Hey.
I’m moving my shaping/glassing room out of my basment and into a small commercial space in Brooklyn. I really want to start using polyester and uv cures. The building I’ll be in has a bunch of small spaces, mostly artists, so I need to kill any polyester smell/fumes. I can seal the space no problem and one side of my space is a door to the outside with a 5" vent through the wall so I have plenty of access to the outside air. I was hoping someone has some specs on setting up a proper ventilation system. I checked out the chemical scrubber posting and sounds like it may work. But I need something that will clear the fumes and smells at the same time. Just blowing the air outside won’t work since there are studios with windows out there and they’ll be sucking in fumes. Greatly appreciate any help.
Thanks
Rick.
Will one of these carbon air purifiers do it? I don’t mind blowing some $ if it’ll work. My space is about 200 sqft.
http://www.allerair.com/air-purifiers/air-purifiers-odor-chemical-control.html
I have talked to some of the guys in regards to this issue and they gave me the following advice:
Get two hepa filters and use them as sides to a box. Inside the box should be some activated carbon. Have a fan blowing air through the fillter and activated carbon to the outside world. The activated carbon will adbsorb the chemical smell and fumes.
You may be able to think of a better way to do it but the key is to move the through the activated carbon before it get’s outside.
You will also want something bringing fresh air in as well.
Hope this helps.
Ok. So activated carbon is really gonna kill the smell completely?
Thanks
I may grab this. 30 day money gaurantee. Worth a shot.
http://austinair.com/healthmate.php
I may grab this. 30 day money gaurantee. Worth a shot.
http://austinair.com/healthmate.php
Hey Rick…how are those EPS blanks going? The charcoal (carbon) filters is what we use in the respirators and you don’t detect any resin smell when they are new…once you start smelling fumes, it’s time to replace them. 3M also makes a cheapie mask that is charcoal/carbon lined, but these wear out very fast unless you store them in a zip loc bag and only take them out for use then replace back into the bag. They soak up the impurities in our environment otherwise and wear out quickly due to it.
If you want to keep polyester fumes down to a minimum I would suggest you do a few more things. One would be to build aprons below your glassing rack so it collects drips from going onto the floor. I would suggest you use UV resin and have a light system for curing the resin. Raw resin will permeate your space very quickly unless you can remove resin spills on a regular basis and kick the board off to an inert plastic state when glassing it…plus your turnover will be better, and I’m sure you’ll be happy being able to do it when it’s inclement weather outside.
The other thing to do is to make an air proof box for any resin pots that sit around with your UV resin. I really like using the stuff as it results in sooo much less VOC’s in our environment, and when you sand, the dust isn’t full of MEKP related dust that you end up absorbing.
Hey.
EPS blanks are sitting around right now. I’m unloading a bunch though around Long Island. I still have yet to strigner them up. But working on it.
Space here is premium and usually crowded so I’m trying to get poly to work out. We’ll see. Thanks for the info.
Hey.
EPS blanks are sitting around right now. I’m unloading a bunch though around Long Island. I still have yet to stringer them up. But working on it.
Space here is premium and usually crowded so I’m trying to get poly to work out. We’ll see. Thanks for the info.
this double posting thing is pretty interesting…hmmm…
Just a note, the performance of activated carbon suffers at high humidity.
peace
Chris