Building a grow room Open to suggestions

Use outlets with their own breaker in them. They have the little red test button you most likely have them in your bathroom already in case you drop the dryer in the tub. I have access to two seperate outlets in my room both on the same main breaker. I will just use surge protectors and with those outlets if you low the outlet all you have to do is press the buton to reset it.

I don't have any specific recommendations for insulation, so get whatever is cost-effective for your situation. If you have to, you can always go back and upgrade your insulation if need be.

I do have some advice with electricity however. I'm not an electrician, but I do know that you don't want to go over 80% of the load capacity for a circuit because you will risk a fire. For a common 15 amp circuit, that means you do not want to go over 12 amps on that circuit.

You can find the number of amps you are using quite easily. Amps = Watts/Volts. For a 15 amp circuit, we don't want to go over 12 amps, but how many watts is that? Well we know we have 12 amps and 120 volts because this is what most household electrical outlets have (with the exception of 240 appliance outlets). So that's 12 = W/120. 12x120 = 1440 watts. A 20 amp circuit's max load would be 1920 watts, and a 30 amp circuit's max load would be 2880 watts.

That being said, you may at some point want to pony up a little extra cash and have an electrician run you a separate 30 amp box if you are building in an external building without power, or installing a dedicated 30 amp circuit in a room which is attached to an space which already has electricity. Whatever you do, don't just swap out breaker switches, such as replacing a 15 amp switch with a 30 amp switch without upgrading your wiring; this will cause a fire.

Anyway, I hope my long-windedness has been helpful.

If your breaker panel is in the basement you would be better off to use or add a seperate circuit for your grow op..Maybee a 20amp - 110 or a 30 amp 220/240 amp circuit depending on your amperage pull..I added a 30 amp 220 for room I am building and I am gonna switch out all of my light to 220/240 by changing out the cords. Added benefit is it will cut your electrical consumption on your lights almost in
half and all your other electrical items (water pumps,airpumps,fans ect) can run on a 110 circuit you probably already have without overloading the breaker.

good stuff thanks alot guys

thanks folks

Any ideas on building a covert hidden entrance

i think i have a solution for your watering troubles.. use a 55gallon barrel (search on google to see one) and use the same things to water as the guy in this video did.. the pump ,nozel, and airstone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9YFlmmRenY

Yeah i would like to do a lot of the things this guy does with his room. His construction skills eclipse mine but I think I can at least come close on a lot of it.

a covert entrance could b a rolling shelf unit bolted or screwed to the exterior door so when u look at it it just looks like a shelving unit against the wall but u would kno its a door

Im jealous of your space too! Portable AC is excellent - the way to go. I have ac unit in the room with carbon filter on the exit from my space. It works very well but does take up a bit of space. Id forget the covert door as its going to be hard to explain what the big box is. Im assuming garage traffic will be kept to a minimum anyway. Why not have a door to each room from the outside to maximise space on the inside?

An extension of Mark's idea would even be to drill holes on the exterior wall of the grow room and hang shelves. The shelves could end and start again at your door. Having the hinges on the inside of your room, making the door wider than usual to cover it with a few wide shelves, and constructing the door in a corner would make this idea most stealthy. Plus you would have some usuable shelves too. lol. This may or may not work, the thickness of your walls might determine that. Just an idea.

yo stunned - how are you going to vent that room? what are the adjacent rooms? what is right above it (through the ceiling?)... you need some ducts to the attic or disguised as bathroom/dryer exhausts on the outside of the house to exhaust some heat. as for dividing it - i would go with something like a curtain - not a wall... just get a couple of layers of that black/white poly and put it up, white sides out where you think you want to divide it... this will give you more flexibility and it wont be 6" thick like a wall... that room is easily 4x the size of mine (and i run 2KW), if you decked it out you could put 8KW in there

BloodShot420 said:

yo stunned - how are you going to vent that room? what are the adjacent rooms? what is right above it (through the ceiling?)... you need some ducts to the attic or disguised as bathroom/dryer exhausts on the outside of the house to exhaust some heat. as for dividing it - i would go with something like a curtain - not a wall... just get a couple of layers of that black/white poly and put it up, white sides out where you think you want to divide it... this will give you more flexibility and it wont be 6" thick like a wall... that room is easily 4x the size of mine (and i run 2KW), if you decked it out you could put 8KW in there

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Attics right above it so I will vent in and out of the attic. My plan is to use an inline fan blowing in from the attic and a carbon filter with another fan blowing back out into the attic. The attic has some vent looking things to the outside so if a fan is blowing fresh air from outside should be circulating through. I will be running 2k of lighting in the flower room at most. I grow only for the personal use of me and one other person I don't need 8k worth of lighting I'm more about quality over quantity.

Got the insulation up today will finish off the drywall by next weekend. Moving a long slowly but surely.

I finally moved in. t turned into a black hole of both time and money but she's a beauty.

ANd of course the most important part of any grow room.....The Weed...

I still need to finish the outside. Paint it add shelves and make it look like the rest of the garage. But at least I am in and out of my old room that was struggling.

things are coming along well man.
Keep those ballast clean though bro!

An idea I use is building shelves on the inside of your room eye level or higher so it gets everything out of the way, ballast ect



heres my 600 dig on its shelf.....8ft celings

Ballasts on shelves. Good idea. I didn't think out what to do with them until I got moving in and was like oh shit. I think I will add that shelf today.