builin a grow room in my new house

lowpro88

lowpro88

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ello there we just moved into our first house capatalizen on that 8 grand from the gov.:hump: anyway im buildin a legit grow room since were no longer renters. i already built the wall seperating the grow room from the house. the size of my room is 8 ft long by 8 ft tall by 4 ft wide. im going to grow auto flowering plants to capatalize on space, time and effort. so the plan you say??? well i plan on using a shelf system to seperate the height into three sections of two and a half feet. i will use 2x4 mounted 4 in" side flat against wall this will be the rear support for the shelfs. for the front im going to use 1/2 in pvc as columns glued to flat 1/4 in. wood. this will create the shelving throughout the room leaving 3 ft to walk in the middle of the room! comfy! any way once that is done i plan on goin to the grow room to by the reflective paper to wrap the entire room in walls and ceiling than a white mat to use on the floor to reflect up as well.

Lighting:
i plan on using tube flouresents mounted to the undersides of the shelves for lighting this will take a total of 15 reflectors and 30 light tubes. i also plan on mounting a 1000 watt hps light in the middle of the room to put more flowering light in since half the room will always be flowering.

ventilation:
i have two plans one easyer than the other i want to get a 4 in duct "Y" attach to the exhaust of my house (which for those of you that dont know it goes right out the roof) the exhaust is filled with hot air from the water heater and furnace already so it should take the smell up up and away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the only problem is i have to and i stress have the exhaust that is gomin out the funace and water heater is unused gas and CO2 so BAD to have a leak but if i can make it work its gonna be sweet cuz i built the exhaust into the room! the other idea would be carbon filter than out the wall with a dryer vent cover and its behind bushes??

the entrance to my room needs to be secret so i was thinkin i might want to go classic wit a bookcase but idk im open to ideas??

Growing: ill be growin some lowryder2, some purple mazar auto, and some short stuff #1 it came free with the order.plan on getting some diesel ryder and auto ak or who knows more strains keep poppin up.

so what yall think bout the sound of things???

oh ill get pics up soon
 
Teach a man to fish...

Teach a man to fish...

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Sounds AWESOME. I have long dreamed about doing that. I defiantly say go with the roof exhaust!

With regard to your concern for WH/furnace exhaust; It's all about pressure. I might approach the issue differently depending on the set up of your new pad, but most conservatively you can add an inline exhaust fan upstream of the Y. That way there is negative pressure in the vents relative to the grow and furnace rooms. Depending on the cooling needs of your space maybe that is enough to cool your grow. If not and you need to have a big blower in the room, you have the problem of potentially blowing furnace exhaust back down its own pipe. NOT GOOD!! for this case I would use some one-way vents and tie in an additional blower to your furnace exhaust that turns on when the flame does.

Good luck with the set up! you should get a journal going, I would subscribe!
 
Danielsgb

Danielsgb

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Sounds like you have most of it thought out. About a secret entrance What is the adjoining room? I'd subscribe to a thread too. Sounds cool.
 
Mr.GreenJeans

Mr.GreenJeans

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Cool thread! I recently built a grow room in my house that is VERY stealth. The house was added on to (new Kitchen, Dining room, back porch, etc) by a previous owner, so the original kitchen ended up being a storage room/kids play room. I walled off a 6 foot section of the old kitchen and put a nice large closet in it and converted the kitchen into a guest bedroom. But I built a hidden access door in the back of the closet (It is virtually invisible, you'd never know there was a door there if someone didn't show you!) going back to my new op. When you go through the self-closing door there are sealed rooms to the left and right. You are in a 3.5 foot by 6 foot area with a 8 foot step ladder and some small shelves, lined with the complete FF soil line up. The two rooms are each 6 feet by 3.5 feet with a 8.5 foot ceiling. The floors and ceilings are painted flat white and the walls are lined with mirrored mylar film except the "doors" which are heavy-gauge panda-film with zippered openings. There are 2 4-inch ventilation holes on opposite corners of the floor of each room. They are covered with screening to keep most pests out, but pull in nice cool air from the crawlspace under my house. Each room is equipped with a 600 watt HPS light (Digital ballast so I can run MH conversion bulbs too) hung from yo-yo's. There is also a 16-inch wall mounted oscillating fan in each room. The lights are in HTG Euro hoods and hooked via 6-inch flex duct and through an 8-inch T-fitting to an 8-inch inline fan (590 cfm) that blows heat/smell/etc out into the open attic. Also above the 2 grow rooms I have built 2 vegging areas (with T8's and CFL's) and a cloning area right above the closet ceiling (The room this was all built in has a 12 foot ceiling, so I have lots of vertical space I can and am utilizing).

