Best material for creating a dust barrier

[Seb101]

What's the best (i.e. cheapest for an effective solution) material for creating a dust barrier in a room?

Basically I'm smashing down the en-suite partition wall and completely renovating it, but still want to be able to sleep in the bedroom without developing respiratory problems

Thick polythene seems to be the best thing I've found, but it's relatively expensive.

 

[tomfe]

Use a small bit of that thick polythene to cover your face when you sleep save all that money.
Or use some thinner polythene like temporary floor protection about £15 for 100m².
Or go and get some second hand bed sheets(errk)

 

[Chud]

How big is the barrier you need to create?

http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Han...ing+&+Waste+Bags/sd430/Polythene+Sheet/p25592

 

[JohnD]

I honestly think you would do better to sleep elsewhere.

I have used thin poly dustsheet attached to the ceiling and walls with tape, but there is bound to be some passage of dust. It will also be falling off your clothes, hair and soles of your feet.

Wrap everything in the room, and put a dustsheet over your bed if you can't take it into a different room. Builders dust is very pernicious and will find its way into drawers and wardrobes, and will collect on architraves and lampshades, and fall into the air for months until you deep clean. If it gets into your TV or PC, they will be irrepairable.

Don't use your domestic hoover, which be damaged, get a wet and dry canister vac.

 

[Newboy]

A large painters (fabric) dust sheet wrapped around a length of CLS and then pushed up against the ceiling with a couple of props/deadmen.