Cookie Rider
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Good effort op.
Negative air pressure and a good quality carbon filter will keep smells secret.
Negative air pressure and a good quality carbon filter will keep smells secret.
Building my growroom.
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SmoltimeGrow
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Whyyy though lmao. What was wrong with just using the space before??
SmoltimeGrow
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I mean, this dude spent easily $300-500+ on building materials for that room. If it was to make it undetectable, build ONE False wall with a lung room on the inside for tools, nutes, shelves, cloning, electrical, etc... sorry to tell you buddy but you went way overboard and didn’t think this out enough
- Does not have to be
- I know, but it does not matter, the walls are completely airproof.
- it is and it isnt necessary. Also i wanted to build something.
- it is built right up ceiling, theres about 10cm space left before lights
-read above
It is ugly as fuck but it does not matter not a beauty contest. Iam really amazed of how you guys slam this to ground for a so little things. 'nice try' 'tear it apart' etc.
Those garage walls are not so air tight so the smells could escape to other garages etc. One false wall wouldnt work enough. I want to be sure
Dryxi
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I see where you going. I think as long as you seal up what you have, you could easily grow just inside that new room. No need for a tent, that would just be redundant for no reason. you won't have to worry about the smell leaking as long as the exhaust is big enough and the carbon filter is the right size.
Cookie Rider
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Garages built to code are sealed from living space to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning and are a fire barrier.
So they should be relatively sealed already, even without insulation.
Not saying your wasting your time...
But the garage should be air tight already.
Spend money on a high quality carbon filter and Keep negative pressure in a tent/room and smells will not get out.
-The only time a double room may prove usefull is if power goes out and you can't have negative pressure scrubbing the air.
So they should be relatively sealed already, even without insulation.
Not saying your wasting your time...
But the garage should be air tight already.
Spend money on a high quality carbon filter and Keep negative pressure in a tent/room and smells will not get out.
-The only time a double room may prove usefull is if power goes out and you can't have negative pressure scrubbing the air.
SmoltimeGrow
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I work in the building industry, through design, build, and consultation.... trust me when I say this, as long as you have proper air ventilation (which you will need to do with this room too), you wouldnt have any smell issue. your garage would've been fine. I'm just saying, you couldve gotten a much better grow room with the space you had for hundreds of dollars less and with a lot less time / alterations.
dont get me wrong, you did a good job building it. It's well made. You just didn't do enough research before starting... Is this guna be your first grow?
SmoltimeGrow
Active Member
you should've created false wall w/ lung room inside of it and then wrapped the whole inside in Panda film... which you gotta do anyway (or at least prime/paint) because you used drywall in a growroom that you're going to keep at 40%+ humidity. If your dimensions are 4.2m x 2m x 2.3m; then your cubic volume is 19.31cm (682cfeet).. so just buy an inline fan like this: Inline Fan 507CFM and a nice carbon filter. You'll exceed the necessary cycle rate by about 35% and will have NO issues with smell. So instead of the extra about $300-400 you spent, you couldve bought a bigger inline fan/carbon filter and still saved around $200...... and your room would be bigger and undetectable in the case someone ever looked in your garage.
you still have to use panda film
you still have to get an inline fan/carbon filter
=both of those things keep smell from escaping room. you have to do these in either scenario... you still gotta buy the other equipment. AND you gotta buy a second extra set now for intake... since you made it impossible for fresh air to be pulled in..
you still have to use panda film
you still have to get an inline fan/carbon filter
=both of those things keep smell from escaping room. you have to do these in either scenario... you still gotta buy the other equipment. AND you gotta buy a second extra set now for intake... since you made it impossible for fresh air to be pulled in..
stealthfader508
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I think it's important to point out that it's not well made... not even close ... 1) the studs are a mile apart 2) the corners are held together with the strapping 3) no king, jacks, or header in the doorway 4) backwards sheetrock 5)spray foamed seams, with what looks like plaster or compund on top of that (which will never set-up and crack, peel, or flake off 6) it doesn't look like the bottom plate is secured to the concrete either ... to just name 6 things I see
All in all I don't mean to shit on this guy, but this is incredibly poor construction practice, and it should be pointed out.... but what's even more heartbreaking is that all of this work was entirely unnecessary for what he's trying to accomplish ... I vote for tearing it down
iPerculate
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Can you imagine trying to sell a house and explain this catastrophe? It has to be torn down eventually, just get it over with
Wattzzup
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Use the hate as fuel to make the room even better.
stealthfader508
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he could use the hate to make it better... but I'd suggest he use google
Powertech
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You renting a space somewhere just to grow or something? My grow site better have a damn toilet, its at my house lol!I have 3 phase 230v ac feed. 25A head fuses. I ventilate this room and i ventilate the growtent. I have water supply and even a toilet there "" At the moment this might look like im a madman, but this will be good. thanks for your reply
JoeBlow5823
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I double ventilate too and it doesnt take anything close to that ridiculous setup you have. My god if you had looked up how to build walls u could have saved yourself so much time and money. I grow in a tent and I have no problem filtering my air twice.
Air is pulled through the filter then duct goes from the fan to the hood. The hood exhausts outside the tent into my custom collector where there is another, larger filter that then filters the air a second time and pushes it into the basement. Pushing air into the basement is my preferred method but if you have a temperature controlled grow room this would not be necessary. It just works good for me because it circulates air through the whole house and pushes the hot air to the basement for winter heat. Smell is non-existent. You could have saved yourself so much time and money.
ilovereggae
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Just my $0.02 I think there is something lost in translation here. Seems to me that he is growing in what we would call a storage unit? He just has a drive up on front and then there are other storage units on either side and behind him. Or maybe its more of a workshop/studio space? He called it a garage tho so thats why I equate it to somewhere he is renting space similar to a Uhaul building etc
I would personally have constant anxiety if I didnt live with my plants.
Either way, construction methods of the inner grow room aside, I have 2 questions. How are you going to handle getting into the space every day without anyone being suspicious? Wont your electricity usage get noticed? Seems like you would be drawing way more than what a normal person would use?
This is either genius, or insane. I had the same idea at some point in my life, probably after smoking some nice haze lol.
If I am correct I can definitely see the reasoning behind the double ventilation setup. The bigger room is not built to code for living, just whatever would be needed for storage/garages so there is no insulation and I would guess a shared crawlspace above the ceilings.
I would personally have constant anxiety if I didnt live with my plants.
Either way, construction methods of the inner grow room aside, I have 2 questions. How are you going to handle getting into the space every day without anyone being suspicious? Wont your electricity usage get noticed? Seems like you would be drawing way more than what a normal person would use?
This is either genius, or insane. I had the same idea at some point in my life, probably after smoking some nice haze lol.