i was in the same state as you last winter building an OI in my basement.my wife , who can smell anything from a mile away , and complain about it agreed to let me do the first coat. if she could smell it and it bothered her i'd have to sent her to her parents in florida for a week, while i finished. well she never even notice and even came down to watch at times. this was in a small basement with only one window and a series of 2-3 fans exhausting the air overnight till the next coat.needless to say , i didn't have to send her but the in-laws came to new york for 3 weeks later. maybe i should have started with a small can of bondo frist , LOL.

ps i was using raki epoxy

: That would be great if it didn't smell, I might even be able to talk my
: parents into letting me fiberglass in the basement. Is that normal for
: epoxy not to smell? I have only done small fiberglass repair on sailboats,
: using a small container bought a hardware store, probably bondo, and it
: smells horribele... maybe polyester? But will epoxy based systems not
: really smell that bad?