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Dust control
It seems I am plagued with dust no matter what I do. When I built the new
darkroom, I caulked every drywall seam, floor and ceiling joints, plumbing entrances and exits, filtered the air intake, don't smoke in the room and I still have a huge dust and spider problem. I can't figure how the critters get in yet alone what they eat. This room is almost air tight! I'm considering an ionic air thingy...thoughts? |
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"Tom Gardner" wrote: It seems I am plagued with dust no matter what I do. When I built the new darkroom, I caulked every drywall seam, floor and ceiling joints, plumbing entrances and exits, filtered the air intake, don't smoke in the room and I still have a huge dust and spider problem. I can't figure how the critters get in yet alone what they eat. This room is almost air tight! I'm considering an ionic air thingy...thoughts? An ionic air thing may be needed depending on the conditions here in Maryland because of humidity dust sticks in place, wipe it away and its gone-but its important to cover negatives with sleeves. As for spiders who knows they creep me out. -- The things we hate most in life often turn out to be a mirror image of ourselves. Better not to hate. Findmedirectly - "infoatgregblankphoto.com" |
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I've always felt that dust has more of a chance of becoming airborn if
there's too little humidity. Any way to test this out? Could the spiders be coming in through the plumbing? -Lew "Tom Gardner" wrote in message . com... It seems I am plagued with dust no matter what I do. When I built the new darkroom, I caulked every drywall seam, floor and ceiling joints, plumbing entrances and exits, filtered the air intake, don't smoke in the room and I still have a huge dust and spider problem. I can't figure how the critters get in yet alone what they eat. This room is almost air tight! I'm considering an ionic air thingy...thoughts? |
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Dust ... Is there too little humidity?
Spiders ... Coming in through the plumbing? Air filter? -Lew "Tom Gardner" wrote in message . com... It seems I am plagued with dust no matter what I do. When I built the new darkroom, I caulked every drywall seam, floor and ceiling joints, plumbing entrances and exits, filtered the air intake, don't smoke in the room and I still have a huge dust and spider problem. I can't figure how the critters get in yet alone what they eat. This room is almost air tight! I'm considering an ionic air thingy...thoughts? |
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Tom Gardner spake thus:
It seems I am plagued with dust no matter what I do. When I built the new darkroom, I caulked every drywall seam, floor and ceiling joints, plumbing entrances and exits, filtered the air intake, don't smoke in the room and I still have a huge dust and spider problem. I can't figure how the critters get in yet alone what they eat. This room is almost air tight! I'm considering an ionic air thingy...thoughts? Yes: give up. Embrace the dust. All attempts at resistance are futile. -- Second, Scientologists are like computers trying to run an emulation of another computer. It can be done, but the performance is awful. Scientologists are trying to run a bad copy of LRH. - Keith Henson, from alt.religion.scientology |
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lately there has been a thread at photo.net about this matter that resulted
quite usefull to me. it's subject is Dust, dust, ando more dust: http://www.photo.net/bboard/forum?topic_id=1542 (2006-03-04) |
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:28:53 GMT, "Tom Gardner"
wrote: It seems I am plagued with dust no matter what I do. When I built the new darkroom, I caulked every drywall seam, floor and ceiling joints, plumbing entrances and exits, filtered the air intake, don't smoke in the room and I still have a huge dust and spider problem. I can't figure how the critters get in yet alone what they eat. This room is almost air tight! I'm considering an ionic air thingy...thoughts? Is the ventilation positive or negative pressure? If it is negative pressure, unfiltered air will be pulled in anywhere it can be -- electrical outlets, light fixtures, under and around the door, etc. Best solution is to create positive pressure ventilation, and filter the intake. Chris Ellinger Ann Arbor, MI |
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"Chris Ellinger" wrote
Is the ventilation positive or negative pressure? And if it is positive (which it should be) what sort of filter is being used? -- Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio Consulting Engineer: Electronics; Informatics; Photonics. To reply, remove spaces: n o lindan at ix . netcom . com Fstop timer - http://www.nolindan.com/da/fstop/index.htm |
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Is the ventilation positive or negative pressure?
If it is negative pressure, unfiltered air will be pulled in anywhere it can be -- electrical outlets, light fixtures, under and around the door, etc. Best solution is to create positive pressure ventilation, and filter the intake. Chris Ellinger Ann Arbor, MI I built a filter holder that uses a "High Efficiency" accordion style element that is mounted on the ceiling/wall that has a booster duct fan on the 6" duct coming from the AC/furnace. There is a switch on this fan. On the floor, under the sink area is a vent that dumps into the other part of the basement. There is a standard fiberglass furnace filter on this. So, I have positive pressure...kinda'. How about I block the air dump partially or fully and increase the positive pressure? I don't want to run the booster fan continuously and rarely run it at all, only when it gets hot in there, no problem with it being too cold. |
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:44:17 -0800, David Nebenzahl
wrote: Tom Gardner spake thus: It seems I am plagued with dust no matter what I do. When I built the new darkroom, I caulked every drywall seam, floor and ceiling joints, plumbing entrances and exits, filtered the air intake, don't smoke in the room and I still have a huge dust and spider problem. I can't figure how the critters get in yet alone what they eat. This room is almost air tight! I'm considering an ionic air thingy...thoughts? Yes: give up. Embrace the dust. All attempts at resistance are futile. Oh pooh ! Anyone can get rid of dust ! All you have to do is to run your hot water line into a fire extinguisher/sprinkler and let it bathe your darkroom in steaming hot water prior to your usage of said room. P.S. Please check all grounds prior to flooding the darkroom with steaming hot water ! == John S. Douglas Photographer & Webmaster www.legacy-photo,com www.xs750.net |
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