You have to have perfect indoor air quality if you’re going to be working in a woodshop.
If you’re going to run a wood shop like the one that my brother and I run, then you’re going to need to make sure that you have a really good humidifier and a top of the line HVAC system. When we first started out working in our woodshop, we only had a crappy old heating system out there. We didn’t have a humidifier or anything and we started to wonder why some of our pieces were getting warped beyond recognition. When we thought about it, we realized that it was because the thermostat and the humidity in the woodshop weren’t maintaining a regular, consistent temperature most of the time. That sort of thing really messes with the condition of the wood. Of course, since we were basically new at this type of thing, we didn’t know that the heating system and humidity were going to be a problem for us. Now, though, we know that one of the most important things about working with wood is having a really high quality heating and cooling system. You have to have perfect indoor air quality if you’re going to be working in a woodshop. We ended up calling one of the local commercial heating and cooling companies here in town and they were able to get us fixed right up. Now, our woodshop has really great indoor air quality and our projects are turning out better than ever. I guess we should have thought about it before we started up the shop, but I’m glad that the commercial HVAC company was able to help us out.