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

[Andrew Vida]

xlch58 at swbell.net wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>     -Andy
> So your future house is a pole barn?  

	No.  For that I will need a fairly stiff funding.  Considering earth 
sheltered into the side of the mountain.  have to find out about how 
good the soil is here for it... drainage and all that.  I figure 
ferrocement on a timber frame or some such.  The idea is still 
Jello-like... much like my brain.

 > 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. 

	Clearly you have failed to beat the child sufficiently.  Parents these 
days...

 > 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.

	That's too funny.  Some things never change.

	I was also thinking of movable partitions... screens if you will.  One 
horizontal at eave-level (12 or 16') and some movable verticals.  Add to 
that the positive pressure you mention and perhaps that would be enough.