Yes i am going to use the whole thing. And is ready for heat just drop in furnace and good to go. Garage had heat before and is insulated just furnace is gone lol. Hook ups and all still there.I live in Saskatchewan so same temps pretty much.Treated lumber won't rot for decades. Or regular 2x4s sitting on something like cement blocks, bricks, short pieces of scrap 2x4s.
Don't know how much you know about framing but could frame it up like a wall and lay it flat then level it up good then cover with at least 1/2 OSB or whatever you can find cheap. Are you using the whole garage area? That'll cost a pretty penny.
I have the same kind of carport here that I've been thinking of just walling off the back 10' and basically building a 10x15 room inside the carport. The carport is 24x34' with this crappy red shale that runs up the driveway to the highway in front. Gets everywhere! I've had the place for 16 years.
What are your winters like and is the garage heated? I'll be using 2x6 for construction if I ever do it but probably won't. Get down to -35C here in the winter and +35 in the summer in northern Alberta. I have enough room in my cool basement to add an 8x4' grow space to my existing flowering room but took over an upstairs bedroom for vegging plants last fall. The basement is really just a concrete box under the house for the plumbing and stuff for our dugout water. Stupid setup IMO as if there is ever a serious leak it's lower than the dugout and I'll end up with a 10x24' below ground swimming pool. Already had 8" of water in down there a few years back when there was a drainage blockage down the road from us during the fast spring melt. Fast melt this spring too with more snow than usual but no water in the basement since they fixed the problem. Still had to get the province to send out a loader to clear the culverts or might have had another flood. No cost to me tho.
Yeah the indoor rain I can do without lolYou'll be golden in the winter then. Just keep the whole garage cooler and have no problems with heat in your plants. Might need A/C in the summer tho. Nice and cool in my basement so A/C is not needed ever. I do want to get a portable A/C unit so I can run my flowering room sealed with CO2 and be able to do something about my chronically low humidity. Burning my plants up because they suck up too much nutes with all the extra water they use when RH is too low.
My last place in town had a nice 20x24' insulated/heated garage and I built a small grow room inside it. Found out the hard way not to vent the grow room into the unheated attic. Was raining inside come the spring and looked like a winter wonderland up there from all the frost buildup from the grow room.
With the way pot prices are headed is it worth the effort now? I just grow for myself and share with a few friends when they need some. All but 1 is a medpot patient and he's my fishing buddy.
Sorry just realized I really didn’t answer all of your question lol. No not planning on using a flip controller just cause of different ballasts being used and I like to know that I don’t have to be around 24/7. Each room will be separate from each other in all aspects as far as climate.With the way pot prices are headed is it worth the effort now? I just grow for myself and share with a few friends when they need some. All but 1 is a medpot patient and he's my fishing buddy.
How are you going to configure the rooms? Flip flops for lights? If I build my addition downstairs I was planning on doing that and a conjoined ventilation system so the warm room can heat the cooler room when it's lights are out and visa versa. Just not ambitious enough and thinking of selling the farm, splitting the leftover with the c/l wife and heading out on my own.
Sounds like a cool project.
Flips don't need you to switch them and then you only need one ballast for two lights. If you already have most of the lights it doesn't much matter then.
Problem is the cost of concrete is twice the cost of a new garage.
Out of curiosity what have the quotes been?
Nothing nicer then a heated floor, but I'd end up moving my bed into the garage.
Yeah I wouldn’t use osb for a floor. Was thinking 3/4” tongue and grove plywood.
