smoking room ventilation

[Volt]

Hal (hk3) has built the last man room that I can remember as wel las a few others. If your search foo is good they should pop up. My google foo is good, but this forum not so much at times.

A guess on my part, without better sealing your gonna have to push a lot of air up and out. Might lose more in heat $$$ than trying at least some moderate sealing. There are a few different sized cigar fume eliminators, I cannot remember the name but many here have had good results with them. I'm sure someone will see this and put out the name brand. But as one BOTL stated, it's not just the fumes, the ashes that float will carry a lot of smell, vacumn alot and/or something your smoking over that can be easily cleaned.

[BigCat]

Originally Posted by Knip23

You might be better off just putting a box fan in that hole leading outside. Tabb and i smoke in the garage all the time and we have heaters set up in there and a box fan pushing all the smoke out wife complains a little but not much. other than that a Exhaust fan should work just depends on how much $ you want to spend.

Yea, unfortunately the hole doesn't lead outside - it leads into the rest of the house. The windows in the room also are verticle crank out types, so I can't put a box fan in them. That would be what I would do for the time being if I could. Thanks for the thought though.

Originally Posted by Volt

Hal (hk3) has built the last man room that I can remember as wel las a few others. If your search foo is good they should pop up. My google foo is good, but this forum not so much at times.

A guess on my part, without better sealing your gonna have to push a lot of air up and out. Might lose more in heat $$$ than trying at least some moderate sealing. There are a few different sized cigar fume eliminators, I cannot remember the name but many here have had good results with them. I'm sure someone will see this and put out the name brand. But as one BOTL stated, it's not just the fumes, the ashes that float will carry a lot of smell, vacumn alot and/or something your smoking over that can be easily cleaned.

You're probably right about that. I suppose I would be drawing heated air from the whole house and pushing it out. That could add up.

Given that, how about a ceiling mounted smoke eater? I presume the energy loss would be minimal with something like that.