Reducing residual smell of burnt wood

[dwardio]

There are many approaches to this, and most of the involve containment (@Jules’ tip about masking is spot on) or ventilating your workspace. After struggling with this for a year, I went for the nuclear option.

Re-vamped venting setup

For over a year, Trogdor and then Arges were ventilated with the tried-and-true dryer hose out the window method. My workshop is in the basement, so the only way to vent outside was out through a window well… [IMG_1363] For a variety of reasons, I wasn’t 100% satisfied with this setup. Do you know how hard it is to make an egress window air-tight?:tired_face: Over the past few months, I decided that exhausting out and up past our roofline was the way to go. Not only would it keep the exhaus…

The more reasonable approach is to add a booster fan to your exhaust run and continue to ventilate after the GF is finished.

Best of luck!