I am considering smoking in the basement at my house, and have a few questions. The basement is unfurnished and has the basic basement rectangular window. I am not planning on smoking down there alot, just occasionally, because i dont want my roommates to get the idea that they can smoke cigarettes down there all the time. I was curious if the furnace would carry the smell/smoke to the rest of the house, because it is in the area i would be smoking at. I was figuring i would put a fan in the window, and just put a towel under the basement door to keep the smoke out of the upstairs. I am not looking to get an air purifier, because i just want to smoke down here once in a great while, just some temporary solutions that wont piss off my roommates.
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Over the holidays, friends and I smoked a few cigars in basement of their house after the wife passed out from a night of drinking with us. We put a fan next to the window and closed the door leading upstairs. The next morning my friends hung over wife came down stairs and smelled the cigar smoke from the previous night. She was pissed... I think the furnace did carry the smoke to the upper levels of the house. We had a great time however.
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came up with a solution. I moved the room idea to a different part of the basement, away from the furnace. I closed in a area with tarps, floor to ceiling, and put a fan in the window. it works pretty good.
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I think an air purifier will work well too. I have one of the Holmes units that I keep in my living room where I smoke and after an hour of so running it with the ionizer on and the fan on high, there is no smell..works for me
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quote:Originally posted by jadawin: I am not planning on smoking down there alot, just occasionally, because i dont want my roommates to get the idea that they can smoke cigarettes down there all the time.
Sorry to say, but it sounds like you're building the household smoking room (why should you be able to smoke there but not them?)
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We came up with some rules. The smoking room is for roommates only, because we dont want everyone smoking inside during parties and things like that. It can only be used when its doo damn cold to smoke outside, because we dont want the house to always smell smokey.
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I have a similar issue. I have a room that is ripe for conversion, but it is very close to the furnace.
But I live in Georgia, so the cold is hardly a problem.
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If your using a fan, you have electricity. I sometimes just fall off the chair when I realize how intelligent I am. Anyway, in addition to the fan, pick up a bathroom vent fan, and run it outside with a dryer hose. That way, you can go a few feet from the house with it, and eliminate anything coming thru if someone opens a door or window while you're down there.
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In addition to the smoke being circulated through the heating vents smoke will also permiate through the floor joists.
When I converted the den in the basement to a smoking room my wife complained that the smell was coming up through the floor so we changed the basement ceiling tiles and placed a vapor barrier between the basement ceiling and the tiles.
I also have a good smoke clearing air filter.
When I have friends over for a smoke I just turn the filter up to high and it works just fine.
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Posts: 9566 | Location: New York City | Registered: May 02, 2002
Reading this post with interest. My wife made a deal with me. If I build her a two car garage, I can take 1/2 of the existing garage and make it into a den/smoking room. The deposit for the architect goes out this week.
Doc - The vapor barrier is a good tip. I'll also be putting in a good vent system. Bluesky mentioned Holmes. Are there any other suggestions?
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My experience with women (I've been married to one for 20 years) is that you simply cannot hide anything from them. My wife can smell cigar smoke whether I'm on the patio, taking a walk or hanging out at the local gigar shop. Hell, she can smell it from YOUR house. My advice is that you're simply better off ignoring their complaints and give them money to go shopping. Works for me.
I have a heated basement that I've outfitted with a sofa, easy chair, poker table, television and several humidors--my smoking room. When I smoke alone I put on an air cleaner that does an OK job, but for poker night or whenever there's a group over I open the door to the garage, open a window on the other side of the room and use a fan to get the air moving out. There's still somewhat of a smoky smell in some of the upstairs rooms, but nothing too dramatic. I have a hot water heating system with radiators, so I don't think it's the furnace that's moving the smoke upstairs (never thought of that, actually, until reading this post) but rather that some smoke seeps through the ceiling and into the upper house.
It's the best way for me to smoke a cigar in the house--I won't smoke upstairs with the kid and the deck is too damn cold this time of year.
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quote:Originally posted by wacco: pick up a bathroom vent fan, and run it outside with a dryer hose. That way, you can go a few feet from the house with it, and eliminate anything coming thru if someone opens a door or window while you're down there.
But what about the other trailers ? woof, woof.
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Raven...no you don't. Be thankful you don't have a basement...unless you like to spend all night during a heavy rain wet-vacuuming 200 gallons of water.
