stop heat getting to windows?

furious248

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Hi riu,

I'm doing a little grow, and I was just wondering what would be the best way to stop heat getting to the windows? I'm only running a 400w hps but I don't want to take any chances, thanks very much
 

calliandra

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Erm, could you explain a bit why that is an issue for you?
Is it in an otherwise cold cellar or what?
 

furious248

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Erm, could you explain a bit why that is an issue for you?
Is it in an otherwise cold cellar or what?
Thanks for the reply, I'm in the UK, and as you know we are not really meant to be growing, it is winter here at the moment, so it's quite cold, and the extra heat from the tent will show on the windows if a police helicopter is having a look about
 

furious248

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I don't understand either.

Insulation? Maybe...
It's winter in the UK, the heat from the grow will show on a thermol camera if police was looking, so I was just wondering what would be the best way to stop any heat from the grow getting to the windows
 

calliandra

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It's winter in the UK, the heat from the grow will show on a thermol camera if police was looking, so I was just wondering what would be the best way to stop any heat from the grow getting to the windows
Yeah it's winter in the UK, and people do tend to throw on some heating, so I'd say you're quite mainstream generating heat indoors ;)
Also, the way I understand thermal cams, they scan for heat sources (at least that's what the pix always look like). And a 400W grow isn't likely to make much of a footprint? I may be wrong on this, just common sense/gut feeling speaking here :mrgreen:
 

furious248

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Yeah it's winter in the UK, and people do tend to throw on some heating, so I'd say you're quite mainstream generating heat indoors ;)
Also, the way I understand thermal cams, they scan for heat sources (at least that's what the pix always look like). And a 400W grow isn't likely to make much of a footprint? I may be wrong on this, just common sense/gut feeling speaking here :mrgreen:
Haha, thanks for the help, the main one that got me on a paranoid one is I watched one of them police programs, they was searching with a thermal camera and one room was a degree or 2 hotter than the rest of the windows, and that's how they got them
 

calliandra

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Haha, thanks for the help, the main one that got me on a paranoid one is I watched one of them police programs, they was searching with a thermal camera and one room was a degree or 2 hotter than the rest of the windows, and that's how they got them
FFS sheez, those guys have too much time on their hands!
My rooms easily have differences of 5° or more when I get onto a cooking spree lmao
But then there'S also your answer: if you have your grow in your living space, just adjust the heating there so you have the same temp as in other rooms?
Cheers!:bigjoint:
 

outlier

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Vent into your ceiling if you can. There was a youtube clip I bookmarked somewhere that mentions a lot of this stuff. Yeah here it is:


Some really good info there. It is more for the USA but he gives a lot of good tips. I like the part on how to throw off the sniffer dogs :bigjoint:
 

calliandra

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Vent into your ceiling if you can. There was a youtube clip I bookmarked somewhere that mentions a lot of this stuff. Yeah here it is:


Some really good info there. It is more for the USA but he gives a lot of good tips. I like the part on how to throw off the sniffer dogs :bigjoint:
Probably going to make @furious248 more paranoid tho lmao!

Personally, I choose the path of hide out in the open :-P
I order lots of stuff from the internet, so it wasn't unusual for me to get boxes in the mail. All super discretely packed, no problems. I even had to return a carbon filter once, just dispatched it from the local post office, no problem lol.
Of course, I'm just a happy-go-lucky 2 plant closet grower with practically zero paranoia ;)
I just don't talk to anyone about it. Instead, I call it my indoor living soil project, and talk about that haha:bigjoint:
 

outlier

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Probably going to make @furious248 more paranoid tho lmao!

Personally, I choose the path of hide out in the open :-P
I order lots of stuff from the internet, so it wasn't unusual for me to get boxes in the mail. All super discretely packed, no problems. I even had to return a carbon filter once, just dispatched it from the local post office, no problem lol.
Of course, I'm just a happy-go-lucky 2 plant closet grower with practically zero paranoia ;)
I just don't talk to anyone about it. Instead, I call it my indoor living soil project, and talk about that haha:bigjoint:
Absolutely! I'm in a similar boat. 2 plants inside in a 1x1x2m tent. Only the wife knows about it and she's more paranoid about it than me. I don't care if I get caught, it's all for me anyway. The only thing that will piss me off is losing the bud and equipment. Then I'll just have to go buy the shit off the street, idiots :bigjoint:
 

furious248

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how would they know the difference between an electric heater and a 400w ballast?
Police are fuckers, they go into major detail trying to catch growers, they look for slight heat differences in the rooms, then go to electric company's, and with the smart meters they can see the spike with 18 on 6 off, BUT I thought fuck it, and have built a room inside a room, in a grow tent :) it's nothing special, but might help heat, and I'm pumping air from the tent into my hall way
 

furious248

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Vent into your ceiling if you can. There was a youtube clip I bookmarked somewhere that mentions a lot of this stuff. Yeah here it is:


