JangoTrooper
Established Member
Hi all,
I work in a single car garage for my woodworking hobby.
Within my garage I work with softwoods and hardwoods. I have a compound mitre saw, bandsaw, Scrollsaw along with the usual diy tools etc. Along with dealing with these wood dusts I do deal with solvents for cleaning and finishing wood such as acrylic spray paints, sealers, waxes, water based stains.
I have a record power vacuum cleaner and extractor unit when I work in my wood workshop. I’m wearing a full head visor when working with saw dusts.
I have a closed window, single garage door with a side door to the rear of my garage.
Due to the winter times I tend to keep the doors shut for heating reason. As for the summer I keep the doors shut due to nuisance of flies, such as wasps and bees entering. The wasps and bees can create a hazard for me whilst working.
I’m finding due to working in my garage for a certain length of time in the day that the next day I’m suffering from headaches/migraines. This I believe is down to solvent, chemicals.
Besides the obvious solutions, taking regular outside breaks, (which I can get lost in the garage projects) and opening of garage doors (which lets nuisance flies in as already mentioned) along with my younger daughter entering which can cause a hazard to her along with a distraction to me thus creating a potential hazard.
Does anybody have these kind of similar issues?
What solutions have you come up with?
I believe a local exhaust ventilation (lev) may be ideal solution for me.
I have a flat pitched roof, some day I would like to replace the garage roof with a better pitched roof system.
Does anybody have any solutions? Pictures would be of great interest or items that create the solution and to where I can buy the item from. Even projects in this forum would be advantageous to bench mark off if possible.
Phew a lengthy post, sorry!
I work in a single car garage for my woodworking hobby.
Within my garage I work with softwoods and hardwoods. I have a compound mitre saw, bandsaw, Scrollsaw along with the usual diy tools etc. Along with dealing with these wood dusts I do deal with solvents for cleaning and finishing wood such as acrylic spray paints, sealers, waxes, water based stains.
I have a record power vacuum cleaner and extractor unit when I work in my wood workshop. I’m wearing a full head visor when working with saw dusts.
I have a closed window, single garage door with a side door to the rear of my garage.
Due to the winter times I tend to keep the doors shut for heating reason. As for the summer I keep the doors shut due to nuisance of flies, such as wasps and bees entering. The wasps and bees can create a hazard for me whilst working.
I’m finding due to working in my garage for a certain length of time in the day that the next day I’m suffering from headaches/migraines. This I believe is down to solvent, chemicals.
Besides the obvious solutions, taking regular outside breaks, (which I can get lost in the garage projects) and opening of garage doors (which lets nuisance flies in as already mentioned) along with my younger daughter entering which can cause a hazard to her along with a distraction to me thus creating a potential hazard.
Does anybody have these kind of similar issues?
What solutions have you come up with?
I believe a local exhaust ventilation (lev) may be ideal solution for me.
I have a flat pitched roof, some day I would like to replace the garage roof with a better pitched roof system.
Does anybody have any solutions? Pictures would be of great interest or items that create the solution and to where I can buy the item from. Even projects in this forum would be advantageous to bench mark off if possible.
Phew a lengthy post, sorry!
