Help!
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 3:16 pm
With 3 bouts of sickness in the past 3 weeks, I've forgotten to post this up here. After episode 95 my wife commented that it seemed my room had developed a leak.
For those of you who don't know, I built a room in my basement when I bought the house and sealed it up to prevent smoke leakage to the rest of the home. I used construction overruns and random products on hand and produced a rather rustic, very functional, cigar retreat. I covered the ceiling joists (floor joists of 1st floor) with two layers of heavy visqueen (plastic sheets) and overlapped down the walls a bit. All joints, corners, penetrations, etc were caulked, foamed, stuffed and covered, leaving the only source of entry/exit from the room (for anything) as the door and exhaust fan. I undercut the door so that any air exhausted out could be replaced by "make-up" air brought in due to the fan's vacuum effect (affect?). The perimeter was weather stripped and sealed completely.
All of this is background for where I think I've traced the leak. My exhaust ductwork is an old disconnected dryer vent that conveniently was never used by the prior homeowners, AND was 3 feet from where my fan sits outside my room. What I need help with is a method to find this hole so it can be patched or removed. I'm thinking a smoke bomb in my room so it exhausts out some funky color smoke that I can see from the adjacent area of my basement, but I'm worried that my room will then smell like sulfur fireworks and have a color residue. Any other ideas? The very recording of Half Ashed hangs in the balance. I don't think she'll tolerate more than one or two more shows before she drops the hammer and I need to repipe the entire exhaust run.
For those of you who don't know, I built a room in my basement when I bought the house and sealed it up to prevent smoke leakage to the rest of the home. I used construction overruns and random products on hand and produced a rather rustic, very functional, cigar retreat. I covered the ceiling joists (floor joists of 1st floor) with two layers of heavy visqueen (plastic sheets) and overlapped down the walls a bit. All joints, corners, penetrations, etc were caulked, foamed, stuffed and covered, leaving the only source of entry/exit from the room (for anything) as the door and exhaust fan. I undercut the door so that any air exhausted out could be replaced by "make-up" air brought in due to the fan's vacuum effect (affect?). The perimeter was weather stripped and sealed completely.
All of this is background for where I think I've traced the leak. My exhaust ductwork is an old disconnected dryer vent that conveniently was never used by the prior homeowners, AND was 3 feet from where my fan sits outside my room. What I need help with is a method to find this hole so it can be patched or removed. I'm thinking a smoke bomb in my room so it exhausts out some funky color smoke that I can see from the adjacent area of my basement, but I'm worried that my room will then smell like sulfur fireworks and have a color residue. Any other ideas? The very recording of Half Ashed hangs in the balance. I don't think she'll tolerate more than one or two more shows before she drops the hammer and I need to repipe the entire exhaust run.
