orangedog
Navin R Johnson
There have been a number of topics about building a walk-in or a closet conversion, such as Vegan's great thread:
http://www.botl.org/community/forums/showthread.php?t=49614
There was also an old thread on cooling a closet:
http://www.botl.org/community/forums/showthread.php?t=5965
Just wanted to ping the knowledge base here to see if there are new solutions or ideas on cooling a closet?
I have an area of my house controlled by an air conditioner... the total area is probably about 20' x 16'. I usually keep this area of the house at about 85F, because I don't use it that often, and being a small area with its own A/C unit, I can cool it down really quickly if I want to spend time in there.
There is a closet in this room, about 5'l x 6'w x 10'h. The closet has its own door (on a hinge, not a slider). I'd like to turn this into a walk-in humi, and place to store a handful of bottles of red wine. Ideally, it would stay somewhere between 62F and 67F... with 62F being preferred.
What are ideas to cool it? A couple of points... I can knock a hole through the wall... the closet has two external walls. I wouldn't mind putting in a small hole to act like a vent for a mini-A/C unit, but I would prefer to not knock a hole so large as to put a wall-mount A/C unit-sized hole in the external wall.
Are there any refrigeration units that would work for this space? Maybe a thermo-type unit?
I have drywall up now, with insulation behind it. I'll have to get a better door, and will probably put up some type of liner/board beneath cedar walling. In other words, I'm hoping that this will maintain its own environment with minimal influence from the hot and dry adjacent room.
Any thoughts?
http://www.botl.org/community/forums/showthread.php?t=49614
There was also an old thread on cooling a closet:
http://www.botl.org/community/forums/showthread.php?t=5965
Just wanted to ping the knowledge base here to see if there are new solutions or ideas on cooling a closet?
I have an area of my house controlled by an air conditioner... the total area is probably about 20' x 16'. I usually keep this area of the house at about 85F, because I don't use it that often, and being a small area with its own A/C unit, I can cool it down really quickly if I want to spend time in there.
There is a closet in this room, about 5'l x 6'w x 10'h. The closet has its own door (on a hinge, not a slider). I'd like to turn this into a walk-in humi, and place to store a handful of bottles of red wine. Ideally, it would stay somewhere between 62F and 67F... with 62F being preferred.
What are ideas to cool it? A couple of points... I can knock a hole through the wall... the closet has two external walls. I wouldn't mind putting in a small hole to act like a vent for a mini-A/C unit, but I would prefer to not knock a hole so large as to put a wall-mount A/C unit-sized hole in the external wall.
Are there any refrigeration units that would work for this space? Maybe a thermo-type unit?
I have drywall up now, with insulation behind it. I'll have to get a better door, and will probably put up some type of liner/board beneath cedar walling. In other words, I'm hoping that this will maintain its own environment with minimal influence from the hot and dry adjacent room.
Any thoughts?
