dummy instructions for setting up an indoor studio

[Bricklend]

I have a laundry/mud/office space with a door with a screen on it. I am using a HH. What is the bare minimum that I need to be safe inside?

[Dale M.]

You need to have any propane tank larger the #1 OUTSIDE....

You can only store 2, #1 propane tanks indoors per national fire codes...

You need to have enough ventilation to insure all the byproducts from the combustion processes (carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides) and heavy metals given off by heating the glass are drawn outside where the can be diluted and absorbed by nature.... This ventilation also includes makeup air equal to the amount of contaminated air your ventilation is drawing out of studio...

Keep any flammables, solvent, clothing, way from torch...

Have safe exit path away for torch area incase of fires or severe burn injury...

Fire extinguisher is not a bad idea also...And not just because of "glass studio"...

Dale

[Bricklend]

You need to have any propane tank larger the #1 OUTSIDE....

You can only store 2, #1 propane tanks indoors per national fire codes...

You need to have enough ventilation to insure all the byproducts from the combustion processes (carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides) and heavy metals given off by heating the glass are drawn outside where the can be diluted and absorbed by nature.... This ventilation also includes makeup air equal to the amount of contaminated air your ventilation is drawing out of studio...

Keep any flammables, solvent, clothing, way from torch...

Have safe exit path away for torch area incase of fires or severe burn injury...

Fire extinguisher is not a bad idea also...And not just because of "glass studio"...

Dale

I use a BBQ style tank, is that safe indoors if I have ventilation? And by ventilation, do I need a system or a window/screen door?

[Lorraine Chandler]

The bare minimum is stronger than needed ventilation to be safe, preferable an exhaust to the outside system, replacement air, tank outside which means hoses in through a propped open screen door or piped in through a wall, fire extinguisher and as Dale said an escape route. If there is a hot water heater in the room for the W/D you might want to reconsider?
Lorraine