Article on shop design.

["Bill Weissinger" <Bill@zzzzzzzzzzzzzz>]

Julianna, I have added you to the list of those who will get a copy of the
article when it is available.  As to your question on setting up a stone
studio in your basement, others on the List may have better ideas, but one
of my friends has separated off a "dirty" room for stone work from the rest
of her studio by dividing it into two areas, using Plexiglas walls.  The
entry into the "dirty room" is though a vinyl strip door.  The dirty room
has an exhaust fan on one outside wall, and furnace filters built into the
interior Plexiglas walls.  A fan exhausts the
dirty air from your stone work outside, and in the process sucks clean air
 from the clean room [which would be your laundry area, I assume) into the
room through the filters.   If you are worried about the effect upon your
neighbors of the dust exhausted out, letters in the List archives describe
various techniques to deal with that, which I touch on lightly in the
article I'll be sending you.   I expect you could modify this idea for your
basement, although whether or not it would keep the clean room clean enough
for a laundry room I don't know.  I can ask my
friend if you like whether her clean room stays laundry-room clean with this
system.  Depending upon what  your heating system is, for this system to
work you may have to be heating-bill-tolerant.  Good luck.

Bill