How Switch It Up keeps the sanding dust down at Cypress Landing with BLOWZER
Todd and Sheila of Switch It Up are rebuilding Cypress Landing RV Park on Gantt Lake, Alabama. While unboxing gifts in the barn, Todd brings out the BLOWZER X6 he has been using to blow dust off hundreds of sanded picnic-table boards.
Switch It Up received a BLOWZER X6 from us.
Two RVers and a park of their own
Switch It Up is Todd and Sheila, full-time RVers whose channel started as a life on the road and has become something bigger. They are now building and renovating Cypress Landing RV Park on the shore of Gantt Lake in south Alabama, and their audience is following every board and bolt.
This video is the third round of unboxing. Viewers and partners have sent the park everything from a fire extinguisher for the boats to tools and upgrades, and the barn is stacked with boxes. Todd and Sheila open them one by one in front of the volunteer crew.
A box he had already opened
Ten minutes in, Todd finds a note: thanks for giving the blower a try, and curiosity about what uses they'll find for it "around that monster of a rig". He admits he couldn't wait. He opened the BLOWZER X6 the day it arrived because they were in the middle of a job, and Sheila has been asking why he's so excited about it.
He holds the box up to the camera. "Get ready to be blown away," he says, switches it on, and points it at himself. "This is the most amazing thing."
Four hundred boards and a lot of dust
The reason he's excited is the park's biggest job right now. The crew is sanding what Todd reckons are 400-plus boards for new picnic-table tops, plus stacks of cross beams, legs and supports, all of it waiting to be stained. Every sanded board needs the dust off before the stain goes on.
"We can use that for blowing off all the stuff we're sanding," Todd says, and the love bugs too, the swarms that coat everything outdoors in the Gulf South at certain times of year. He ran it until the battery was flat and charged it again over USB-C. Then he shows the crew the case and the attachments and says they plan to give some away at their next event.
The segment ends the way a good barn meeting should. Todd turns the X6 on his own hair in front of the seated crew, it stands straight up, and everybody laughs. "All right, that was unsolicited," he says.
Why it matters on a big build
On a project this size, dust is a daily chore, not a one-off. Sanded boards, stain stands, benches and tools all collect it, and a stain coat locks in whatever is left. A cordless blower that lives in a case, swaps between five interchangeable nozzles and charges from the same USB-C cable as a phone makes that chore quick enough to do every time.
For anyone fixing up a campground, a cabin or a deck, the order is the one Todd landed on: sand, blow the dust off, then stain.
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Questions readers ask
Can an air duster clear sanding dust off boards before staining?
Yes. Blow the loose dust off each board and out of the grain before the stain goes on. The X6 starts at 40K RPM for light dust and goes up to 130K for packed corners.
How do you recharge the X6 at a job site?
Over USB-C, from any USB-C charger. Charging has auto-shutoff.
Does the X6 come with attachments?
Yes. It comes with five interchangeable nozzles in a zippered case.
About the creator
Switch It Up @SwitchItUpLife
Switch It Up is Todd and Sheila, full-time RVers who traded the usual routine for life in a custom rig and are now building Cypress Landing RV Park on Gantt Lake, Alabama.
Switch It Up received a BLOWZER X6 from us.