on 30/11/01 3:35 pm, G.Penate at pen...@rogers.com wrote: > > After having no darkroom for the past 6 years or so, I am now building a 9 x > 8 feet darkroom in my basement. Yesterday I made the framing of the walls, > except the wall where the door will be situated. I am considering a pocket > sliding door and adding 2" of extra moulding all around the inside door > opening, as a way to make it light leaks proof. > > I have to buy the door (sliding or conventional door) by tomorrow and would > love to hear any comments or suggestions people have on that respect. I > know this question is a bit OT but since am going to use the darkroom to > develop/print my pinhole stuff, I thought the "pinhole list police" would > let this one go! > > Hope to hear from anyone having an opinion (direct mail is OK) > > Guillermo > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.???????/discussion/
Dear Guillermo I am surprised you have had no darkroom. I built one a few years ago and the way I solved the light problem was to build a double door. It doesn't have to be an antechambre design, where you stand in a cubicle while closing a door behind you and opening the other, acting as a light trap. What I did was to build stud partitioning and the outer door opened outwards the inner door inwards and made both doors double doors to save space, by each side only taking half the space a normal door would. The saving of space was particularly importanct for the door opening inwards. The doors overlap the walls and have a piece of wood between them all round to create a light trap. They are brilliant; not taking up any space, easy to use and I even made them ogive shape in gothic style. If you want more information I can send you a sketch via a jpeg; but I hope this has at least given you some ideas. All the best Alexis
