baze7 Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 How many have there woodshop in a basement? I am getting ready to move, and my new house has an unfinished basement, and was wondering if I should put my tools in the basement. How dusty does it make the rest of the house? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jer7440 Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 (edited) I have my shop in my unfinished basement. For me, the two biggest considerations are dust and noise. Other than those issues I love having my shop indoors! The only thing better might be a heated garage. The dust collector is your friend! You also want to make sure any dust is isolated from your central heating and cooling system, otherwise it will just plug up your filters and blow the dust all over your house. Your best bet is a decent plan for dust collection. Edited October 18, 2005 by jer7440 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanb Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 I couldn't agree more. If you are going to do much of this kind of work, you will quickly find that you absolutely must have a good dust collector -- regardless of where your shop is located. You will have dust all over the basement all of the time, no matter how hard you try, but it isn't really a problem for the rest of the house as long as you don't have air return inlets in the basement. Noise would be a bigger problem if that is objectionable to others in your house. Short of a dedicated building, a basement shop is about as good as it gets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 My "poor man's basement shop dust collection system" : Basement stairs have carpet on them. As I walk up the stairs, the carpet removes the dust from the bottom of my shoes. Bottom stair is very dusty. Top stair is pretty clean. So what would that be , like an 8 step filtration system ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegarehanman Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 I have a dust collector I use for my bandsaw and router table. My main dust "remover" is a 3/4hp leaf blower and an open garage door. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmanpoe Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 Here is a cheap, quiet dust collector plan. Dust collector Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davis guitars Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 My "poor man's basement shop dust collection system" : Basement stairs have carpet on them. As I walk up the stairs, the carpet removes the dust from the bottom of my shoes. Bottom stair is very dusty. Top stair is pretty clean. So what would that be , like an 8 step filtration system ? ha ha i love it thats what i do 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted May 26, 2006 Report Share Posted May 26, 2006 Yeah, I got it good back "home". Here in Germany, my "workshop" is a corner of the kitchen. So, this morning me and the wife are sitting at the kitchen table and my wife says : " So are we eating sawdust right now ? " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLRSHOP Posted May 26, 2006 Report Share Posted May 26, 2006 (edited) My shop is in the back 1/3 of the basement. You have to go through the "man room" to get to it. You know a couch, a couple of chairs, big screen tv, drums and all the guitar stuff. I made sure the walls are sealed at the floor and ceiling, the door has weather stripping on it and I have small dust collector. But the one thing that has kept the next room the cleanest are my shop shoes. Actually there just a pair of slip on sandels that never leave the shop. That way I don't track any sawdust out the door. I get comfortable when I work in there. Edited May 26, 2006 by RLRSHOP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frazzled Posted June 4, 2006 Report Share Posted June 4, 2006 My shop is in the basement too and I also use the 'carpeted stairs' method. My wife is finally getting used to the sawdust in the dirty clothes hamper too! Don't restaraunts use sawdust for burger filler? I bet some sugar maple would be goood... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spazzyone Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 if your your base ment was as wet as mine you need do nothing it just would stick to the walls and floor ha.ha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 There's this one spot in my basement where rain water will come down the wall if it rains hard for a couple of days. That limited my options of what to put in that spot, but finally I realized I could put some of those metal shelves there (those bolt together kind that you see everywhere). I water-proofed the feet of the shelf units by putting round plastic spice jar lids under the feet. Pretty much lids just like these. http://www.ofo.ca/photos/digijarslids.jpg I could also saw the end off the clear plastic jars as well, for the same purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickguard Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 My dust collection system is called Sunday afternoon. I work in the old barn attached to my house> Half of the barn has been renovated and is now my office (or man room ...giggle), the other half is just an unfinished stone structure with a roof and a cement floor. So there's dust whether I make it or not. But I spend a lot of time working on the floor of my office anyway, so there's still some dust. Don't know why I like to work on the floor, I just do. I ought to take a photo...the floor is filled with parts of guitars and pieces of wood and rulers. I plan on fixing up the rest of the barn this summer, once my current builds are done...but I'm going to keep that big open door...and find me a leaf blower... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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