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My attic grow room construction
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Thanks guys.
Don't have an A/C uniit yet. The room is hooked up to my main house A/C unit, but it hasnt been hot enough to turn it out yet....for the main house anyways.
Our summers stay in the 90's. My attic hit 100 sometime last week. But the room stayed at 85 with just the air from the house circulating in it. I'm just going to wait and buy the portable A/C when I need it.
whatapothead
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bryant. quick question for you that i hope you'll know.
i have a 18x36 shop with 16-18' ceiling.... i have a 8x11x8 veg room and a 8x8x8 flower room. both made out of 2x4s and poly. no insulation.
as summer comes up my temps are slowly rising. my question is... do i buy a big ass AC to cool the whole shop? or build a frame and just get a decent window unit for each room?
my last thread they said just cool the rooms.. but then another guy said my exhaust is just going to pull the cooled air out and it would just run 100% of the time.
any idea?
sorry to jump in but thats what you get when you build such a tight attic op. +rep
i have a 18x36 shop with 16-18' ceiling.... i have a 8x11x8 veg room and a 8x8x8 flower room. both made out of 2x4s and poly. no insulation.
as summer comes up my temps are slowly rising. my question is... do i buy a big ass AC to cool the whole shop? or build a frame and just get a decent window unit for each room?
my last thread they said just cool the rooms.. but then another guy said my exhaust is just going to pull the cooled air out and it would just run 100% of the time.
any idea?
sorry to jump in but thats what you get when you build such a tight attic op. +rep
Thanks for the comments.
If you can, and you have the means, I would go with a window unit. I've done EXTENSIVE research on the portable a/c units and the don't hold up to the old window units. And the portable ones cost alittle more. Unfortunatly, mine will have to be a portable unit because of the odd shape and construction of my room.
Any airconditioner is going to bring your elec bills up and run alot longer, but alot of guys here to work with them ok. I'm guessing one will cost you 20-40 dollars a month.
If your fan is too big for your room, then yes, I think it would pull the cool air out before it has time to cool the room. Both of my fans move 424 cfm. One does seem to do the trick. I've plugged both in and they would suck my door shut! So 848 cfm was too much for my room bscause it was sucking hot air from my attic into my room through unsealed areas. The 424 might be alittle too big as well. I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
LOL,I havn't even bought one yet, so maybe I'm not the best person to ask about this. But I've researched them for about 2 years now. I'm kinda waiting till I really have to have one. I'm waiting for one real hot day to put my main house a/c on and see what it does for the grow room.
smokeOntheH2O
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whatapothead. i have the same problem and my portable a/c unit is on high all of the time with the temp set the lowest and it still has trouble controlling a 10x12 with only 1 1000watt hps in it. i would suggest a window unit if the smell will not be a problem or exhaust your light as the a/c will def run up your electric bill. also inline fans run pretty cheap, i found a 210 cfm around 60 bucks that only pulls 1 amp to hook up to my light.
hey bryant.
you seem like a very handy guy. so i have some suggestions for your temperature concerns.
first is to install a good size fan in your attic to push air from the attic to the outside of the house. i assume you have some type of venting around the eve of your house that would draw fresh air in to replace the hot air. this would also help pull heat from ALL areas of the attic. you can hook this fan up to a thermistor switch and set it so the fan only runs when your attic temperature reaches a certain temperature.
2nd point is to consider the roof of your house. mainly the color of it. the lighter shade of color it is, the less heat it will absorb. i cant believe it when i see homes and businesses that actually have black roofs. sometimes i feel like knocking on the door to tell them to paint it white.
not only will either of those suggestions help keep your new club house cooler, but they will also help keep your entire house cooler and save money on your electric bill.
and by the way.
awesome job on the penthouse apartment.
thats the type of stuff i always think about doing but am always too lazy to actually do.
you seem like a very handy guy. so i have some suggestions for your temperature concerns.
first is to install a good size fan in your attic to push air from the attic to the outside of the house. i assume you have some type of venting around the eve of your house that would draw fresh air in to replace the hot air. this would also help pull heat from ALL areas of the attic. you can hook this fan up to a thermistor switch and set it so the fan only runs when your attic temperature reaches a certain temperature.
