IcarusLSC
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My mom smokes in her single car garage (attached to house.) It's a thick haze of smoke in there, and I really don't know how she can stand it. I smoked for 22+yrs and quit, and I don't expect my mom to, but its just hard to breathe walking into that and it makes everything stink like smoke (mainly her!), and there's nothing good about it at all for her. The garage will never see a car in it while she lives there which is fine. She has a desk setup in there and a comfy chair (and I store my extra tool cabinets there which used to get coated in yellow grime till I made some covers for them!) It is partially insulated so doesn't fall below freezing rarely and she has an IR heater to warm her. In the summer she will open the door at times (not enough), but in the cold its only cracked open 2-3" which doesn't do anything for getting rid of the smoke! Also this allows critters (mainly mice, though we did find an opossum in there once!) to come in which I have to then trap and get rid of for her as she won't do that. I've been able to keep anything from going inside the house by sealing up areas pretty good, but it's only time before they make their way inside inside!
I needed some ideas of an inexpensive way to remove the haze from the garage for her please. I really hate to see her sit in this for hours+ at a time sometimes (she will sit out there and read, or do crosswords, or chat on the phone, etc.)
Whatever I would use needs to be wall mounted about 7' up, go through a brick wall that only has board in the inside (not insulated) and has 2x4 studs inside, there is an electrical wire I can use below it for switch/power too, so think this would be fairly easy to setup. Its under the master bedroom, ceiling is average insulation and garage is medium-tight for air leaks. The garage door is quite well sealed to the outside, inside is so-so sealed. I was thinking a 200CFM+ bathroom fan with a vent out the wall? OR should I look at proper wall exhaust fan? I know I technically need to feed as much air in as I do going out, but hoped this would at least get rid of the majority of this haze she sits in as the inside would pull air from the interior leaks? I've been looking online up here (Ontario Canada) and looks like some fans can get pricey fast!
Please don't make this a debate about smoking. She hears it enough from me about how bad this is for her sitting in this so much!
Thanks for an info/help anyone can provide
I needed some ideas of an inexpensive way to remove the haze from the garage for her please. I really hate to see her sit in this for hours+ at a time sometimes (she will sit out there and read, or do crosswords, or chat on the phone, etc.)
Whatever I would use needs to be wall mounted about 7' up, go through a brick wall that only has board in the inside (not insulated) and has 2x4 studs inside, there is an electrical wire I can use below it for switch/power too, so think this would be fairly easy to setup. Its under the master bedroom, ceiling is average insulation and garage is medium-tight for air leaks. The garage door is quite well sealed to the outside, inside is so-so sealed. I was thinking a 200CFM+ bathroom fan with a vent out the wall? OR should I look at proper wall exhaust fan? I know I technically need to feed as much air in as I do going out, but hoped this would at least get rid of the majority of this haze she sits in as the inside would pull air from the interior leaks? I've been looking online up here (Ontario Canada) and looks like some fans can get pricey fast!
Please don't make this a debate about smoking. She hears it enough from me about how bad this is for her sitting in this so much!
Thanks for an info/help anyone can provide
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