Walk in Humidors. Who's Got Em? What Made You Build Them?

[muzz]

We should do a WA Group Project. We already have an engineer, and plasterer.... and i'll be there for moral support

Has anybody got a source for spanish cedar in WA??? I have the perfect room at my place just need the kids to be a little older so they can be kicked out of the space!

[polarbear]

Has anybody got a source for spanish cedar in WA??? I have the perfect room at my place just need the kids to be a little older so they can be kicked out of the space!

Mahogany will work too, it just won't smell as nice

[bugg4672]

@chriswalker very nice walk in brother, you got something to be proud of. Show it off every chance you get.

[airtrade]

The cost to build my walkin was approximately 1300 cdn dollars...a third of that was the Spanish cedar shelves...most of the building materials I acquired on sale...did all the work myself other than the drywall taping...fortunately the climate here makes it easy to maintain a safe and constant temperature in my basement for the cigars...when I sell this house I will take the cedar with me...everything else is cheap to rebuild...a friend of mine converted a bedroom closet for half the cost of mine...turned out great for him...

Great project! I have thought about something like that but that's as far as I get. Lol.

Oh I can sit down smoke a cigar and plan the whole thing out,the execution always escapes me.

[chriswalker]

Thanks for all the positive comments amigos...when I bought the house I was toiling with 6 humidors to keep all the stock...so the building of the walk in was nothing compared to the regular upkeep of all those humis ...glad that I saved all my cigar boxes because the cigars were put back in after walkin was done...it's been humidified using a Honeywell 3 gallon cool moisture unit...with regular tap water. ..and a separate circulation fan...which has served well with no mold issues what so ever....i fill the tank every 3 weeks in the winter and every 2 months in the summer...hoping to one day to plumb a waterline from the wet bar next to walkin and set up a humidifier that is self operating...the honey wells are around 70 dollars and I am on my forth one...

[La_Tigre]

Reviving this one to see who else has built and has current guidance. Would love to do something portable for the capability of taking it with us. 

[Kitchen]

We are currently looking for a new house, out in the country, an old farmhouse with a bank barn and a nice 6 foot hearth with a beehive oven.  I know that is asking for a lot already, but I would love to find one with a real cellar around 20 feet or so underground.  Not so much for a humidor, but to convert into a wine/cheese/charcuterie cave.  

[Fuzz]

Coming from an Aussie perspective, but what the fudging heck is a "bank barn"? A place where you keep your neighbours livestock and charge them a monthly fee, or where you go for livestock loans?

Dude - "Good morning, I'd like to take a loan."

Bank Barn - "Certainly sir, What would you like; sheep, cows, pigs? And for what term?"

[Hammer Smokin']

a bank barn is a place to house your batteries for your renewable energy power production. 

[Chibearsv]

11 hours ago, Fuzz said:

Coming from an Aussie perspective, but what the fudging heck is a "bank barn"? A place where you keep your neighbours livestock and charge them a monthly fee, or where you go for livestock loans?

Dude - "Good morning, I'd like to take a loan."

Bank Barn - "Certainly sir, What would you like; sheep, cows, pigs? And for what term?"

I've got no clue either but since you only asked about the bank barn, you must know, what the heck is a beehive oven?  And no, I will not accept "a place to bake your beehive" as an answer.

[Kitchen]

12 hours ago, Fuzz said:

Coming from an Aussie perspective, but what the fudging heck is a "bank barn"? A place where you keep your neighbours livestock and charge them a monthly fee, or where you go for livestock loans?

Dude - "Good morning, I'd like to take a loan."

Bank Barn - "Certainly sir, What would you like; sheep, cows, pigs? And for what term?"

It's a two level barn built into a bank or hill so each level is at grade, on either sides of course.  On one side you can walk into the basement; on the other, after walking up a small hill, you can walk into the main level.  They are not uncommon in the Northeast USA

As for a beehive oven, it is a brick oven shaped like a beehive that is built near the main fireplace and shares the same flue.  Early ones tend to be built into the actual fireplace, behind where the main cooking fire would be lit, whereas later ones are next to the fireplace with an angled vent into the flue.  

[Fuzz]

7 hours ago, Kitchen said:

It's a two level barn built into a bank or hill so each level is at grade, on either sides of course.  On one side you can walk into the basement; on the other, after walking up a small hill, you can walk into the main level.  They are not uncommon in the Northeast USA

 

Huh. I prefer my definition.

[El Presidente]

it's amazing what you learn in this place 

[dominattorney]

On 11/29/2021 at 5:10 PM, Kitchen said:

We are currently looking for a new house, out in the country, an old farmhouse with a bank barn and a nice 6 foot hearth with a beehive oven.  I know that is asking for a lot already, but I would love to find one with a real cellar around 20 feet or so underground.  Not so much for a humidor, but to convert into a wine/cheese/charcuterie cave.  

I wanna be neighbors with you. 

[Kitchen]

8 hours ago, dominattorney said:

I wanna be neighbors with you. 

You have no idea how much I want to make my own Prosciutto and Rochefort Blue without needing a dedicated refrigerator that has been modified to hold a high humidity with no moving air.  I would love to have a real cave to work with.