From: Jeff Buck (jeffbuck@swcp.com)
Date: 09/07/02-09:31:06 AM Z
Hi Shannon: 18x20 garage, using the entire space. Insulated the door w/
this styrofoamy stuff. Insulated the ceiling w/ insulation. Had to do a
lot a caulking around the ends of the ceiling beams. Because I'm in New
Mexico, I installed an evaporative cooler in the middle of the ceiling/roof
-- this makes the RH ~60-70. Great air circulation too (I take it out
through a ceiling exhaust fan in one corner). Thinking about steam-type
humidifier for winter. Got a pretty big used SS sink -- just does
accommodate four 16x20 trays. Had faucet installed w/ in-line temp gauge
and basic filter (off ebay for cheap). Friend made a mid-chest level
wooden frame for the sink etc. UV light system (metal halide variety) in
opposite corner, other things here and there. Light proofing eval: Not
perfect, but good enough that I can't see w/ naked eye fogging on the sheet
film edges; still, I develop film after dark whenever I can. Need more
plain table space. -jb
At 08:24 AM 9/7/2002 -0500, shannon stoney wrote:
>I just finished making an improvised darkroom in my garage. I hung black
>plastic from 2x4s propped on the metal beams in the garage, and I taped or
>stapled the plastic to the 2x4s and the metal beams. I put 2x4s on the
>floor too and stapled the bottom of the plastic to those. I already had a
>sink and a vent hood with a fan attached; all I had to do was make the
>area around it dark enough at night that I could process 8x10
>negatives. It worked! There was no fogging at all, and I could work out
>there before it got completely dark outside, as it turned out. The only
>remaining problem is that it is quite hot out there still, but in a month
>or so it should be cooler.
>
>I thought it would be interesting to learn how other people made darkrooms
>for themselves at home or elsewhere. Of course we alt-process people
>don't need as dark a room to make prints in, but there is still the
>problem of finding a really dark place to process those big negatives,
>unless you make digital negatives from smaller negatives.
>
>--shannon
>--
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