How do you get your fresh air if you are in an apartment complex? Where do you shoot the hot air... up the laundry vent I am guessing?
What other complications have you run into with urban growing.
Need a bit more info, such as location in the apartment? If a closet, plenty of ways to get fresh air.
- Open the door, place a fan in or near the doorway (probably the most popular method)
- Tap into the a/c ductwork
Back when I lived in an apartment, I was really fortunate and had a spacious closet in the bedroom, it was ideal as not one wall was an outside wall, it also had a duct right in the back. I simply cut a 3" hole, then tapped into the A/C air duct going into the bathroom. (I could have tapped the duct providing air to the bedroom, but I like it cool when I'm asleep
I used Mastic, foil tape, one of these $5.99
Panaflo 80mm L1A Slotted housing exhaust fans (this vendor ships cheap as well as being highly rated at resellerratings.com)
Then went to Antonline(HD and Lowes has these) and got this
vent
Eave
Placed the slotted Panaflo fan
into the Vent Eave pictured above (Used a bit of silicone in 4 'goops', this method isolates noise and vibration) This fan is quiet as it is, but making sure it stays quiet was the goal)
Hooked the fan up to a A/C D/C 12 volt 350ma plug, you could go to Walmart and get a 2,4,6,10,12 A/C D/C selectable plug for like $10
Used a bit of 3" aluminum flex hose, mastic and foil tape to tap into the bathroom A/C duct that traveled through the bedroom closet. Plugged the new Panaflo fan and you now have a A/C cooled closet.
Depending on how hot it gets in your closet or room, you can also exhaust the air, many good posts here will show you ideas.
PS, For Odor, I used a CanFan and an inline blower, plus had a back up Natures Air NA-2 Ozone machine, the Ozone machine's on a remote control, I can turn that on with my A/V Logitech remote that controls my ozone machine as a emergency odor last line of defense, or if there's to much bong smoke, the ozone machine used for short periods of time does the job! Just remember, if you buy an ozone machine, use it properly and only on as it's needed. The less ozone your exposed to, the better
