The ultimate Odour control thread

Ona is the way if you dont want a big carbon and dont want to put holes in you walls.

My closet is located next to an unused chimney - when the house was built 100 years ago, this room (and the adjacent room) had coal-burning stoves attached to this chimney.

So I cut a piece of drywall (actually horsehair plaster) and found the chimney. Then I chipped out the mortar around one of the bricks, and removed it.

I stuck a piece of dryer vent into my new chimney port, and positioned the other end at the top of the closet.

A computer case fan drives air through the vent.

Now my tiny stealth closet has no smell, and any potential foul odors are ventillated through a virtually uknown 3-story chimney.

Oh, and it keeps temps down and provides air circulation.

It even is a source of negative pressure for this room, so it no longer gets dusty and musty. WIN!

Originally Posted by moops

My closet is located next to an unused chimney - when the house was built 100 years ago, this room (and the adjacent room) had coal-burning stoves attached to this chimney.

So I cut a piece of drywall (actually horsehair plaster) and found the chimney. Then I chipped out the mortar around one of the bricks, and removed it.

I stuck a piece of dryer vent into my new chimney port, and positioned the other end at the top of the closet.

A computer case fan drives air through the vent.

Now my tiny stealth closet has no smell, and any potential foul odors are ventillated through a virtually uknown 3-story chimney.

Oh, and it keeps temps down and provides air circulation.

It even is a source of negative pressure for this room, so it no longer gets dusty and musty. WIN!

In your case it's going into a chimney that would have lots of things to make the odor die down... but you should STILL treat the odor first before ventilating it elsewhere. I can duct smell out my window untreated but if my neighbor smells it I'm still fucked... You need to treat your dirty air. Put a carbon filter before it enters the chimney and you should be golden.

-potlike

Originally Posted by potlike

In your case it's going into a chimney that would have lots of things to make the odor die down... but you should STILL treat the odor first before ventilating it elsewhere. I can duct smell out my window untreated but if my neighbor smells it I'm still fucked... You need to treat your dirty air. Put a carbon filter before it enters the chimney and you should be golden.

-potlike

funny you mention that because i made an addition even before i read this. there are now TWO fans - one drives topcloset air into the dryer duct, the other drives duct air into the chimney (I noticed that when upon opening it, it has its own slight positive pressure that resulted in the room smelling like old chimney). also, i placed several wadded-up fabric softener sheets at one end of the aluminum dryer duct. the exhaust *does* have a slight plant smell to it; there's the distinct aroma of Snuggle, which confuses the sniffing nose.

and i am upgrading this. the aluminum dryer duct that's ON MY DRYER needs to be replaced. since it's a few years old, the interior of the old duct is lined with old lint and fabric softener sheet material. running exhaust through that should further mask smells.

keep in mind this ventilates a very small New England -style closet. and what really grinds my gears is that since i'm yet to get good seeds, there's no grow going! just "testing" it with basil and rosemary! grrrr! but the basil is growing gangbusters!

I had a small 400watt grow in a 2'x2' area with 4-5 plants and you could smell it a block away. I wasn't even exhausting my air outside. It was going into my bedroom and then leaking out. My entire apt smelled so bad I could never have any one over. Spend $100-$200 on a filter and you will have nothing to worry about.

i want to post a thread. how many post do i have to do b4 i can start my own thread???????

For a small cabinet grow, one of these natural magic cans work great.

http://www.naturalmagic.com/product/...d98ceffd1.aspx

Just put it in the breeze outside the exhaust fan. Works great, lasts 2-3 months. This one smells like dryer sheets, which is more stealth than the fruity ones IMO.

as far as buying a carbon filter, which would you guys recommend? the can style or the inline style? also, how close will i be able to put a fan to my 400 W MH light for cooling?

Hey, here's a question for the ONA users.

Does your smell/taste return when the final product is removed from the room.

Just started using this and it actually freaked me out how well it eliminated odors......

Thx

I wish I would have read/found this a few months ago, but 450-something dollars later I have a SUPER EFFICIENT & EFFECTIVE set up with the CANFAN66 COMBO. Though I praise it on a daily basis as one of the worlds best inventions--I am definitely going to try my hand at a DIY for drying area and then perhaps instead of sinking another couple hundred every year/year 1/2 into replacement (which, up until I read this, I did feel was money well spent) I will create my own.


This is a most wonderful and important thread--as I AM A STRONG STRONG BELIEVER IN ODOR CONTROL--for as the honest quote goes

"no smell, no tell...no cell"

THANK YOU ALL FOR THE USEFUL IDEAS!!