Ultimate Smoke Filtration Update | Taking it to the MAXX! | Kirby Allison 

You may want to test the path the air is taking in the room when your system is running at higher power. Just like streams and rivers have channels that flow faster than others, you may have corners of your room that are stagnating while the intake fan essentially pulls a vacuum of clean air straight to itself from any point outside air enters the room, which drastically reduces the effectiveness of the system. Basically, if doesn't matter how much air is being filtered if it's only processing the clean air coming in from outside. A good test can be done with a laser pointer. Turn off the lights in the room, turn your filter system on at various speeds, and use a red laser pointer to illuminate the smoke particles in the room while your system is doing its thing. It will make it easy to spot air pockets that aren't moving, and it might be as simple as a small fan positioned carefully to keep those pockets circulating.

Great video! I enjoy a cigar on rare occasion but I find your filtration updates very interesting. Thanks.

Kirby cracks me up every time 😂

Amazing to see the system and the process. Cigar smoking is the best kind of obsession! I also started to use the Berger Lamp system at home on the recommendation of Rekha when I visited No6. They have so many wonderful scents and the strength of it can work to counteract the smell of a cigar. Wish I could have sampled the gigantes! The entire Patel family were so welcoming and hospitable when I was there. Can't wait to get back.

Livin the dream and looking great Kirby. Cheers bud.

Great Video. I learned a lot about the filtration systems.

I am so happy to see you have found the Berger lamp! I have three myself made in Baccarat crystal from the early 1900s. Totally mind-boggling effect.

One of my favorite things is watching Kirby in a bespoke suit changing carbon canisters 😂 Btw is there not a spare room in the new house to make into a lounge? Absolutely love the filtration system and hopefully one day will have something similar 🍻

Excellent Kirby, we all benefit greatly from your pursuit of perfection. For those of us who are interested in smoking inside, which we can agree is a daily luxury, but who doesn't have a five figure budget for air filtration, I would recommend a Rabbit Air A3 with a 6-stage filtration including a BioGS HEPA filter. You are able to monitor the air quality in the Rabbit Air app (PM 1, 2.5 and 10). I have had up to six friends smoking pipes in my living room at the same time and the Rabbit Air takes care of all smoke and odor. For cigars I have built a separate smoke lounge utilizing a Purifan (five stage filtration and activated charcoal) combined with an AC Infinity Cloudline Pro T8 which is a powerful inline duct fan, yet very quiet (42 decibel on highest setting). Both of these "systems" can be obtain for $1000 or less each.

I’m actually really surprised that high tech system didn’t have a HEPA filter already. Even my simple rabbit air at home has one. As for diffuser, I have something similar from Ashleigh & Burwood. It works really wel after I’ve smoked a cigar in my cigar room, especially with some stronger scents like cedar.

Great video, Kirby! I’ll be in Dallas at the end of the month. I would love to have opportunity to visit! Keep up the good work!

Friend: coughs once Kirby: ……. *Spares no expense*

great video!

Getting more tolerant friends is cheaper…

Excellent Kirby as always. But just remember happy Wife = Happy Life, unless you enjoy the temperature going up!🤣🤣🤣 I have a HEPA filtration system as I have been diagnosed with COPD (I already had Asthma and Permanent AFIB). I have always enjoyed good cigar and Pipe tobacco aromas, so even though I can't smoke anymore I enjoy these still. I used to many many years ago enjoy my French cigarettes sans filtres but did not like the after odours so I had mobile air filters back then. But good quality cigar and Whiskey/Cognac/Armagnac odours are still amongst my eau de vie's. Thanks again.

excellent video, thank you

Camfill will become experts in smoke filtration thats forsure.

This is absolutely fantastic Kirby! I highly admire the science behind this and it is awesome to see your dedication to this niche but highly important factor. Your home is now a hospital 😆

impressive Data

Enlarging the intake & exhaust with honeycomb sheet grills would be a useful upgrade smoothing airflow disruption though the room. IE swirling & mixing of the air.

