JSJ
Well-Known Member
It will never work, I have heard that from more than a dozen people in the last year or so. That's how long this whole project has been in place. My blueprints have changed a time or two here or there but my overall goal has yet to waiver.
So like many people, me and my wife live in a small 2bed house, with a crawl space and ONE bedroom closet. There is absolutely no where in this house to put a decent sized grow except for my attic. (We have my daughter every other week, so the 2nd bedroom is not a possibility.) And so began a year's long adventure to setup a grow in the only place that I have been told it will never work.
So I started out by clearing insulation out of a 8' x 10' area in the back of the attic. I placed 1" thick foam board insulation on the floor and topped it with 1/2" OSB to give me a suitable area to work on. I then boxed in and mounted box fans to the gable vents on either end of the house, one venting in, the other venting out. Figured a good cross ventilation setup would ensure to keep the tempatures down, HA!! I quickly realized that it wasn't going to be enough as the daytime temps of the attic maintained a 25-30 degree difference than the outside tempature. So began the first changes to the doomed attic grow.
Version 2.0 would have thick insulation in the rafters and insulated walls to keep the high attic temps under control. As I started to frame up walls spring started to turn to summer and the 80 degree days were producing tempatures of 100-110 degrees in the attic. Even with my gable vent fans running 24/7. The tempature swings were incredible up there, down to 50 degrees at night and 100 degrees in the heat of the day. The hottest tempature I recorded up there was a steamy 134 degrees, that's when I pulled out of the attic and waited for fall when I could go back up there and not lose 10 pounds of sweat just by thinking about what I was going to do next.
So the rest of fall and through the winter I have been back at getting this thing buttoned up and ready to rock n roll. I still a few weeks away from totally being finished, but close enough to start sharing my adventure with the great and supportive members of RIU.
Looking at the NW corner of the attic and the 4'x4' flower room.
Looking at the SW corner and the 4'x4' veg room.
.
This will become a clone shelf.
And this area will be a work area.
And this will be where all the controls of the room will be.
This is shot back across the attic looking at the room.
Tune in and subscribe fellows, we have a lot more to come and plenty of pictures to go along with it.
Until next time,
J
So like many people, me and my wife live in a small 2bed house, with a crawl space and ONE bedroom closet. There is absolutely no where in this house to put a decent sized grow except for my attic. (We have my daughter every other week, so the 2nd bedroom is not a possibility.) And so began a year's long adventure to setup a grow in the only place that I have been told it will never work.
So I started out by clearing insulation out of a 8' x 10' area in the back of the attic. I placed 1" thick foam board insulation on the floor and topped it with 1/2" OSB to give me a suitable area to work on. I then boxed in and mounted box fans to the gable vents on either end of the house, one venting in, the other venting out. Figured a good cross ventilation setup would ensure to keep the tempatures down, HA!! I quickly realized that it wasn't going to be enough as the daytime temps of the attic maintained a 25-30 degree difference than the outside tempature. So began the first changes to the doomed attic grow.
Version 2.0 would have thick insulation in the rafters and insulated walls to keep the high attic temps under control. As I started to frame up walls spring started to turn to summer and the 80 degree days were producing tempatures of 100-110 degrees in the attic. Even with my gable vent fans running 24/7. The tempature swings were incredible up there, down to 50 degrees at night and 100 degrees in the heat of the day. The hottest tempature I recorded up there was a steamy 134 degrees, that's when I pulled out of the attic and waited for fall when I could go back up there and not lose 10 pounds of sweat just by thinking about what I was going to do next.
So the rest of fall and through the winter I have been back at getting this thing buttoned up and ready to rock n roll. I still a few weeks away from totally being finished, but close enough to start sharing my adventure with the great and supportive members of RIU.
Looking at the NW corner of the attic and the 4'x4' flower room.
Looking at the SW corner and the 4'x4' veg room.
.
This will become a clone shelf.
And this area will be a work area.
And this will be where all the controls of the room will be.
This is shot back across the attic looking at the room.
Tune in and subscribe fellows, we have a lot more to come and plenty of pictures to go along with it.
Until next time,
J
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