Kewaunee is a good company—check out BSI labs also.
Should cost about $4k for a decent sized hood. Add another $500 for the cost of installation. Pray that the building owner will allow you to install a new hole in the building for exhaust or that you can tie into existing exhaust.
If it’s a medical building they may have fume hoods they’re not even using
Everything Im reading suggests that the generators take typically 8 hours to remove smell.
Do you have any photos you could reference. I paid over $1,000 to have this built and there are so many spots air can escape that its basically worthless. Hired another guy to build me a plexiglass enclosure last week and he ended up robbing for another $1,000 and threatening us with violence.
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Yeah, this has nothing to do with criminal issues. If the pharmacy smells, my company will be kicked out with no where to operate as doctors in the building have complained leaving us on thin ice.
I don’t think they have any fume hoods and I have low confidence level that we could install additional holes in the building. What do you think of Erlab?
I dont have any pictures for you but what I was suggesting was a permanent structure and it doesnt sound like that idea would fly with the folks you rent from.
This will allow you to reduce the smell from decarbing.
Have you asked if you can tap into the existing ductwork?
Where do you hook up your duct on that hood?
Nah mine works right away. I use them all the time. Highly recommend from personal experience and research.
I would also suggest running a small personal humidifier on the intake of the unit. The generated hydroxyls will work wayyy better ime.
It would come down through the top, but its not fully set up. Hired a “more skilled” contractor and he literally took my cash and ran. Not going through this a third time. So I need a fool proof plan.
Can you cite a recommendation? I need something fool proof.
Can you send me a link? I need to make sure whatever I choose will work because my chances are highly limited.
We are not running a vaccum pump currently, but are open to changing our decarb method. Currently we are heating up mason jars. I have not asked,but I feel it may be a possibility to tap into existing ductwork.
These are the ones I use. I would contact them and see what’s up.
Decarb under vac with a cold trap or two. That coupled the the hydroxyls will be a win for sure!
Well my advice for your decarb method would be to use a small triclamp rig to contain all the smells and make sure to cool the unit down before opening back up to the atmosphere.
It sucks you had such a shitty experience hiring help. Did you alert the authorities that the guy took your money and ran?
To clarify, the rate at which a sample will decarb is unaffected by the pressure of the container the decarb process is happening in so what I was suggesting in the above post was to just decarb in a closed triclamp container and then cool the whole rig in the freezer before opening to try to get the volatile compounds to condense so there less smell in the air to begin with.
What would be the best set up to accomplish this? Currently we do not have a vaccum pump or any relevant glassware.
Could you possibly post a link/ photo of the set up you are describing. My apologies, this is definitely upgrading our current methods. Unfortunately, this guy is a very smart/psychotic con man. He made it clear that he now has basically a personal vendetta and has threatened myself and my business partner extensively. Its clear that he is unpredictable and dangerous so we have decided to let it go at this time. He says he plans to come to our space and cause more problems which could result in eviction.
I have a carbon filter and a hood that we built, our success is hit or miss. It needs to be surefire success because we can not afford another compliant. What closed container would you recommend. Mixing topicals is what creates the most smell, so we need to be able to fit our overhead mixer inside the box.
That carbon filter is cute but too small to do anything helpful. I’d use that in your washroom after a poo to be decent to your neighbors but your gonna need a bigger one if you intend to use it for your process…
