Ventilation Question

[WNYTONY]

This is a joke, right ? We talked about this and hell yeah baller - living in the perfect weather why you wanna go inside ????? LOL

Ok, here we go

I'd estimate my room at about 12 x 20 and 8 high. Always just me smoking in here.

Yes, I did an inline fan in the attic above with 2 drops in the ceiling. Fan vents outside thru a window in the attic. I wouldn't recommend just letting it sit in the attic - think you gotta get it outside but I've not tried it. Fan pulls air under the door into the room and keeps anything from going out into the rest of the house. I've never had any problem with it pulling too much air out of the house or anything and I will say it's a little less effective if I crack a window while smoking as it pulls in direct from the window and doesn't seem to clear as fast.
Here's the fan I use
https://www.amazon.com/Fantech-PB370...87&s=hi&sr=1-4


I have a switch that is on a timer so I can set it to run while I'm smoking and leave it running after I'm done, which is usually as I head to bed. Here's the switch I use
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Defiant-...0469/206264395

Lastly, I use a scrubber to clean the air. I have it set on a regular plug in light timer so it comes on several times a day. I think it's for a half hour or an hour at like 5 am, late morning and late afternoon and then it comes on for about an hour and a half at around 1 am which is usually about when I'd dome with my nightly cigar - so it also runs after I go to bed. Here's the one I use
https://www.airpurifiersmoke.com/rev...-air-purifier/

I do get some residual smoke smell as I have some curtains and a carpet remnant under my desk chair but it's not too bad, doesn't get outside the room and is wife approved.

I'm sure you can spend alot more and do a better system, but it works for my situation and it's my home office / man cave so no one but me spends any time in here. Probably wouldn't work for multiple smokers or a room you want to entertain in as common area.

Some of these may not be available any more - I set this up back in 2014 after my kids were gone and not coming back. But these are the items I used - for reference purposes. YMMV

[Regiampiero]

Lastly, I use a scrubber to clean the air. I have it set on a regular plug in light timer so it comes on several times a day. I think it's for a half hour or an hour at like 5 am, late morning and late afternoon and then it comes on for about an hour and a half at around 1 am which is usually about when I'd dome with my nightly cigar - so it also runs after I go to bed.

I do get some residual smoke smell as I have some curtains and a carpet remnant under my desk chair but it's not too bad, doesn't get outside the room and is wife approved.

The reason the curtains and carpet smell is because of the smoke scrubber. That's a particle ionizer which works by charging the smoke particles so they precipitates faster. The pro is that it eliminates the particles out of the air quick, the con is that the particles coming out are charged (like a static balloon) and they stick to the first surface they come in contact with, so floors, furniture, curtains and so on. Hence the lingering smell. The same happens in my garage, but it's a garage and I don't care. I think you have a pretty good setup where you shouldn't even need to run that scrubber, just my two cents.

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[WNYTONY]

The reason the curtains and carpet smell is because of the smoke scrubber. That's a particle ionizer which works by charging the smoke particles so they precipitates faster. The pro is that it eliminates the particles out of the air quick, the con is that the particles coming out are charged (like a static balloon) and they stick to the first surface they come in contact with, so floors, furniture, curtains and so on. Hence the lingering smell. The same happens in my garage, but it's a garage and I don't care. I think you have a pretty good setup where you shouldn't even need to run that scrubber, just my two cents.

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That's pretty interesting. Everything I've ever read on doing a smoking room recommends leather chairs, no carpet or drapes as the smoke smell will stick to them but nothing was ever mentioned about charged particles. Most don't even mention using an ionizer - I just found it helps quite a bit for my setup.
That being said, I'd be willing to try it out for a little bit and and see how it works. Just finished my nightly and I unplugged the scrubber so I'll see what it is like with just the fan going.

@SoCal gunner and @Nature - 1400 cfm is alot of air to move. When I did mine I remember calculating and using info found on the interwebs and if I remember right my 360 cfm was higher than recommended for this size room. I want to say maybe 250 was the recommended and I went the next size up but that was also because I wanted to 2 drops pulling. You guys are anticipating multiple smokers so maybe that's it.

[WNYTONY]

The reason the curtains and carpet smell is because of the smoke scrubber. That's a particle ionizer which works by charging the smoke particles so they precipitates faster. The pro is that it eliminates the particles out of the air quick, the con is that the particles coming out are charged (like a static balloon) and they stick to the first surface they come in contact with, so floors, furniture, curtains and so on. Hence the lingering smell. The same happens in my garage, but it's a garage and I don't care. I think you have a pretty good setup where you shouldn't even need to run that scrubber, just my two cents.

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Have to say that I tried just running the fan G and it didn't work nearly as well without the scrubber. Ran the fan entire time while smoking and for a few hours after I was done and closed the door and hit the sack with it still running. Still a smokey smell in the am and wife did not approve. Worth a shot but sticking with my tried, trusted and wife approved process.