Hello!
I am lucky and I have a nice space where to create my new darkroom, basically it's the kitchen of my previous apartment (so I'll have the connection to running water)
Attached here there is a plan of how I think I would design it at this moment but, please, help me as I am almost new to this.
So far I've been only developing film with my Jobo CCP-2 processor on a simple table and then scanning the film but now I would also like to print some images myself (only contact prints as I don't have an enlarger).
As you can see in the plan the room is 4,5 mt x 3 mt and there is a window on the east side of the room (orange line) and a door that goes to the balcony in the north-east part (I'll mask them with some black stuff).
The dotted lines are the metal cables to hang films and prints while the two half-circle on both side of the room (north and south) are two red safe lights.
WET PART
All the water pipes are on the southern side of the room and so I am forced to put the wet part there.
As I already have the tables the wet part measure 300x75 cm (2 tables 150x75 cm) and I will create a waterproof plastic tabletop with high borders to have water running on the table (sorry I don't know the technical name). In this way it'll be easier to clean everything and I'll be able to unload the CPP-2 unit easily.
Do you think this tabletop should have some inclination to let the water flow better? I thought so but then the Jobo CPP-2 would be not on a horizontal plane and the tank will rotate not parallel to the ground anymore...
In this part I'll put my Jobo CPP-2 processor (I want to connect it to cold running water to cool down the temperature when processing black and white film) and some trays for when I'll develop prints or other stuff.
To recap I though I should have 4 connection to the water system:
- 1 cold that goes to the Jobo CPP-2 processor
- 1 cold that goes with a loose tube to a tray to wash prints and film with running water
- 1 cold and 1 hot for general purpose...
On the shelf on top of the Jobo I'll put tanks, measure tools, etc.
I'll keep the chemicals on the ground inside of some waterproof plastic boxes.
DRY PART
I am not 100% about how I'll use this part.
As you can see I would like to make some contact prints up to 100x70 cm but I don't have any enlarger and so I'll use only a bare bulb hanging from the top.
The rest of the tables is, so far, empty.
As I plan to try some alternative printing methods I guess I'll end up using these tables to prepare the materials etc...
As I said I am not an expert so please any advice is more than welcome!
Thank you very much for your help!
Alessandro
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