Looking to get your opinions on venting laser smoke.
We recently moved our shop home to our home workshop because 95% of our orders are online and it didn't make sense for retail store overhead.
So now we are venting directly outside our home with no filtration. This is in a residential area.
We do mostly wood, leather products.
This has worked good in the winter because nobody is outside. However, as the warmer weather approaches us here in Canada,
more and more of our neighbors will be outside enjoying the weather. This will quickly become a problem.
I don't want to lease another space because of crazy overhead. We have a great setup here
and I would LOVE to figure out a solution to stay here for the time being.
What do you guys suggest?
I've come up with a few ideas.
1.) Buy a filtration unit that does not vent outside and possibly need a lot of filter changes (because of wood).
2.) Continue to vent out side but run through activated carbon filter - or array of carbon filters? Not sure if this would do much given the amount of smoke?
Also note: I'm willing to spend a fair amount to make this problem go away... considering leasing a building would be an easy $1,500 per month CAD.
Just need something that will work...
Has anyone any experience with doing filtration units and wood and how often you would have to change filters and costs involved?
any ideas?
Thanks
Kirk