I'm seeing that several of you cast in your basement. How much of an issue is ventilation ? I do all of my casting in the winter months (meaning cold) in my garage. I have a vent hood rigged up in one of the windows, so I never had to worry about ventilation.
The problem is, I have to run a kerosene heater to keep warm, plus I have to break down my setup each time due to the fact that others in my family are in the garage at various times. I've been thinking about setting up in the basement since I'm the only one that goes down there. I already have my workshop, reloading room, and everything else I do set up down there. But I worry about not having the ventilation hood. I suppose I could rig one up, but that won't be anytime soon (too little time, too much to do.)
I would still do all of my WW melting and mixing out of doors on heavy melting equipment. I'm talking strictly casting bullets out of my premixed ingots with electric pots.
Any input ?