Originally Posted by
bob carnie
I am building a new facility, hopefully my last permanent darkroom, scanning printing work space.
The scanning room will be , a clean room, pos pressure , humidity and temp control with separate rooms to get into the room, with sticky floor for the shoes and disposable outfits to wear
while in the room.
The rest of the lab will be more open but once again , humidity and temp control and ventilation
Floors will be much easier to clean and maintain than ever in the past.We will have a polished concrete throughout.
Walls will be painted with Oil paint as ceilings
Portable filter systems throughout to clean up airbourne particles.
Silver Recovery system is maintained by outside vendor.
Distilled water is used for most processes, when required , otherwise regular city water.
We need to soften the hypo clear water otherwise we get scum.
Humidity is set year round to 40 % but can be raised or lowered overnight if required.
Temp is set to 70 C year round.
We have a master Vent to take out the air, connected to it is duct work that goes to areas the ventilation is required.
Our new space has 24ft ceilings so we are going to put fans in the ceilings to drop the warm air down in the winter time.
Separate room for chemical mixing and supplys.
Walk in freezer/cooler to store paper , chemicals .
Entrance ways will be secured so that people will be required to dump off their boots covered with salt and slush , before they get into the space.
We will put the critical areas separate from the public area.... I like this as I can hide and be the monkey pulling the chords behind the scene.
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