Timeline for How to eliminate odor from crawl space
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| Jan 30, 2018 at 6:37 | comment | added | fixer1234 | Exhausting it to the outside would be quite a challenge. It could probably be ducted between floor joists to get it to the other end of the basement and then tie it into an existing exhaust duct, but it would be a very long run. A simpler version might be to not exhaust it outside, just blow it through something like a big activated charcoal filter and then recirculate it. But this gives me a bunch of possibilities to investigate. | |
| Jan 30, 2018 at 5:12 | comment | added | DrMoishe Pippik | Since it's in an unheated storage room, I've left the fan running summer and [cold!] winter. There are two layers of insect screen (both sides of fan). Cutting through stone, though, would be an issue. Can you dig underneath and put a fan in plastic pipe, well above ground level? | |
| Jan 30, 2018 at 2:11 | comment | added | fixer1234 | An approach I hadn't thought about. There would be a few obstacles to deal with (hole through stone exterior, sealing it during the winter and summer, and a few other issues). 100 CFM would turn over the air once/hr, which could be enough to keep the odor down. I'll have to explore this. Thanks for the idea. | |
| Jan 30, 2018 at 1:44 | history | answered | DrMoishe Pippik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |