DIY AirFilter

April has been sanding in the garage.  The thought of all the wood dust, polyurithane particles, and other who-knows-what floating in the air got me to thinking what it would take to filter large quantities of air without spending too much.

While walking down the isles at Walmart I noticed an inexpensive 20x20 box fan for $17 and thought it was too bad that they didn't have one with an air filter attached to it.  Two isles over I also noticed the air filters for central home heading and air conditioning units.  My curiosity piqued, I checked to see if they had a 20x20 electrostatic air filter and found they had some.

So for $17 for a box fan, $2.75 for the filter and about 4 feet of duct tape, I made a dust filter.

Here are some pictures of it.  It took all of 10 minutes to assemble.  Here is the side the air exits

and here is the side the air enters, the filter side

I'm not sure how well this will work compared to the other air filters that I've seen in the stores that cost $100 and up; however, I don't need silent operation, ionic breeze, or a tilting swivel base.  What I need is to clean epic volumes of air quickly and for as little $$$ as possible.

I think this'll do the trick.  I'll keep everyone posted.

Tonight was our Family night (Monday) so we took a break from working on the kitchen and took our son Richard with us to the South Jordan Rec. Center for a little cardio work-out.  It was a good break.

I was able to get the Electrical permits from the South Jordan City Hall.  I hope to finish rerouting the 220 Volt lines and schedule an inspection for Thursday so we can begin to drywall on Friday.