garage exhaust

[Colonel]

I have a pretty tight garage and quite a few problems with car exhaust. Looking for recommendations on the best way to ventilate using a collection system. Interested in what neat ideas are out there in hoses, blower, hookups, etc.... Garage is about 40x60. Thanks

[Hicktick]

Try the garage journal , they speak all garage things and is a sister site to the barn .

[Aok]

Back in the 70's I use to work in a garage we use a flexible metal hose that went on the tail pipe and vented to the outside. Not a 100% air tight but it helped; however the garage was far from airtight.

[Gary WA]

They do make a hose to slide on to exhaust pipe and send it outside,like a vacuum cleaner hose but can withstand the heat! Service stations use them!

[Jerry in Shasta]

My air conditioning guy gave me a squirrel cage fan out of a heater..I mounted the fan in the louvers at the top of the gables. Then attached a 10 inch a/c flexible duct to the fan, the duct is about 10-12 feet long.

The duct is long enough to lay down at the exhaust pipe of a car. There is enough suction that there is no need to attach it directly to the car.

Then not being used as an exhaust fan , I throw the duct up on the rafters and use it to remove hot air from the upper part of the garage.

[binkbee]

The safest way to do what you ask is "cobble" a small cylindrical drum fan outside and run this "flex hose" that you speak of. to the suction side of the fan. This will break the pressure the car would create in the flex and maintain a vacuum 100% of the operation. Now the "leak" seams would be sucking in.

[JBill]

Whatever you decide to do, I would recommend that you also install a carbon monoxide detector just in case. They cost about the same as a smoke detector. A very little carbon monoxide will make you sick, even if it doesn't kill you! The detectors work.

[steve s]

Originally Posted by JBill

Whatever you decide to do, I would recommend that you also install a carbon monoxide detector just in case. They cost about the same as a smoke detector. A very little carbon monoxide will make you sick, even if it doesn't kill you! The detectors work.

If you do this, let us know how it works. I will be amazed if you are able to rig up any ventilation system that does NOT set off the detector. The detector in our house was always set off by briefly idling our new car (with emission controls) in the attached garage with the garage door open. Finally, had to just toss the detector. hmmmm, maybe that's why I'm like this.

[Kurt in NJ]

I have used a fan made from the remains of a clothes dryer, it had a 4" in, and out, moved a lot of air

[jan bogert]

dryer flex hose and adapt it down to the tail pipe size.