Sanding hardwood floors used to be a dust nightmare. Not anymore!
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The Old Way
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Airborne wood dust, a known carcinogen, is a hazard that is completely unneccesary.
With Bona's dust containment systems, there's no airborne dust generated to permeate a home or business. It's a healthier environment and cleans up what used to be an extremely dusty process.
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The Dust Free Way
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The Value of a 27 Horse Power Dust Containment System
  Attached to all sanding equipment results in:
Increased customer satisfaction - virtually eliminates the nightmare of dust throughout the home or business.
Higher quality results - by eliminating airborne dust that would otherwise settle back down into the finish.
Healthier indoor air quality - wood dust is a known carcinogen.
No time consuming plastic to hang
No costly clean-up The Bona System is the First and Only GREENGUARD-certified System.
Refinishing with GREENGUARD-tested products from the Bona Environmental Choice System™(ECS) is certified for indoor air quality. From effective dust containment to low-VOC, high performance waterborne finishes without harmful fumes, to non-toxic floor care products and systems, the Bona system offers the cleanest and healthiest hardwood floor finishing system available. Click here for more information on the BonaKemi ECS system.
 The GREENGUARD Environmental Institute is an industry-independent, non-profit organization that establishes standards and testing for indoor products. Their goal is to improve public health by helping manufacturers build safer products. These products will not pollute the air with harmful levels of dangerous chemicals or particulates.
Bona Hardwood and Hard Surface Floor Cleaners and systems have also passed the more stringent GREENGUARD Children and Schools Program indoor air quality criteria.
Air Quality Sciences, Inc., in Atlanta, conducted laboratory testing of the sanding process in a controlled environment to accurately gauge the amount of airborne wood dust particles generated when using traditional equipment (using bags on the sander and edger, and a non-DCS buffer) and when using the same machines attached to an Atomic DCS® trailer and a portable Atomic® 110.
 Some significant results of the testing included these facts:
• Sanding without dust containment generates airborne dust over 22 times the OSHA level of 1 mg/m3
• Sanding with the Atomic trailer generates only .045 mg/ m3 - 95% below the OSHA level
• The Atomic trailer generates 99.8% less dust than traditional sanding.
It is important to emphasize that this percentage of 99.8% is a comparison of Atomic® dust containment to sanding with traditional equipment. Also, testing was with Bona machines (Bona Belt, Bona Edgers and Bona DCS Buffer) that are engineered specifically for effective dust containment and work as part of the complete Bona system.
The Traditional Sanding Process is a Threat to Your Health
When sanding without DCS, the wood dust particle count is over 20 times the OSHA limit, resulting in an unnecessary threat to your health and an inconvenient mess.
Data provided by Air Quality Sciences, Inc. © 2005
OSHA Limit of 1 mg/mg3 - ACGIH Worldwide, a governing body for occupational exposures.
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