Dave Black
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My family shop is an old chicken house, it has cement floors and corrugated aluminum ceiling and plywood over fiberglass insulation for the walls. It is pole building construction. I have a metal shop/welding area in 1 section of the wood shop. I want to move the metal/welding stuff over on the other side of the wall so its not in the woodshop. My Dad has a concern that a stray spark could catch the place on fire, this is a valid concern. My thoughts are: right now the we are making sparks where there is wood dust (I try keep the dust cleaned up when I'm making sparks) and we haven't had a problem yet. Moving the metal stuff in its own area would be better since there won't be wood dust all over so it would be an improvement. I was planning on sheeting corrugated aluminum over the plywood to further sparkproof the walls, at least in the areas where grinding/welding is being done. His concern is that a spark could get under the sheeting and cause a fire. How do you guys that have metal working stuff in your buildings take care of this? Pictures would be great.