Clearing cigarette smoke from my garage...bathroom fan?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Clearing cigarette smoke from my garage...bathroom fan?

Posted: 12/14/2010 7:41:42 PM EDT

I have a couple friends who smoke...most of the year were outside and we hang. In the winter I run the heater and we hang in the garage.

The smoke gets pretty thick and opening the door kind of ruins the whole heater thing.

The garage is finished and has an attic above and its only 16X24...I was thinking of installing a big bathroom exhaust fan near the smoking area and tying the vent into another bathroom vent line...would this work ok?

Any other ideas?

Would like to keep it around $100

Posted: 12/14/2010 7:43:01 PM EDT

[#1]

Get new friends.

Posted: 12/14/2010 7:45:55 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
Get new friends.

Why?

Posted: 12/14/2010 8:11:15 PM EDT

[#3]

Just get a wall mounted fart fan that exhausts through an exterior wall.

Make sure you size it correctly for the sq. footage on the garage.

Posted: 12/14/2010 8:12:22 PM EDT

[#4]

Open the garage door once in a while?

Posted: 12/14/2010 8:12:38 PM EDT

[#5]

If you guys hang out regularly at YOUR place and THEY smoke but it's bothering you,

I see no reason for you to have to modify your home to accommodate their habit just so you can enjoy fresh air in your dwelling.

As a smoker myself, knowing that you are my friend and don't smoke but you generously allowed me and the guys to continue our habit even though you don't do it I would have no problem with me and the guys pitching in and buy an air purifier at OUR expense. after all it is still YOUR place and what you say goes.

Posted: 12/14/2010 8:12:56 PM EDT

[#6]

Just suck it up and quit being a libtard.

Posted: 12/14/2010 8:14:10 PM EDT

[#7]

12" pancake style exhaust fan from Home Depot mounted 8" (at edge) below ceiling blowing thru the wall with springshut louvers works great for this even in snow country. Of course it means cutting a hole in the outside wall so this may be a problem if it's a rental house. I used a 12" because the smaller size didn't move enough air to deal with the smoke.

Posted: 12/14/2010 8:15:39 PM EDT

[#8]

Does your garage have any windows? If so, then just put up a regular box fan in the window to blow the smoke outside.

Posted: 12/14/2010 8:17:55 PM EDT

[#9]

any fan that pulls that much smoke out will, pull in cold air. Get a Smoke Eliminator Air Purifiers

Posted: 12/14/2010 8:21:17 PM EDT

[#10]

Make them smoke outside it's as simple as that. If they dont want to stand in the freezing temps and snow it means they don't want their nicotine fix that badly.

Posted: 12/14/2010 8:23:21 PM EDT

[#11]

I smoke, but not in my house. When someone is over I just go out to the porch with them and bs when smoking. Outside is the only sure thing.

Posted: 12/14/2010 8:23:37 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
any fan that pulls that much smoke out will, pull in cold air. Get a Smoke Eliminator Air Purifiers

The air purifiers are great but cost more than $100

I had a roommate in college with one that smoked in his bedroom and the house never smelled like smoke.

Posted: 12/14/2010 8:29:31 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:

Quoted:
any fan that pulls that much smoke out will, pull in cold air. Get a Smoke Eliminator Air Purifiers

The air purifiers are great but cost more than $100

I had a roommate in college with one that smoked in his bedroom and the house never smelled like smoke.

True.

A friend of mine smokes in his room at his house and just opens the window and sets a fan up near it. They don't have the heat on much to save money. If he's downstairs he will smoke over the oven and the exhaust will take the smoke away.

Posted: 12/14/2010 8:33:16 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
If he's downstairs he will smoke over the oven and the exhaust will take the smoke away.

I used to do that....sometimes after lighting the cigarette on the toaster.

Posted: 12/14/2010 8:35:03 PM EDT

[#15]

You do not sound like your needs are this serious, but there are some real deals to be had on smoke eaters. I know when Iowa passed a no smoking in bars or restaurant law there were smoke eaters hanging in half the bars in town, and most of them would probably pay you to uninstall it and haul it off. There is basically no market for these things and their are tons of them hanging in shitty bars, never to be used again.

Posted: 12/14/2010 8:41:25 PM EDT

[#16]

the garage should have a vent to the outside. mount an attic fan to it, wear a jacket. attic fans are cheap. juat have it on a switch (not the thermostatic switch it comes with). turn it on and off through out the night or add a dimmer switch to regulate the fan speed. this will have a MUCH higher CFM than an attic fan and can me used for cooling in summer.

