Brian Elfert wrote:
What are the recommendations for smoke/heat detectors to detect fire in a
shop? Won't standard smoke detectors collect a lot of dust and
malfunction?

Ideally, I would interconnect the detectors in the shop with the ones in
the house so I know about a fire when I am not out there.

How about a heat activated sprinkler head and a water alarm on the floor
under it? :-)