matthewkolden
New Member
Just looking for some help and suggestions on the best way to ventilate my garage.
I live in Minnesota where the winters get pretty darn cold. I use a wood burning barrel stove to heat the garage during the cold winters, and I use it as my smoking room (basically it's just a living room outside, since we have a big screen tv, fridge, and microwave as well). So, that all said, I need to ventilate the garage before this winter comes, because last year I think I inhaled about 4 million times the smoke I needed to. I don't mind a little lingering smoke, but with 4 or 5 cigars going when I have my buddies over, it gets pretty bad.
So, i'm wondering what the best way would be to ventilate this garage. It is currently un-insulated, though that will be changing within the next couple years. The garage is about 400-500 square feet, just a big square. I thought about putting 2 or 3 170 CFM bathroom fans in the ceiling with insulated lines running out to the roof. I just don't know if that'll be good enough. I would think I need to figure a good way to exchange the air completely, not just remove the smoke.
The other concern I have is creating a draft that will suck smoke out of the barrel stove and into the room.
I'm no ventilation expert, so i'm totally in the dark as to the best way to set this up. Just looking for some ideas and suggestions, or some direction as to who to talk to who might have some answers. Any help would be much appreciated guys. I just hate that during the winter, I don't have a decent place to smoke, and i'm hoping this year I can change that. Thanks in advance!!
Matt
I live in Minnesota where the winters get pretty darn cold. I use a wood burning barrel stove to heat the garage during the cold winters, and I use it as my smoking room (basically it's just a living room outside, since we have a big screen tv, fridge, and microwave as well). So, that all said, I need to ventilate the garage before this winter comes, because last year I think I inhaled about 4 million times the smoke I needed to. I don't mind a little lingering smoke, but with 4 or 5 cigars going when I have my buddies over, it gets pretty bad.
So, i'm wondering what the best way would be to ventilate this garage. It is currently un-insulated, though that will be changing within the next couple years. The garage is about 400-500 square feet, just a big square. I thought about putting 2 or 3 170 CFM bathroom fans in the ceiling with insulated lines running out to the roof. I just don't know if that'll be good enough. I would think I need to figure a good way to exchange the air completely, not just remove the smoke.
The other concern I have is creating a draft that will suck smoke out of the barrel stove and into the room.
I'm no ventilation expert, so i'm totally in the dark as to the best way to set this up. Just looking for some ideas and suggestions, or some direction as to who to talk to who might have some answers. Any help would be much appreciated guys. I just hate that during the winter, I don't have a decent place to smoke, and i'm hoping this year I can change that. Thanks in advance!!
Matt
