Am I understanding this correct:
Frosty and Charles you both recommend: A fan for ventialtion of the shop AND a chimney for the heat source possibly with a second fan to help the airflow. In addtion to this a CO sensor and a flammable gas sensor with an alarm coupled with an exhaust fan. (is this correct?)
Do you think that a smoke hood together with a 14 m³/min (494 CF/min) fan would be enough standard ventilation or do you think that I need a second one?
@Charles R. Stevens did I understand correctly that you are in favour of a coal/charcoal/coaks rather than high pressurised gas? (Btw thinking about what Glenn said - doesnt charcoal burn a lot faster than coaks, I mean expensive?)
For weather I should use gas or coal I did not understand your point @Hans Richter
regardless the firesource there is only one exit (I am pretty shure I missunderstood you there) and why should the smoke emission be a problem WHEN you have a fan (together with a smoke hood) pulling the fumes from the forge into the smoke outlet. So did you mean, that you would not recommend this basement? (the flame killer sounds like another good backup)
Thank you Frosty for this; I think I will be able to transfer this way of doing this to Germany.
@Mikey98118 please don't get me wrong. I am considering a situation where I am - not knowing better - looking down the barrel. And when the ice is that thin I hope to encourage everyone to tell me that I should not walk it. And thinking about such things makes me not lighting up the forge in a basement without advice ( but maybe this is just an oddity of mine)
Have you ever heard the advice never to look down the barrel of a gun? You are considering excepting a situation where all the possible things that can go wrong will leave you on very thin ice; why would you do that?
Charles says that you know what you are doing with basement blacksmith shops. Seeing the pictures - how would you proceed? Do you even think that this place is worth a shot?
Thank you all for the help. It is very much appreciated. Please let me know if using the "@" function in this conext is correcrt use or not.
Banane
PS: Hans: If I ever unwisely choose to ignore Charles " Safety has to be built in, not only to the shop, but into your habits. " and I start running down stairs with glowing iron I'll make sure to take a video as amusement and a "not to" for now I have the option to have everything in the basement or to keep looking for another place.