Posted: 12/14/2010 9:23:56 PM EDT

[#17]

Appreciate the input guys, I run a Kerosene heater and it gets up to 85 with the door cracked an inch or so I can give up some heat but when its 15-20 degrees its still friggen cold.

When people drink they smoke, at least I did when I smoked so I figured I'd make it a bit more hospitable to smokers. Do the purifirers actually remove the smoke or just mask it?

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Posted: 12/14/2010 9:56:22 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Open the garage door once in a while?

That's what me and my dad used to do when we would smoke cigars in the garage. It works. lol. Even when we had like 2 heaters going.

Posted: 12/15/2010 3:10:50 PM EDT

[#19]

As a smoker:

Chillin in garage for extended amount of time shootin the shit or workin on stuff- No out of the ordinary ventilation. The engines fired up output more crap than the cigarettes.
Smoking a cig then going back into the house- Smoke outside. Sure it's "winter", in VA

. Don't know about down there, but I smoke outside when it's 4 degrees.

Important peice of knowledge I did not see, is the garage attached or detached?

Posted: 12/15/2010 3:23:11 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Just suck it up and quit being a libtard.

lol

Posted: 12/15/2010 3:32:14 PM EDT

[#21]

Louvered exhaust fan.

Or be cheap, get a 5" hole saw, run that bad boy through the exterior wall, obtain flexible hose matching size of new hole, attach fan to opposite edge of hose, deploy up high near smoking section.

Posted: 12/15/2010 3:38:47 PM EDT

[#22]

Most of my "Friends" go outside to smoke even in the winter

Posted: 12/17/2010 9:31:06 AM EDT

[#23]

Any other ideas?

Posted: 12/17/2010 9:41:30 AM EDT

[#24]

Rather than cutting a hole in your ceiling and whatnot why not try this. It will be cheaper and temporary.

Step 1, acquire square box fan.
Step 2. measure width of garage door opening and subtract width of box fan from step 1
Step 3. go to HD, Lowes, or lumber yard and acquire the necessary amount of plywood (1-2 sheets)
Step 4. apply measurements from step 2, cutting the plywood to the same height as box fan.
Step 5. open garage door height of fan and wood pieces.
step 6. position fan in the center with plywood filler pieces on either side
Step 7 add pieces of 2x4 to serve as "feet" so it does not tip over.

Its much easier than putting in a fan and then having to explain to the realator why you felt it necessary to add an exhaust fan in your garage.

Posted: 12/17/2010 9:44:29 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Rather than cutting a hole in your ceiling and whatnot why not try this. It will be cheaper and temporary.

Step 1, acquire square box fan.
Step 2. measure width of garage door opening and subtract width of box fan from step 1
Step 3. go to HD, Lowes, or lumber yard and acquire the necessary amount of plywood (1-2 sheets)
Step 4. apply measurements from step 2, cutting the plywood to the same height as box fan.
Step 5. open garage door height of fan and wood pieces.
step 6. position fan in the center with plywood filler pieces on either side
Step 7 add pieces of 2x4 to serve as "feet" so it does not tip over.

Its much easier than putting in a fan and then having to explain to the realator why you felt it necessary to add an exhaust fan in your garage.

That was a thought of mine (something like it at least) was thinking of getting half sheets of ply and closing the door on them.

Posted: 12/17/2010 9:45:51 AM EDT

[#26]

I don't have any advice on how best to clear the air, but if you hook a bathroom fan up to another vent line you will push smoke into your house unless THAT fan is running as well. If you go the bathroom fan route, give it it's own vent all the way out.

Posted: 12/17/2010 10:02:08 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Make them smoke outside it's as simple as that. If they dont want to stand in the freezing temps and snow it means they don't want their nicotine fix that badly.

+1

Posted: 12/17/2010 10:06:28 AM EDT

[#28]

I have to vent fumes and heat from my basement print shop when either builds up. I just replaced a window pane with a piece of plywood and one of these to purge the air as needed.

Posted: 12/17/2010 10:56:03 AM EDT

[#29]

Posted: 12/17/2010 11:01:48 AM EDT

[#30]

If you want to smoke at my place or while in my autos you step outside. That is the way it is. Hell, even if I smoked I would take it outside.

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