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Parent may be imagining a carpeted apartment, which would make cleanup more difficult.

When I was in such a location I used silicone project mats with raised edges fastidiously to avoid ever dripping on the carpet.



Yes that's what I was thinking of after leaving my own comment, but it's a lot less common outside of the US. I have wooden floors.

Otherwise I would definitely either avoid it entirely or cover the whole floor area one way or another.


Carpet or cracks between wooden floor planks, plus the fumes from the spill will then be in the room and need ventilating.

When I was briefly considering buying a resin printer, I was horrified by the comments on Reddit from teenagers who were printing D&D figures in their bedrooms, handling spills by rubbing them into the carpet, or assuming "low odour" meant "safe". In these discussions, comments from a chemist who claimed to work for a company producing the resin were downvoted, they didn't want to know.

"Well, I'll be careful" generally isn't an adequate safety precaution in industry or academia.




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