My attic grow room construction

[bryant228]

This has been in the planning stages for almost a 1 1/2 year. You can see my first post about it here:

https://www.rollitup.org/grow-room-design-setup/29436-attic-grow-room-debate.html

I'll give a quick summary. My wife and I just tired to looking for it. My wife and I both professionals, so it's always been hard hooking up with pot. I wouldn't say were are heavy smokers, just in the evenings during weekdays and all day on the weekends And to be honest, the weed we get is always brick, swag weed. It does it's job but........its fucking swag!

The planning started some time ago. And the construction began back in november. I would not recomend that everyone try this. My attic is trussed and was never meant to have a habital room up there. I've been involved in construction all my life and been designing buildings for 12 years now. I'll try and explain the building process per picture in the next posts. Below is a JPEG of the design.

 

[bryant228]

Below are pics of the construction. Pics 1 and 2 are of the attic space before construction. It was pretty messy up there.

 

[worm5376]

the best part about growing in your attic is you can simply exhaust directly from your attic fan and drawl in fresh air from your eve's . my only concern is that during summer months you'll need a portable A/C wich you should be able to find on Craigslist for pretty damn cheap!! Subscribed.....

 

[bryant228]

Pics 3 and 4 are the start of the construction. My attic was constructed using roof trusses. It was meant for light storage. I decided to install 2x6 joists along side of the 2x4 bottom cords of the trusses. This will make the floor alittle more sturdy and alow me place atleast an R-19 insullation in the floor.

 

[bryant228]

the best part about growing in your attic is you can simply exhaust directly from your attic fan and drawl in fresh air from your eve's . my only concern is that during summer months you'll need a portable A/C wich you should be able to find on Craigslist for pretty damn cheap!! Subscribed.....

Well, I had to install an exhaust vent today. Was not fun hanging on the roof. I needed to vent it away from the house towards the back. My air handler is located right next to the grow room, so the room will be heated and cooled. And I already know I'm going to need a portable AC for the hot summer months. I'm at the end of framing right now. Wait till you see the rest of the pics.

 

[beginningbotanist420]

Nice! I can tell you're an architect; my sister who is one too uses a similar program to do everything, same font and everything!

But what lights are you planning on using? Thats a pretty big area. To cover 36 ft2 for your flowering room with 7,500 lumens/ft2, you'll need either: (2) 1000w HPS's and (1) 400w HPS's, or (4) 600w HPS's. And to cover your 18 ft2 veg room with 6000 lumens/ft2, you'll need either: (2) 600w MH's, or (3) 400w MH's. In both cases, I'd go with the second choice, for more even light coverage and easier heat management.

 

[bryant228]

Pics 5 and 6 show the joists are all installed and the subflooring being installed. Installing those joists were a night mare! It was just hard work. And took alot longer then I anticapated.

 

[worm5376]

yeah man. cut another 6" or 7" flex run in from the trunk and steal a little from the air handler. im guessing your air handlers sitting horizontally from the looks of the attic . dont know why i just said that. I'm stoned, sorry. but anyways, do you know what strain you plan on going with? something short obviously, since you're gonna have height issues. if you dont know where to get your seeds at the 2 best websites is attitude.com and dopeseeds.com. they ship to the US and pretty dam fast 1-2 weeks MAX!

 

[bryant228]

Pics 7 and 8 show the flooring is all installed and the framing of the knee walls has begun. It was such a relief to have the floor installed! Just being able to walk from one end to the other.......it was a real milestone. My wife and went out to diner that night to celebrate. She has her job too. She's put her self in charge of finance. And she's good at it! We had a budget placed and she has kept track of every single penny!

 

[bryant228]

Nice! I can tell you're an architect; my sister who is one too uses a similar program to do everything, same font and everything!

But what lights are you planning on using? Thats a pretty big area. To cover 36 ft2 for your flowering room with 7,500 lumens/ft2, you'll need either: (2) 1000w HPS's and (1) 400w HPS's, or (4) 600w HPS's. And to cover your 18 ft2 veg room with 6000 lumens/ft2, you'll need either: (2) 600w MH's, or (3) 400w MH's. In both cases, I'd go with the second choice, for more even light coverage and easier heat management.

