nhguy wrote:GinaC wrote:Buy her a fan.
Our carriage house is a shared studio/shop space. My wife has her studio for art and I have a shop for welding, woodworking or whatever kind of mischief I feel like getting into. Sometimes I use some pretty stinky stuff in there. I have learned to have the exhaust fan on most all the time, especially when my bride is busy in her space. It makes for a happy relationship.
Yep, this should be minimum safe practice! However, in reality, it's pretty much the ideal.
My workshop will be in the front part of my garage, which is my basement, so I'll be doing the stinky stuff right under the kitchen. I plan to keep the garage door open and just set up a few fans blowing out. I'm lucky that there's one operable window there as well, so if I really want to work on something when it's cold outside, I can just put the fan in the window.