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[ibmag]

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I've been doing some research regarding exhaust noise and would like some feedback on what I was thinking.
My new room is 12X20. It's a seperate bldg. from my house but unfortunately it tends to be awfully close to a neighbour. Their cool, but hey, who knows... More like, let's NOT let them know...
Anyhow, I'll be running 6 1000's in it so will need a size large fan, which I have. I got the instructions for making a duck muffler to attach to the fan along with a 10" carbon filter, but like allot of folk, the air noise itself is always a problem. I'm crappy at figuring the pitch on the roof of this bldg but from the 8' ceiling to the ridge cap, it's approx. 4'.
I was thinking of going in thru the gable end and insulating the supreme shit out of it and exhaust the "room" directly into the whole attic. I'll install a couple of those size large turbine roof vents, that need zero power, just below the ridge line to disperse the heated and hopefully NOT stinky air into the ozone.
Watcha think???

ibmag Reviewed by ibmag on 08-12-2007. Curious :question: I've been doing some research regarding exhaust noise and would like some feedback on what I was thinking. My new room is 12X20. It's a seperate bldg. from my house but unfortunately it tends to be awfully close to a neighbour. Their cool, but hey, who knows... More like, let's NOT let them know... Anyhow, I'll be running 6 1000's in it so will need a size large fan, which I have. I got the instructions for making a duck muffler to attach to the fan along with a 10" carbon Rating: 5

[PlantBoxer]

That will work until winter.

My very first set up, I found a sweet spot from the basement to the attic, so I used my hole saw to open up a 4" hole, and ran sewer pipe up thru it, into a closet on main floor, boxed that all in, and then up thru closet ceiling, hole sawed another hole, and ran more sewer pipe up into attic. Up there, I built a suction box, for lack of a better term, then used a decent powered fan, pulling up from basement. Work like a charm......until it snowed!!

I wake up, to about a foot of snow, get out the snow blower, and clean drive way. The very last pass, I'm huffing and puffing, and I just happen to glance up...at my roof...the freaking gigantic hole, that was showing the shingles!!! I damned perfect hole, 6' across, and down to the gutters!!

I was absolutly paralized with fear!! I couldnt think, I knew I was totally exposed, and the freaking cop shop is like 2 miles from me, so they go by all the time!!

I ran like fool, to my garage, and dug out an old propane heater burner I use when I work in a cold area, took it upstairs, and fired it up, blasting at another spot, to make it not look like a circle.

All was well, that was 5-6 years ago now, and makes me laugh like hell sometimes at my stupidity!! I just have to remember there are 4 seasons where I live!!

Just my $.02