I think I'm going to go with just one 600 watt hps. Cool tube obviously to cut down on heat. My buddy has one and you can put your hand right on the tube. Creates no heat at all.

yeah man. cut another 6" or 7" flex run in from the trunk and steal a little from the air handler. im guessing your air handlers sitting horizontally from the looks of the attic . dont know why i just said that. I'm stoned, sorry. but anyways, do you know what strain you plan on going with? something short obviously, since you're gonna have height issues. if you dont know where to get your seeds at the 2 best websites is attitude.com and dopeseeds.com. they ship to the US and pretty dam fast 1-2 weeks MAX!

My buddy has white rhino and aurora indica cloning right now. And we did order from attitude.

 

[bryant228]

Here are pics of the vent pipe and drain I stalled. The vent pipe was already there for the bath room under the room. I just re-routed it and installed a T joint for a future drain for the sink. That was a bitch also.

 

[bryant228]

Pics 9 and 10 show all the main framing installed. I have to frame in some blocking here and there, but this is pretty much what the room will look like. There is also a pic of where the door will be located going out to my exsting attic stairs which leads down to my garage. And the other pic shows where I'm installing another attic door that will lead right down to my office. It will used mostly in the summer months so I will not have to use the acces door because I'm worried about letting in hot attic air when it opens. Also, I can just leave the attic ladder down that will go to my office and let more fresh cool air up in there.

 

[bryant228]

All I have to do now is finish the framing, rough in my electrical, and rough in my exhaust system for the lights and carbon filter. Then I'm going to insulate the room with R-30. Then I'm just going to place 1/2 foam boards as the walls. Then I have to build a door. Then install the fans and lights and I can start growing. I'll do the sink and secondary attic stairs later on. I just need to get some plants up there ASAP.

 

[jnuggs]

Hey bryant, looks like you've got a great start so far! got a nice journal too, keep it up! This is going to be a good one. Looking forward to it. Keep it comin and keep it safe!

 

[natmoon]

Good fun to watch the attic conversion and good quality pics.
Best of luck with it

 

[Hulk Nugs]

sick shit im on for the ride..... looking forward to the finish......did you go to school to become a architect ??

 

[jdmlove]

This has been in the planning stages for almost a 1 1/2 year. You can see my first post about it here:

https://www.rollitup.org/grow-room-design-setup/29436-attic-grow-room-debate.html

I'll give a quick summary. My wife and I just tired to looking for it. My wife and I both professionals, so it's always been hard hooking up with pot. I wouldn't say were are heavy smokers, just in the evenings during weekdays and all day on the weekends And to be honest, the weed we get is always brick, swag weed. It does it's job but........its fucking swag!

The planning started some time ago. And the construction began back in november. I would not recomend that everyone try this. My attic is trussed and was never meant to have a habital room up there. I've been involved in construction all my life and been designing buildings for 12 years now. I'll try and explain the building process per picture in the next posts. Below is a JPEG of the design.

got dam you really got this thing down huh......lol nice, subscribed

 

[bryant228]

Thanks everyone for the kind comments. This has been on the drawing boards for over 10 years, when my wife and I bought the house. Desperation finaly make me get off my ass and start it. I've grown a few crops over the years. Grew about 3 crops in the closet in my office with just fluorescents, start to finish. The buds were small, and you had to train the plants to grow sidesways pretty much, but it was the best pot. Lets hope I can get something up there by feb.

 

[bryant228]

Just an update on the progress so far. Finished up some more framing last week. I can't believe the amount of wood I have up there. It just mainly finished up some blocking. And nailers that I'm going to attached the insulation panels too. Kinda like drywalling, just no heavy drywall. Also got my intake air installed for my cooltube. It will be pulling air from the closet in my office. And got the biggest thorn in my side down, the electrical. I hate messing with electrical, scares the shit out of me. Hooked up 3 outlets to their own individual breaker. I didn't want to push any of the loads coming in there. One outlet will power the fluorescents for veg/cloning and 2 fans. One will power the portable AC unit I might need in the summer time. And the last outlet will power the 600w HPS cool tube. I just have to rough in my HVAC and some other venting and I'm ready for insulation.

 

[Hulk Nugs]

looking good man ...... i believe you need to take some time off work and finish the room hahaha ..... im not seeing the progress i want to see after 10 days tis tis .......but taking your time will allow you to think of every little thing to make it a good room............i rushed my room a little and now i need to make modifications so take your time to do a good job but dam i want to see that room up and running