Hi, Thanks for everyones suggestions, i now have a few ideas to work with.
Regards, Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Ewins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 6:37 PM Subject: Re: Light Proofing a Darkroom. > > Hi, > > > > I'm after some tips on light proofing a bathroom to use as a darkroom. I > > need to lightproof one window and there door way. > > Hi Paul, > I've converted my laundry which has two doors, a window and an > exhaust fan. > > For the doors I bought 50mm wide rubber strip from Clark Rubber and tacked > it around the door so that it overlapped the door frame. I also use a > draught excluder (door snake) at the bottom. > > For the window I got a small sheet of caneite, a sort of very soft > fibreboard. This is cut to the size of the frame with a couple of handles > bolted on to make it easier to get in and out. On the window frame I nailed > strips of 10mm quad to act as a light baffle and to stop the caneite from > being pushed in too far. Even then, I still resort to duct tape as a final > light excluder for when I am developing film. > > For the exhaust fan I simply use a sheet of black cardboard, curved so that > there is an intake/outlet at each end. > > After I had done this I did a "light test" on a bright suuny day, which > showed up a few leaks along the walls/ceiling and around the outside of the > doorframe (I think my house was built by apprentices). These were fixed with > judicious use of opaque filler. > > This may be a little too permanent for your taste, but it does function > prefectly well and there wasn't much chance of Home Beautiful visitng my > laundry anyway. > > Paul Ewins > Melbourne, Australia > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
