How to turn a Dry Shop Vac into a Wet Shop Vac Part 2- Warsaw, Syracuse, Goshen and Columbia City

This is a brief training video that we show all of our new employees who we train to become professional painters. In this short video, we demonstrate how to switch a Shop Vac set up for vacuuming dry material into a Wet Vac for vacuuming up water or spilled paint. Although we cover all of our floors with drop cloths here at Matthews Painting, there are times the inevitable happens and we spill paint. This video will explain how we get that paint up out of the carpet.
Matthews' Painting Company, LLC
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matthewspainting.com/
8055 E 500 N
Leesburg, IN 46538

[@laurabarber6697]

Clear, concise and easy-to-understand at summation mark and the question below someone asked about do you need the phone filter. And your answer was no not unless you're vacuuming up what degrees. I appreciate it thank you

[@Matthewspainting]

You bet.

[@mikeypotts4732]

Thank you! I thought a foam sleeve was absolutely necessary but don't have one right now. Glad to have found your video. Thanks!

[@Matthewspainting]

My pleasure.

[@redyeti7371]

Thanks very much! My furnace sprung a leak and I had a lot of water to vacuum up, this video told me what to do!

[@Matthewspainting]

Glad to help Chad.

[@jerrypeay584]

Exactly the video I needed to watch! Thank you!

[@Matthewspainting]

Good to hear.

[@maplemouse4674]

very clear and simple and to the point. You, sir, are an excellent instructor

[@Matthewspainting]

Thank you.

[@sardineRN]

Thanks! Exactly what I needed.

[@Matthewspainting]

My pleasure Sarah.

[@msterigirl]

Simple and to the point. Perfect!

[@Matthewspainting]

My pleasure!

[@kazak8114]

Thank you. You answer all my questions!

[@Matthewspainting]

My pleasure.

[@michaellockwood6100]

I've been looking for a reason to take that little ball out. Because after I vacuum for a second, it sucks the ball up. Now I know the balls just there for a safety measure and case it tips over. It's been so hard. Find the video on how to fix that ball from sucking up. Now I know I don't need. The ball said how I can't find out why it's sticking, so I'll take it out.

[@Matthewspainting]

Glad this helped.

[@kuvrd]

Dude, perfect video. Thank you.

[@Matthewspainting]

My pleasure.

[@jonathonmoores9137]

Thank you I couldn’t find anyone to put a video like this

[@Matthewspainting]

My pleasure Jonathon.

[@stephenzucal483]

Thank you very much, very good tutorial thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@Matthewspainting]

My pleasure. Glad the video was helpful.

[@neilbenjamin9028]

Learned from this. Thx

[@Matthewspainting]

My pleasure Neil.

[@TheTech660]

Thanks for this!

[@Matthewspainting]

My plesure.

[@username2516]

GREAT VID BRO

[@Matthewspainting]

Thank you!

[@Spain42]

Thank you !

[@Matthewspainting]

My pleasure.

[@jonathonmoores9137]

I need information though on sucking up large amounts of water and what I have to do in preparation to protect the shop vac and not electrocute myself

[@Matthewspainting]

Always make sure the ground plug is there and make sure you are using an outlet that is grounded. Inspect cord for any damage. Remove the cloth filter and cloth dust bag if there is one on your vacuum. Now you are set up to suck up water. (If your vacuum came with a foam sleeve put that on where the filter was removed.)

[@TheZephyr2000]

Hi, I have a Dewalt wet/dry vac, which doesn't come with s sleeve lime other brands do. Should I just remove the cartridge as you have shown, and vacum up the water? Thansk in advance.

[@Matthewspainting]

Foam sleeves are best, but we have never needed them.

[@rayearnings]

Shouldn't there be a foam filter to slide over the intake, for wet vac ops?

[@Matthewspainting]

Yes, those can be helpful to catch debris, but as you noticed, they do work without one in emergency situations like this.

[@hutzman7664]

@@Matthewspainting it keeps water from shooting out the exhaust so please put the foam filter on.

[@J.Starkweather]

The water doesn't interfere with the "engine" inside when you have no sleeve on it?

[@briellehunter7233]

Mine got ruined that way.

[@Matthewspainting]

Thank you for your reply. We personally have not ruined a shop vac without a foam sleeve, but a foam sleeve is best. We typically convert this over from dry vac to wet vac quickly when we have a water base paint spill. When this happens, we are in our work environment where a foam sleeve is not around. I wanted to create a real life video for our painters on what to do quickly if we spilled paint that got either went off the edge of a drop cloth or spilled on a floor that was not covered. If you have a foam sleeve (and you have the time to get it) go for it. :)

[@laurabarber6697]

I ended up here because I was looking to find out how to use a mini wet dry Shop-Vac to clean a spot off my furniture using an extraction method.

[@Gravy_Master]

Truly fascinating story Miss Barber. Thank you for sharing with us.

[@Matthewspainting]

Glad I could help!

[@Matthewspainting]

Hope it helped Laura.

[@teresaeljinini7850]

Where is the foam sleeve?

[@Matthewspainting]

We have never needed the foam sleeve Teresa, but it would probably be a good idea to have that on.

[@elymendoza5291]

He said wetvak😲🤭

[@Matthewspainting]

Correct! You can turn a Shop Vac (that is set up to vacuum up dry debris) into a Wet Vac (by remove the filter and dust bag.)