Some really good info there. It is more for the USA but he gives a lot of good tips. I like the part on how to throw off the sniffer dogs :bigjoint:
Lool you mad as fuck, I will be in prison in a heart beat, did I do something wrong to you ? Haha only joking, but thanks for the help, if I grow enough I'm moving to USA. ... With a very bad back ;)
 

furious248

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Probably going to make @furious248 more paranoid tho lmao!

Personally, I choose the path of hide out in the open :-P
I order lots of stuff from the internet, so it wasn't unusual for me to get boxes in the mail. All super discretely packed, no problems. I even had to return a carbon filter once, just dispatched it from the local post office, no problem lol.
Of course, I'm just a happy-go-lucky 2 plant closet grower with practically zero paranoia ;)
I just don't talk to anyone about it. Instead, I call it my indoor living soil project, and talk about that haha:bigjoint:
Pl you funny person. That made my night, I'm going to call it the indoor living project from now on
 

TopDogTHC

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Haha haha, no police are not like that here, in USA it's smash your head in then ask if you are guilty, here we get gently waddled to the meat wagon, sat down, given a cup of tea, then in interviewed, but regardless prison is prison in the end
Door coming off is not nice sound, especially if it's early in the morning, then your twisted up and cuffed in your own home and then strip searched back at the station lol. After all that they're nice. They can be cunts and take phones, laptops etc.

Way I see it , is there's gotta be bigger grows going on in my city which has around 200,000 population. See maybe one "cannabis factory" found every 6 month at most. Local newspapers report most drug busts regardless of scale. I wouldn't say I live in a massive city, but it's far from small so if they were really looking into heat and electric usage there would be a few more raids than what there currently is.

Also, Police are supposed to be laying off the smokers who are growing for themselves. The cost of setting up and carrying out a raid and then prosecuting just isn't worth it for personal use. Less money to dealers is less in the hands of the gangs. Jus carry on keeping quiet and you should be sweet. It's crazy how things get exaggerated though lol.
 

outlier

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Lool you mad as fuck, I will be in prison in a heart beat, did I do something wrong to you ? Haha only joking, but thanks for the help, if I grow enough I'm moving to USA. ... With a very bad back ;)
Lots of good tips in there. Most of it is common sense. Point he makes about heat signatures to spread the heat as much as you can rather than vent it at one point is good. I think he even says to vent under the floor if you can, roof otherwise. Can't remember. Been a while since I saw it :bigjoint:

For someone to go down for a few degrees warmer than normal windows, they musta been on radar well before that or there's more to the story. Think of all the stuff going on in the broader community that would cause that. My computer room stays a few degrees warmer than the rest of the house in winter here.

Checkout that vid, it shows you exactly what the cops see. If you are worried about the heat signature you will create, disperse it before it becomes visible to them so it looks like general household heat leaving the house. Don't vent it out a window in winter because you will stick out like dogs balls. Everyone else is trying to capture heat and hang on, who's this muppet venting it straight out a window? :bigjoint:
 

calliandra

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Pl you funny person. That made my night, I'm going to call it the indoor living project from now on
Hell yeah, you can focus on the architectural aspect, after all, wow, a room in a room! :mrgreen:
Venting into the hallway - great idea, especially after seeing the vid there!

Checkout that vid, it shows you exactly what the cops see. If you are worried about the heat signature you will create, disperse it before it becomes visible to them so it looks like general household heat leaving the house. Don't vent it out a window in winter because you will stick out like dogs balls. Everyone else is trying to capture heat and hang on, who's this muppet venting it straight out a window? :bigjoint:
Yeah actually I'd seen different pix of what they apparently see, so I was surprised - I'll go look for a pic tonite.
LMAO @ muppet venting straight out of a window :D
 
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