Hi everyone! 

I'm about to move my home-based workshop to a new location and have started to plan the layout (in my head). The new workshop will be located in a smaller "shed" with pretty low ceiling-height but it has a second floor attic with enough room for small machinery and a workbench.
My plan is to place the heavier machinery: Table-saw, band-saw and planer, downstairs (ground-level).
I'm thinking about putting the dust-collector (1hp) in the attic and box it in for noise-reasons.
My question is if the placement of the DC "above" the heavy machinery will affect the performance of dc much? My concern is the "lift-height" of approx. 2,5m. Added to that a few meters of flexible pipe.

Regards

Festoolviking

"In" Put that outside. If it's outside you don't need micro bags on it, it can be very close to your machines, and you can back a truck up to it if it's designed to dump into one.

The attic would be ok if you had very low ceilings. Otherwise you're going to lose suction and probably spread particles.

You want short lines, and the least amount of flexible lines as possible. Hard turns and up in the sky mountings are two of the worst things. This may help you.

Ok, if it looks like the best place for the DC is on the upper floor, then I would be looking at crossing all the T's and think about any other possible issues like the vibration, what type of floor have you got on the upper level, also by being up high will this create more acoustics and add to the overall noise.