[TheForge] ON TOPIC: Partitioning Building for smith - WAS: Guns / Politics / BS

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

Andrew Vida wrote:
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> Mark A. Pesetsky wrote:
>> NICE...ty 
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>     Alrighty... Seems an outbuilding may be going up before too much 
> longer.  Pole barn about 36 x 100.  I want the smithy in one corner, 
> but am wondering how to partition it to keep all the soot etc. from 
> filthing up the rest of the house.  I can do the traditional studded 
> partition, but was wondering if anyone knows of something better.
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>     -Andy
So your future house is a pole barn?   As far as keeping smith dust from 
migrating to the rest of the house/pole barn,  one options is to run a 
big ventillation fan to create a low pressure zone in the smithy.   Good 
for a number of reasons, the least of which is migration of dust to the 
rest of the house.   Most of my migration issues are due to a twenty 
year old son that doesn't have the sense to shake the dust off before 
heading into the house.  In the summer I can get a pretty well defined 
soot trail that runs from the forge to the refrigerator.   He can run 
the tanks and the fridge dry in an afternoon of smithing.

Charles