Smell control for a house...I need some.

[Rabbi]

if arousing neighbor suspicion or guests at your house is ur concern, the only sure fire way i know of is to simply fry garlic in the morning. 2 tablespoons, slow simmerred. stinks the whole house up all day & nite. repeat in morning. takes 2 minutes to. costs 3 bux for a large vat of minced garlic. it does not stick to clothes like onions or other concoctions people use. another less potent route is boiling water & adding cinnamon sticks, sugar, & orange slices & peels. this stays on the stove simmering & really does stink the house up, but with a good odor. just not as masking as garlic. since the smell is worst for me during the last wks of flower & def worst at harvest, i usually only have to fry the garlic for a few weeks. no big deal. but i am damn sure nobody can smell any skunkiness when i do it. peace of mind is a great thing. i have a huge can fan & 10lbs of carbon too, but i still need the air wicks & garlic. the Paradise fragrance works best with herb smell. it smells hawaaian & kinda herbal itself, so it blends well for our purposed. Berry medley also works well. costco has a combo pack of 5 refills & warmer for 8 buxx rite now on sale. thats a steal.

lol do you really do all that stuff or are you just messing with me? Anyways I think im gonna try the bigger filter and fan first but thx for the advice though.

 

[Rabbi]

Hey do carbon filters get lighter over time from using the carbon? Cause I've had mine for at least a year and it still feels as heavy as the day I bought it.

 

[Nor'Easter]

excellent glad you got help and I did too, thanks for understanding. yes I have been a bit apprehensive with making a sealed room and having to rely on AC. (All sealed rooms need AC?) I have a cool basement and would want to reuse the air to bring up the temp a little so I do not have to burn the wood stove for heat.

 

[coconaut]

Hey do carbon filters get lighter over time from using the carbon? Cause I've had mine for at least a year and it still feels as heavy as the day I bought it.

The carbon doesn't go anywhere.
Activated carbon is kinda like a sponge. The organic compounds that you smell in the air get trapped in the porous carbon as they pass through. Eventually though, the carbon simply gets filled up and can hold no more.

 

[darksith]

excellent glad you got help and I did too, thanks for understanding. yes I have been a bit apprehensive with making a sealed room and having to rely on AC. (All sealed rooms need AC?) I have a cool basement and would want to reuse the air to bring up the temp a little so I do not have to burn the wood stove for heat.

again you can have a vent to provide A/C blowing into your room. The room doesn't need to be sealed, just under negative pressure. Sealing a room is simply to make it easier to keep the room under constant negative pressure. When the A/C kicks in and starts blowing into your room that will be just like having another intake fan, so you will simply need to make sure you exhaust fan has the balls to keep that room pressure in the neg's.

 

[Matanuskan Flo]

i am being dead serious. hahaha, sounds funny i know. i have brought it up before too. but, unless you have actually tried frying a few tbspns of it, don't discount its validity. Darksith, i have much less than 1kw, but, i would think that at my harvest times, the smell at that point equals or surpasses the normal smell under a 1kw. It is an extreme solution to the problem i know, but it really does work. I mean, it does make me sick to my stomach sometimes to wake up in the morning, exit the bedroom & stilll just smell that garlic remnant odor. thats why i said, i only did do it for a the few final weeks when odor was strongest. any longer & i would have focused energies on building a correct set-up in the first place which wouldn;t have these odor issues. sorry if I am adding fluff per say, but just trying to help. i, again, say just try it & let me know haha.

 

[darksith]

Darksith, i have much less than 1kw, but, i would think that at my harvest times, the smell at that point equals or surpasses the normal smell under a 1kw.

First why do you think your grow is stinkier than anyone elses?
Second I can understand that frying garlic can help the smell in your situation, but there is no way that frying garlic is going to mask any sort of smell from a 12" exhaust hose going straight outside. I have had situations where my filter fan blew up on me and I had to goto an old squirrel cage fan and blow it straight up the chimney hoping some of that carbon would soak up the smell. Needless to say it didn't and I stunk up an entire city block almost for a couple days until I got a new fan. So thats where Im coming from, there is no way garlic is going to help out. Bottom line, don't be cheap buy a filter and stay safe!

 

[FirstTimer10]

I know that you can re-activate carbon by baking it in an oven for a while. Might want to try that too if you can get the carbon out of the filter.

 

[Xero000]

Sounds to me like the problem is coming from seepage during the light cycle when you have exhaust OFF and therefore lose your negative pressure. If that's the way you wnat to roll you'll need to make sure everything is 100% sealed including intakes when you are without neg, pressure but I would think that'd surely cause heat issues.

 

[]A[Boss]

carbon filter and a vaportek

 

[Matanuskan Flo]

darksth, i did not mean to imply or compete in bud stinkage, obviously. i just was explaining my scenario further to help others understand how garlic helped me situation. but, if it makes you happy, yours is the stinkiest.

anyways, i would never exhaust outside my house, even thru a dryer duct. i doubt i would ever have a set-up that would dictate doing so. but, since the OP just said the word "space" to describe his set-up, maybe he is not using 1kw & venting outdoors etc etc.....either way, i do agree with everrrryone & say that it is best to fix the cause than treat the symptom with fried garlic. but, garlic is $3. a new can fan, ventilation set up, sealing a room, or whatever needs to be done is much more than $3...

 

[Hydrosun]

And now for a helpful answer

And now for a helpful answer

The product pictured below is great. It is a 3,000sq ft model. I have it in the middle of my house and I have a 4,0000sq ft model in the attic.

They also make an induct product that works the whole house! I may add one of those in this summer if the stink comes back but it is way gone now.


As you can see the portable guys are smaller than a 3gal bucket! The product name is BioZone. Do some internet research and the buy away!

Peace,

 

[darksith]

darksth, i did not mean to imply or compete in bud stinkage, obviously. i just was explaining my scenario further to help others understand how garlic helped me situation. but, if it makes you happy, yours is the stinkiest.

Wow you took my stinkiest comment completely wrong, maybe reread it
and I also said "Second I can understand that frying garlic can help the smell in your situation." so b4 you become all rightchous on me be advised I was not ragging on you, just trying to guide peeps to the safest best investment they will ever make. Even if its just for tokin and smokin, it removes all odor. you could get setup for under $100 for the size of show you are hinting at.

 

[Rabbi]

The product pictured below is great. It is a 3,000sq ft model. I have it in the middle of my house and I have a 4,0000sq ft model in the attic.

They also make an induct product that works the whole house! I may add one of those in this summer if the stink comes back but it is way gone now.


As you can see the portable guys are smaller than a 3gal bucket! The product name is BioZone. Do some internet research and the buy away!

Peace,

Big thx man I will forsure look into this

 

[The Sensi Rebel]

I just have inline fans (4" and 6") for my flower cab.. is it okay to use the can filters with those? or am i "supposed to" pick up that that brand of blowers because it's specially designed for the filter.