I have an unfinished basement. It would be a great place for a workshop but some hobbies don’t do well in a dusty environment. Would setting up an air purifier help? Even then I’m concerned it wouldn’t get the entire volume of air.
One idea is to just cover the area in a tarp (or something more permanent) while not in use.
I hate to tidy up and will very likely forget even if I don’t get lazy and I don’t want to have stuff get dusty because it’s laying out for a while.
I assume the dust is coming from the rafters when we walk around upstairs but I’m not certain.
The hobbies are pretty varied. Electronics (like Arduinos), sewing, painting, etc. Nothing crazy like woodworking or metalworking which create their own dust though. The dust is just the normal dust you see in basements lol.
I would wash the floors and walls to get rid of any dust that is present. Then I would make a room out of plastic sheets. Finally, I would put use a 20" box fan with a 20" furnace filter taped to it to clear the air of dust.
Thanks for the advice!
I have a pretty powerful ‘exhaust fan’ that I repurposed exactly this way and.it works way better than my previous box fan did. As in, after kicking up dust with my table saw the airborne dust is clered in less than 10 minutes. Of course, there’s still dust on the surfaces.
I built a box around the fan, and I have it suck air through a coconut choir filter, then a allergy ac filter. I put a removable frame around the filter to block air from going around and let me change it, but other than vacuuming the front I’ve not had to do anything to the filter. It is kind of loud, but I put a dimmer on the power cord and I can turn it down. I generally use it while/after I make a lot of dust, and I have a timer turn it on at night when no one is around to hear the noise.