I'm currently about to harvest my first girls from this set up (I'm strictly a soil grower at this point, and fairly new to indoor growing). I've got Ceres Orange bud, Dinafem Power Kush, and Barney's Farm LSD all within 2 weeks of being ready to harvest, with more Orange bud and PowerKush, plus a Skunk-47 to be harvested 4 weeks later (and 8 more assorted girls for 4 weeks after that, etc, etc, ...). Looking forward to becoming fully cannabis self-sufficient!!!

As to hiding your entrance, I always liked the old bookcase/hidden door gig, which is not difficult to do at all, especially if it is done during a new build. Or, put it in a closet, like mine, where hanging clothing, shoes, etc. serve to help further mask any visible traces of the doorway. Use a shelf to hide the top seam of your door and have the bottom seam behind the floor trim, then use vertical decorative stripping as an accent in the closet and below chair rail throughout the room. this allows you to TOTALLY hide the vertical seams of your entrance, especially once you have caulked and painted everything! And your room will look better too, which helps keep the old lady happy!!!

Good luck with your build dude!! I'll keep an eye on this thread, because I might get some good ideas for my next house, lol.
 
lowpro88

lowpro88

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thanks guys i like the ideas goin round especially with the exhaust n i just might start a journal cuz im pretty stoked about this idea as the kinks get sorted out!!

the sectret entrance would be going towards my Man Cave but i also breed reptiles and have tons of books that i need a book shelf for so it would be pretty natural.
 
lowpro88

lowpro88

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Mr.GreenJeans said:
Cool thread! I recently built a grow room in my house that is VERY stealth. The house was added on to (new Kitchen, Dining room, back porch, etc) by a previous owner, so the original kitchen ended up being a storage room/kids play room. I walled off a 6 foot section of the old kitchen and put a nice large closet in it and converted the kitchen into a guest bedroom. But I built a hidden access door in the back of the closet (It is virtually invisible, you'd never know there was a door there if someone didn't show you!) going back to my new op. When you go through the self-closing door there are sealed rooms to the left and right. You are in a 3.5 foot by 6 foot area with a 8 foot step ladder and some small shelves, lined with the complete FF soil line up. The two rooms are each 6 feet by 3.5 feet with a 8.5 foot ceiling. The floors and ceilings are painted flat white and the walls are lined with mirrored mylar film except the "doors" which are heavy-gauge panda-film with zippered openings. There are 2 4-inch ventilation holes on opposite corners of the floor of each room. They are covered with screening to keep most pests out, but pull in nice cool air from the crawlspace under my house. Each room is equipped with a 600 watt HPS light (Digital ballast so I can run MH conversion bulbs too) hung from yo-yo's. There is also a 16-inch wall mounted oscillating fan in each room. The lights are in HTG Euro hoods and hooked via 6-inch flex duct and through an 8-inch T-fitting to an 8-inch inline fan (590 cfm) that blows heat/smell/etc out into the open attic. Also above the 2 grow rooms I have built 2 vegging areas (with T8's and CFL's) and a cloning area right above the closet ceiling (The room this was all built in has a 12 foot ceiling, so I have lots of vertical space I can and am utilizing).

I'm currently about to harvest my first girls from this set up (I'm strictly a soil grower at this point, and fairly new to indoor growing). I've got Ceres Orange bud, Dinafem Power Kush, and Barney's Farm LSD all within 2 weeks of being ready to harvest, with more Orange bud and PowerKush, plus a Skunk-47 to be harvested 4 weeks later (and 8 more assorted girls for 4 weeks after that, etc, etc, ...). Looking forward to becoming fully cannabis self-sufficient!!!

As to hiding your entrance, I always liked the old bookcase/hidden door gig, which is not difficult to do at all, especially if it is done during a new build. Or, put it in a closet, like mine, where hanging clothing, shoes, etc. serve to help further mask any visible traces of the doorway. Use a shelf to hide the top seam of your door and have the bottom seam behind the floor trim, then use vertical decorative stripping as an accent in the closet and below chair rail throughout the room. this allows you to TOTALLY hide the vertical seams of your entrance, especially once you have caulked and painted everything! And your room will look better too, which helps keep the old lady happy!!!

Good luck with your build dude!! I'll keep an eye on this thread, because I might get some good ideas for my next house, lol.
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damn sounds like a sick set up you got there n congrats on the upcoming harvest enjoy!!!!!:weed:
 
stonesour

stonesour

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lowpro88 said:
not bad for a 65 year old lady huh lol
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I vented my box with my hot water heater that goes out my roof and it works like you wouldnt believe. You can walk into the room and not smell anything. if you have any questions feel free to ask, or check out my journal to see my vent. Make sure if you vent it that way that the draft motor goes above all other vents.
 
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