Diy Box Fan Shop Air Filter

The easiest way to make a low cost air cleaner is to just use a cheap box fan with a furnace air filter attached in some way to the inlet side.

Diy box fan shop air filter.

Click show more air filters. The filters sell for about 15. After coughing up a lung i decided to hurry up and make a diy shop air cleaner before my lungs get caked with sawdust. There will be a little arrow on the filter showing which way the air should flow.

This is what i came up with. So anything we can do to remove dust and particulates from the air is a step in the right direction. Can the best diy air cleaner and dust filter be made even better. Want to breathe cleaner air in your home.

Give this inexpensive diy air filter a try. Your total cost for a diy box fan filter can be as low as 40 50 00 including incidentals like duct tape or higher depending on the filter options. This diy air filter is made from a 20 inch box fan plywood and two 20 inch air filters. It is essentially just a wooden box with a blower motor sucking dirty air through a set of filters and blowing out fresh clean air.

Insofar as filter changing costs you will find that it is still much cheaper to buy furnace filters and variants of them without sacrificing on quality or air cleaning capacity. But if you have an air quality emergency on your hands regional wildfires or your charred dinner under the broiler and you have a box fan tape the right sort of filter and no time to get. Some have wondered whether we should tape it onto the back of the box fan filter. Yes it can using scrap plywood.

This diy air filter for wildfire smoke is less than 20. 20 inch box fan. To make one start by buying a merv 13 or fpr 10 furnace filter and tape it to the back of a box fan. Not only would it clean the air but it would also help to keep the shop itself cleaner by catching the dust before it settles.