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Keeping living area stink free

Sumboodie

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What's the best way to keep an apartment in a shop free of any shop fumes?

I have in mind a vent fan in the shop that would be making negative pressure. Perhaps a passive air intake in the apartment, though that may be a challenge when it's cold out.
 
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Check your man card if you don't like the smell of your shop 😆.
Ventilation and good exterior doors along with a tight wall.
I'm married to a woman that would shame a blood hound, she rarely complains and I have a 17'x38' wall shared with the shop.
 
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You could use a ERV. Pull air from the shop and return it to the apartment.
Interesting thought. If you'll be air conditioning, an ERV makes sense. If not, an HRV makes more sense. Keep in mind that both neither deals well with dust in the air, so exhausting shop air may become an issue unless you add a filter.

For those not aware, these have two air inlets and two outlets, with an inlet and outlet outside and another pair inside. The idea is normally to exhaust bad air from inside, while simultaneously taking in fresh air from outside in a balanced way so that air doesn't get pulled through other openings in your structure (unlike a plain exhaust fan). The HRV uses a heat exchanger to minimize heat exchange with the outside, while the ERV also handles humidity, so they can be run continuously with minimal heating/cooling costs too.

In your use case, the ERV/HRV would be exhausting shop air, and pulling in the replacement air into the apartment. This would have the apartment at a higher pressure than the shop, driving a flow of air from the apartment into the shop.
 
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Sumboodie

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Check your man card if you don't like the smell of your shop 😆.
Ventilation and good exterior doors along with a tight wall.
I'm married to a woman that would shame a blood hound, she rarely complains and I have a 17'x38' wall shared with the shop.
This is an apartment inside the shop.
 

BillK

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Maybe a very small inlet for outside air with a small heater in it to help warm the air up in the winter ? Are you heating the apartment separately from the shop ?
 
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