End all Be all of Sealing a Room thread??

[Dreamscape]

I've been searching around here on IC for the past 20 - 30 min. and can't find any threads on sealing rooms ... Any links someone could possibly share with a beginner ??

Thanks for any help given...

~Dream

 

[NiteTiger]

I use black poly and duct tape to seal the room sufficiently to create a negative pressure environment. Doubt it'd pass for Ebola Quarantine, but works well enough for it's use

 

[Dreamscape]

haha... How about airborne diseases ??

Do you use multiple layers ?? How big are the sheets you generally use?? I'm assuming you overlap them of course ...

The room I was thinking of would be between 9x9x8 or 12x12x9 ... somewhere in that range ... dunno if that better helps to give you an idea of what i'll need in order to seal myself off from the rest of the house when I get infected )

Could you give me a basic run through of what you do and what is required in order to truely have your room Sealed ??

Thanks man

~Dream

 

[mrwags]

once your room is built seal ALL CRACKS with this stuff:

http://www.dow.com/styrofoam/na/agtherm/prod/greatstuff.htm


And then put up your reflect wall of choice.


Mr.Wags

 

[Dreamscape]

Thanks!!

 

[NiteTiger]

I used 10x100 6 mil (or 4 mil, can't remember exactly), cost me $13.76 @ Lowe's. Cut the length I needed to run wall to wall, and unfolded it to its 10' width, which left me with an overhang at the floor and ceiling. Aluminum duct tape sealed to walls, ceiling and floor (hardwood). 7' Tarp Zipper Door ($8.96 @ HD, Lowe's doesn't have them).

Windows, I left the blinds up so nothing looks odd from the outside, and cut a peice of poly to overlap the entire window by about a foot on all four sides, and taped it up. Just looks like the lights are off in the room from the outside.

The floor I covered with white vinyl shower curtains (4mil thick 6'x6', $2.33 @ WalMart), taped at the seams, and taped to the polywall and regular walls. Cut a hole for the central A/C register, taped around it. A magnetic vent cover from HD covers it and seals it if I need to.

Regular walls were already white, so I just needed to cover the black poly I'd put up. Did that with a can of spray adhesive applied to more shower curtains, and stuck to the black poly.

Ventilation, I cut a hole in the polywall, and inserted a 6" connector. Sealed that in with my trusty aluminum tape.

hooked up ventilation, and turned on fan, and watched my poly wall suck in, telling me I'd sucessfully created a neg pressure environment.

Of course, if you've got the money to burn, you could avoid all the shower curtains and just pick up panda poly from a hydro store. No freaking way I'm paying $90 a roll though.

 

[Dreamscape]

You're the man Tiger - Goodluck and Thanks a million !!

 

[eucerinop]

shower curtains ghetoo enough?

 

[Kush King]

once you put up any tupe of polly just make sure u tape all croner of it off. Ground sealing what ever it be all the way... once ur fans on Ur room's wall should be suckin in... zipper doors always help they got them at home depot in the paint section...

 

[tweaked]

hey tiger, your hydro shop won't sell you pieces of poly? that's brutal, you should tell them to start selling it by the foot. who the fuck needs a square mile of panda film?

my shop will sell me 10'wide poly by the foot for like 50 cents. i got enough to proof my whole closet and rubbermaid tub for like 5 bucks.

 

[Dreamscape]

Tweaked -

I'm assuming thats local and not an online shop ?

 

[NiteTiger]

Yeah, they'll sell it by the foot, $1.25 per. My way is .44 per.

Plus, I'm talking about a room, not a closet, so for the amount it would've cost to just do my polywall, I could've had a whole roll of my stuff.

 

[NightFire]

I got my panda film from eBay, $60 for a bolt. Tarp zippers from eBay, $12 for 24

 

[NiteTiger]

That's a hell of a deal on the zippers, panda is still to rich for my blood, good deal on it though.

 

[tweaked]

dreamscape - yeah that's local. haha.

and nightfire that's a sweet deal on the zips as well. i paid like 20 bucks for just one of those adhesive zippers. ridiculous!

 

[NightFire]

12 zippers for $14.00. A lot of the other sellers are going that much for 1 zipper.

http://cgi.ebay.com/CINCHTITE-TARP-...ryZ20594QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[whoamI?whoRu!]

who the fuck needs a square mile of panda film?

People who don't screw around with tiny closets?

 

[whoamI?whoRu!]

About sealing rooms....IF you keep a vaccum on the room, you can almost be sloppy with a standard plastic&tape job. But if you will be leaving the room stagnant at times, you have to pay closer attention to getting a good seal. Use the heavier plastic available from your home supply store and "Tuck" tape on all seams and over staples, paying attention to not creating creases in the tape that could leak. Just look around in the door/window sealing section of your store for various things you can use to beef up the seal on your doorway.

 

[l_d_d]

Imo a "sealed" room is one which has no ventilation, thus totally sealed. Those are the best and sterile rooms imo.

lights usually cooled from another place, co2 added,

..sometimes A/c, maybe dehumidifier.

 

[Guest]

A true sealed room has no intake or exhaust. It is pricey, but definitely worth it.