Best portable fan or blower for garage?

[gkainz]

Who's got the best solution for clearing fumes and garage work kind of smells out of the garage and keep them from filtering up to anger the wife mode?
Thinking maybe the floor dryers the flood restoration guys use - stick the snout under the rollup door, and lower the door to just on top of that?
Other ideas?

 

[Stewartb]

A few years back I built a panel the take the bottom couple of feet of a coiling door opening. The panel had two box fans built in and the coiling door closed to the panel. That served as the exhaust air for a visquine paint booth and it worked great.

 

[Shawn]

Been there...the floor dryers are good for blowing air in under pressure, not sucking air out in mass.

You really need a 24" or better version of a floor fan like below. Tractor Supply has them and the key is to crack a window to get the cross ventilation going otherwise you will just suck air from immediately around the fan and not ventilate the room.

 

[Checkout_my_Six]

big arse fans are nice....

 

[Blatham489]

In addition, you might try sealing off (caulk or foam) each outlet, switch box and junction box and don’t forget under the bottom edge of the drywall by the floor. Think hermetically sealed. Then paint the walls with a semi- or gloss enamel. Your clothes are bringing a fair amount of stink into the house as well.

 

[kyleb]

I painted my RV-6 in the garage. To clear the overspray and fumes, I raised the garage door a couple of feet and placed 3 cheapie box fans under the door pointing outward. To avoid recirculating the same air, I filled the rest of the space at the bottom of the door by leaning pieces of plywood (IIRC) up against the door from the inside.

Quick and easy.

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

These suck (and not in a good way) as dust collectors, but they do move a lot of air - just take the bag off and put a hose on the inlet or outlet.
https://www.harborfreight.com/13-gallon-industrial-portable-dust-collector-31810.html

 

[sarangan]

This is what I did. Its kinda inefficient in the winter, but works great otherwise.