Dust

We had noticed in the atelier that since we had been up there painting our Christmas cards it had become very dusty. In fact the dust had built up quite heavily all down the stairwell as well. I thought it was quite an unusually fast build up, and actually quite sooty. Brian had noticed a small exhaust in the back of the pellet boiler that he felt might be responsible for some soot buildup around the floor at the back. We hadn’t really paid too much attention to it previously, but now that he had mentioned it we thought that maybe that was responsible. Brian had boarded up the area where the boiler and silo were fitted, to held keep the atelier warm, and he thought maybe that had prevented an airflow that help the exhaust work, and that the fine dust from the the back of the boiler was now making its way up to the atelier rather than out of the chimney.

our first intervention was to put a container under the exhaust to try and catch most of the dust. We then allowed a small hole back in the opposite wall to allow some airflow back in. Then we decided we needed to board off the edge of the stairs, so as not to allow the dust to have a clear line of access to float up to the atelier. This is what Brian has started to do today. It’s great that he has been able to go out to his work area and find all the wood he needs in his wood store to complete the job.