Thinking of turning my basement into my workshop (getting the boat out will be a good story). It will be a space about 11ft by 30ft. I have to be concerned though with dust collection. My furnace and water heater are in the basement (in another room) but a huge air intake is sucking air right out of my future workshop. So I am concerned about how to set up a dust collection system that actually does what it says it will do.

My Woodcraft Catalog is loaded with dust collection doo-dads. My chief worry is getting a good fit around a router and a table saw. I can't for the life of me see how any dust collection system could cope with a thickness planer but I need to deal with that too somehow.

How do you guys handle this? I have a very sweet wife and I'd really like to keep her that way - HELP!

TIA Tim Eastman