Older styles of cigars were generally milder and produced less smoke than we mostly seem to like now. Do you think the shift from mostly smoking cigars indoors, to mostly smoking outdoors changed our preferred cigars? Some cigars I've smoked have smoke thats barely even visible outdoors and on the other hand a tiny liga privada t52 coronet (4x32 i think) puts out a literal smoke screen if there's little wind.

It’s a pity that we, cigar lovers, are caught in the sweeping ban of smoking targeting cigarettes primarily! Oddly enjoyable ride watching your overkill of a filtration system evolving. Cheers

Kirby did you record while you were in Cuba? If so, will you be posting a video? It would make for a great watch. Thank you

Adding a lot of resistance across the system. Definitely effective though. Wouldn’t bother with the panel filter at the back(not that it’ll get blocked). Once the carbons settled there shouldn’t be any breaches. I’d even toy with dropping the rating of your ‘pre-filter’ simply for saving energy usage. Very impressed, it’s nice to overkill a problem sometimes.

Kirby is very considerate. There is an argument to be made that guests should be somewhat accommodating to the peccadillo of the host.

Very interesting Kirby! Does the added HEPA filter slow down the circulation? Edit: you should also check the components of the diffusor liquid! A lot of the ingredients used in these oils are carcinogenic and/or liver damaging.

How was it concluded that you needed to turn over the air every 2-3 minutes ? would turning over the air every 10-15 minutes work just as well ? it seems excessive to turn over the air that much ? I am looking to do the very same thing with air filtration that you have just done.

Love the content Kirby. When are you going to release the Cuba content?

Hello Mr. Allison, I am a Patreon and a RU-vid member. I was curious when Edward and Eddie Sahakian come and visit you. would you consider doing a live stream for your patreon?

Kirby hiding that weed smoke from his wife😂

To have a room with smokers and non-smokers and not have the non-smokers smell cigar is unlikely. The distribution system has to draw the air away from the non-smoker to the smoker. Also the non-smoker may be more sensitive to the smoke. And to not have the smoke smell in other rooms in the house the smoking room should be treated as a sealed room like a clean room. All wall ceiling, wall floor joints have to be sealed, doors sealed, light switches, receptacles and any other penetrations have to be sealed. Then you can do an air pressure test on the room to see how tight it is.

Why not exhaust the smoke vs filtering. I feel like In order to get the air to “Ambient” conditions would require a finer micron filter with a lot of activated carbon which will effectively cause more resistance thus mulling your CFM/Air changer per minute. Exhausting to the Atmosphere is always going to be the best way IMO. Great video and detail!

Hey Kirby I will be a volunteer on the updated air filtration controlled environment in your office. Will you be supplying the cigars.

Kirby is it true that lighting a cigar with matches instead of a gas lighter preserves the flavour?

Hey Kirby. Can you make a video about your wedding band. It always catches my eye, and I find it beatiful. Thanks.

I’m sorry Kirby, but molecular filtration unfortunately does not filter out CO2 hahaha only enough ventilation or air changes in a room can remove CO2 out of a room. Please let us know if you would find a way to filter CO2 … that would help the world a lot 😅 Great video as always, Thank you

