When receiving quotes for prefab C1D1 booths, it may be tempting to save a few bucks and build your own C1D1 booth. While it may seem like a good idea to build your own C1D1 room, this is not usually advisable to do so for the following reasons:
-Safety: C1D1 prefabricated rooms are meticulously designed to meet strict safety standards and regulations. This includes testing, quality control, third party reviews, and more. This is often not the case with homemade labs, and a small oversight in your DIY project could have major consequences.
Hidden Costs: While the upfront costs may seem to be lower, once you add in the cost of mistakes, installation, peer reviewing, engineering, designs, and potential noncompliance, these costs may outweigh the price of a prefabricated C1D1 room.
Legalities and regulations: Building your own C1D1 booth means you’re responsible for ensuring it complies with all relevant regulations and building codes. Prefabricated labs have already endured the stringent testing and requirements of engineering firms and have already been approved in many states and municipalities, taking some of the guesswork out of the situation.
Timing: Our prefabricated rooms can be mobilized within 3-4 weeks beginning to end, in contrast, a typical design and build for a homemade C1D1 booth can be months on end as each trade needs to review and sign off on the lab piece by piece.
Modularity: Modular C1D1 booths can be broken down and moved to a new facility if needed, meaning you are not stuck with staying in the same building forever. If required, these labs can also be expanded or reduced in size to grow with you as you move to a larger closed loop extractor.
Installation/Tear down: For ?homemade? C1D1 labs, these are typically built out of a room with drywall, insulation, or various building materials. These are put onto an existing room in a building, and hence cannot be taken with you when you leave. In contrast, a prefabricated C1D1 booth is made from 18GA steel, and can be torn down/moved at any time! This gives you the flexibility and freedom to move to another facility if needed.
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