Indoors is great I do all my projects indoors.
Just don't use your plumbing for disposing of any of your crete tainted water. These can harden and build up in the plumbing causing serious problems.

I do Hypertufa in my basement in the winter. It does reak havac with the furnace filter so I have to rethink it this winter

Kathy

Hi Kathy
You can find 3 gallon or 5 five gallon buckets at fast food places for free.
They have tight fitting lids.
If you shake all your dry stuff in the bucket you can completely eliminate the dust.

It is hard to completely eliminate the dust. I worked on my kitchen table if I had a project I wanted to do. But I kept my mixes in large containers in the garage. I would slip out, mix the dry ingredients in a 5 gal. bucket, put lid on and bring in to let them get to room temp. Then I would slip outside and mix in the water (mixing was the most dusty!!) and then come in and make stuff on my plastic covered table. I had a huge lidded plastic container with damp sand in the bottom. I would put the piece in there, cover with the lid, and let it cure in the (heated) house so it would not freeze. I kept opening and spray misting the piece. I kept the plastic and other stuff in a covered storage container out in the garage. It was just simple to bring it in, set up my work table in 5 minutes. Play, play play. And put away quickly. I did not have too much of a mess as long as the dry ingredients were not in the house. I am a lifetime crafter, and the winter goes by so quickly if you have something fun to do. (And for some reason, I have always used the kitchen table to work on. It just "feels" right. I tried setting up a craft corner in another room, did not 'feel' right. )I enjoyed my winter 'tufa projects. Summer got so busy, I haven't had much time to 'tufa. Looking forward to the winter!! BB

I would be running up and down the stairs too much and through the house so I guess I will have to put up with the dust. I guess I could maybe cut it in half. Will give the 5 gal buckets some thought. Thanks

Kathy

For BB

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I thought that was TOFU, not TUFA!! Thanks!

I suspect my compost aged Tufa tastes better than most TOFU.:)
BB I dare you to try using blue powdered pigment in your kitchen.
It is horrible stuff. It's is a very fine dust that settles everywhere waiting for the slightest moisture to stain anything it touches. I've ruined a lot of stuff with these nasty pigments.:)

I do projects in the cellar in the winter. The fine cement dust is the horrors; and if there's a hot air furnace it will be circulated throughout the house 'cause the furnace filters usually won't get it all. Since my cellar is unfinshed, I just stuck a small exhaust fan in one of the cellar windows, then tacked up some plastic from the rafters to the floor and made a little sealed room around the window for working on the "dusty parts". The fan sucks that fine cement dust (which you shouldn't be breathing in the first place)outside. The cellar is around 65 degrees or so all winter, so I just wrap my projects up in garbage bags and forget about them until Spring for a good cure. The faucets for the washing machine are in the cellar, so I got a hose at the hardware store that I can run water from there and still leave the washer hooked up -- at first I was running up and down to the kitchen -- admirable to Jack Lanaine maybe, but too savage for me, so I smartened up (eventually) and got the water from the cellar. Maybe this method can work for you too.

Hmmm...didn't think about the dust. Perhaps I can save the mixing for outside and the rest for indoors. Thanks for all the input, I greatly appreciate it