Kirby - you've touched on a lot of important technical considerations for a cigar room, but if takes air 3 to 5 minutes to change, that is a long time. Sure, as cigar smokers we want to rationale that "it's really quick" and "it's more than enough!" - but the reality is that: it's not - especially from the perspective of the non-smoker, like your friend. Consider holding your breath for five minutes and then I think we can agree that 3 to 5 is a long time. In the years I've been enjoying cigars, I've been lucky to travel around the US and the world and smoked in a variety of lounges. Some quite simple and others quite posh. When in London, I typically spend my time in the upstairs lounge at Fox's and have not been to either Cavendish or Davidoff. But two smoking rooms stand out in my mind with regards to smoke abatement: The Sheraton Riyadh in Saudi Arabia and the Davidoff Lounge at The Tobacco Shop of Ridgewood in New Jersey. When it comes to filtration and/or abatement, most lounges place the port in one spot of the room. This means that regardless of origination point, that smoke must make its way across the room to the intake. Along the way, fluid dynamics plays its part and while we think it's a clear and straight path to the intake, the smoke does all kinds of other things (and directions). This is where the point of irritation comes with both smokers and non-smokers alike swatting away the smoke with their hands. The commonality at the Sheraton and Tobacco Shop is the placement of the intake vents. Both places have multiple intake vents that are positioned directly above the chairs of the smokers. The Sheraton has larger intakes while Ridgefield has small, 6" circular ports - the key is that they are above the smoker and the smoke naturally rises and is sucked into the system - never to waft across the room. In my own testing in my smoking room, the best results are always when I set below the exhaust intake. If I sit even four feet away, fluid dynamics takes control and the smoke is not abated as quickly as I desire. And I want immediate abatement. In my room, I don't filter and recirculate. I just don't think it's the way to go. This means that I must make up for 100% replacement with very oversized AC and heating. However, since it's only for a few hours a week, it's an expense I can bear. My other friends practice more of a balance between exhaust and recirculation in their rooms (five of us have our own smoking rooms with differing practices and we compare notes). With all this verbiage in mind, I encourage you to consider intake placement in the room. See if you can position ports above the smoking positions. I think that will be more effective (both with the smoke and cost) than the other solutions you've outlined - and I'm a skeptic of the diffuser thing. My friends use a diffuser in the bathroom of Capitol Cigar in Bethesda, which makes for a wonderful respite while taking a break, but a diffuser in a smoking environment seems like makeup on a pig to me. Good Luck and Thanks for the videos!

Hi ,kindly upload Mr Sahakin henry poole suit final video please sir i am waiting for that from many days

Don't worry Kirby I grew up around clouds of Cohibas, an A-bomb could go off it's long ceased to phase me.

How on earth have they not tested the proper airflow when installing this thing

How does filtration affect your clothing absorbing the smoke odor? If your beautiful suits soak up the smell of cigar then your closet will too. Deer hunters hang their camo in ozone closets to kill their scent. Might work for your ur clothing.

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Seems like it would be cheaper to find a new friend 🤣

When is the Cuba episode coming? Cant wait!!!!

There are some people will complain no matter what you do

Whenever Kirby discusses equipment it reminds me to wonder if he has a Laurastar board.

If your lovely wife doesn't like the smell of cigars, you are toast brother. I can see a future, where you do not smoke cigars inside... :)

I genuinely thought this video was a parody at first.

I think nowadays smoking is prohibited in most Vegas sports books.

Cost of the installation and operation divided by number of cigars smoked during the projected life of the system. I bet that cigar you told Eddie was too much for you to justify is by percentage, not much more than the cheapest cigar.

The t in Dupont is silent btw

Do what we did during the covid freakout: video chat with your friends. A lot cheaper than your current setup.

The cuba video, please

And then you go to kiss the wife goodnight and BAM, cigars anyway.

Some people are just bothered by others enjoying themselves.

On the decoy front you are underestimating your's wife mind. If you only have one scent that is present while a cigar is lit her mind will link the scent to the presence of tobacco smoke becoming substantially more sensitive to the scent. A more devous solution is necessary. Smart diffusers are available one by pura has two scent reservoirs & a control app. By setting up a random scent schedules & occasionally switching the schedules before a smoke properly bamboozling her nose is more than possible. Also a crate of bath bombs is a excellent distraction. GL HF

I feel so british and rich watching these videos

You are certainly blazing the path forward for smoking indoors. Still have you thought of just changing your wife ! A wife in the mold of Gemma Freeman who smokes at home answers all your prayers.

Unless you live in Yukon, smoke outside g. Take care

I can't believe you don't smoke pipes, sure cigars are nice, but the women folk might be more amenable to good pipe smoke.

Imagine spending $20,000 on air filtration as a test run

To be honest, my girlfriend can smell the smoke before theres any possible way its reached her. She SEES it and starts fake coughing at me.

Guys, please do not smoke.

Sad that your FRIEND/ people Make you change who you are….