2nd point is to consider the roof of your house. mainly the color of it. the lighter shade of color it is, the less heat it will absorb. i cant believe it when i see homes and businesses that actually have black roofs. sometimes i feel like knocking on the door to tell them to paint it white.
not only will either of those suggestions help keep your new club house cooler, but they will also help keep your entire house cooler and save money on your electric bill.
and by the way.
awesome job on the penthouse apartment.
thats the type of stuff i always think about doing but am always too lazy to actually do.
Madhadda
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Good tips bro!
I just hit this thread for the first time. Read it all. Fantastic work man. Watching what you turned that into. Well done sir. Im assuming heat isnt an issue yet? If its in the mid 80s. Id expect it to be a problem soon? But!!! If that room is cooled by your home AC you have nothing to worry about when it hits 90+ in your home. Try and keep the temps below 90
Hope my input helps and subscriped +rep.
joshbigbuds
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make sure them pesky pigs in the eye in the sky dont see
Thanks man. yeah, I've thought of the attic fan idea. The only problem is I might need 2-3 of them because of how my roof is divided. That is still an option for me. As far as the shingle color goes. I'm pretty far away from having my roof redone. And yes, of course my shingles are black
. They werent doing alot of "green construction" back when my house was built. If I had it all to do over again, i would have had my attic trusses insulated with the Icecyene foam spray. i think I could have had it done for about 1200-1800 hundred from a buddy of mine. That cuts your attic temps way down in the summer, which keeps your house temps down as well. And I could have claimed it on my taxes. Thanks bro. Yeah, we wil see what happens. I have yet to see if plants can do ok when temps reach 90. I know everyone says stay below 80, but my brother used to grow outside for years. And the summers here get well above 90. Am I right in thinking that???? I just ahvnt been that worried about I guess to really research it. I guess I'll do that now and see what I find.Good tips bro!
I just hit this thread for the first time. Read it all. Fantastic work man. Watching what you turned that into. Well done sir. Im assuming heat isnt an issue yet? If its in the mid 80s. Id expect it to be a problem soon? But!!! If that room is cooled by your home AC you have nothing to worry about when it hits 90+ in your home. Try and keep the temps below 90
Hope my input helps and subscriped +rep.
Iknow it's been awhile since I gave an update, so I promise I will give one this weekend.
Thanks man. I just hope this tread helps out some people. I've seen plenty of threads on here about attic grows, but noone ever follows through to the end. I've stated that I didnt intend to follow through with a journal, but i might take it through one round of flowering.
Trust me, I've done so much research on the "FLIR" technology that I could give a seminar on it. First, they need a warrent to do it. So If they have a warrent, your already fucked. Second, the ceiling in my room is dropped below the roof decking due to how my roof trusses were constructed. This allows no thermal bridging to occur. Third, I checked to see im local police department has a helicopter, and they don't. I just read the county next to mine had to sell theirs because they couldn't afford it anymore. And forth, when they check for hear signatures, they mainly check for the heat coming from your lights. My lights are not vented directly outside. I plan on just venting my small 600HPS to my main attic. So I pretty sure I'm safe.
Tyrannabudz
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Look at your local Habitat for Humanity outlet. They have tons of useful stuff including all types of air conditioners that work and are super cheap. Definitely worth a look.
TRICKKY
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Looking good!
You'll be fine with 1 600w in a cooltube, I have had 3 running in a similar set ups for years, and have had no problems, and there a chopper up almost every other night in my neck of the woods. As long as you have cool air passing through the cool tube then the end product should be warm air at the most, certainly not hot enough to cause a problem.
Good luck dude.
You'll be fine with 1 600w in a cooltube, I have had 3 running in a similar set ups for years, and have had no problems, and there a chopper up almost every other night in my neck of the woods. As long as you have cool air passing through the cool tube then the end product should be warm air at the most, certainly not hot enough to cause a problem.
Good luck dude.
Madhadda
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All good. I can understand that concept. Im just thinking that indoor = less fresh air? I dunno. Its hard to grasp the differences. Just lower the temp if it becomes an issue
Looking forward to your updates
bleedintears
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hey when are we going to get some updates i am extremely anxious to see them and by the way how are the clones doing
bleedintears
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hey you think hes still alive?