Is the following setup safe for a finishing/spray room?
The idea is to avoid the need for explosion proof fans, light switches, etc. and just use ambient light from the window.
- Partition off an 8x10 room in my shop, totally enclose it with paneling or drywall. One wall is a shop exterior wall.
- Nothing electrical in the room
- Install a window to the outside on the one shop exterior wall
- Install a fan on one of the walls interior to the shop, but exterior to spray room, blowing filtered air into the room, with exhaust going out the window. (kind of like a whole house fan, but in reverse)
- Spray oil based finishes via HVLP keeping the turbine outside of the spray room (run the hose through a sealed hole in the wall.
Am I nuts?