Building a smaller darkroom.

[Goodyear]

Rather than hijack BJ's thread...

Our solicitor has just confirmed that tomorrow we will receive the keys to our new house.

It has a double-length (not -width!) garage adjoined, which we plan eventually to split for a utility-room (washer, drier, etc) and a darkroom. But not knowing exactly how this will go, and wanting to keep the space as flexible as possible...

Any experiences with Nova's darkroom-tent-thing? I'm thinking it will be cheaper than putting in walls, yet could still be treated as (semi-) permanent while not committing us to chopping up the space in a certain way - yet a darkroom is a bit of a priority to get organised.

But is it any good?

 

[markinlondon]

http://www.rogerandfrances.com/ has a bit about these. Go to the "our darkrooms" article in the photo school. They look a bit cramped to me, my darkroom's small enough as it is.

 

[Sparrow]

Just consider the dust, and fibres from the utility room but mainly dust, I probably should have put dust in big letters, concrete is terrible for making dust.

 

[BJ Bignell]

Putting up stick walls isn't that hard, but I don't know your skills and how much it would cost in your part of the world. The tents look interesting, and certainly they do solve a specific type of problem, but I wonder about ventilation... It seems scary to be in a big plastic bag like that.

With a proper room, you could lay down some linoleum flooring for easy clean-up and reduced dust, insulate the walls, and then heat the room to something much warmer than you would typically keep your garage. With walls, you could also better control where you run the water and drainage, rather than being limited to whatever the tent offers for inlets/outlets.

Oh, and congratulations on getting a new home. Best of luck!

BJ