FauxRoux
Well-Known Member
Hello folks,
I thought some might take some interest in my grow room design as it's slightly different. While as you will soon see I am no carpenter (that right there was my disclaimer....yes you may laugh and heckle at my work, I will only cry where you can't see me). I like many have stealth needs, (and dont worry ladies, YES my wife knows
) however the traditional "closet" simply wouldn't fulfill my needs. So I made the "stealth garage shelving unit".
I concluded that something was needed that would not stand out to anyone whom may need to enter my garage... such as the legally required yearly city inspection despite my legal medical status (thx alot *&%#ing UC Uni system, for those laws)...or anyone walking by my garage with the door open...like if I was working on 1 off my cars.
I had about 5 sheets of 4'x8' ply board and some miscellaneous 2"x4"s a friend gave me, leftover from a hotel that he helped build (and a few of my own boards/odds and ends from previous projects). So I decided a 10' T x 10' L x 2'.6" W unit would fit the bill. Just deep enough for 2 medium sized plants if scrogged right and just small enough to not come out too far from the wall to look odd. Since my work bench comes out 30" and is on the same wall it all fits rather nicely, with enough space left to work on a car.
So to start the frame:
This is NOT the best way to build a frame...but with the limitation of my materials (and skills) it will due. My reservoir's will be housed here. That is thin carport carpet on top of cement slab. So it isn't absorbent in case of res flood and slopes towards the garage door. The cement also has the benefit of keeping my res temp down.
I braced the feet to the back of the frame and added the floor of the first shelf.
Here I have added some of the walls. The pieces of siding at the top of the walls are recessed 5/8" from the top to allow me to add another piece of ply for the roof. Since this is a rental I want to leave the walls and drywall ceiling as untouched as possible. Making cleanup easier when I move. Also the ply dampens the noise of my fans and equipment quite a bit.
With walls up (and the notch for the water pipe cut) the unit was slid back against the wall to check the fit....
Framing for equipment shelves (far left) and roof added. Also if you look closely I have started caulking all the gaps with window/door caulk (kitchen/bathroom caulk has nasty mold inhibitors that can off-gas).
These equipment shelves will be the only connections to the walls other then a couple 3" deck screws on the far right side through the back wall which will anchor the unit. The AC is top far left and Dehui goes in the middle far left. (after running the system I found the Dehui puts off too much heat in the small environment to be effective, so now it is just extra space for fans and misc. Luckily the AC is waaaay over-sized (at 12,000 BTU) and can handle both jobs just fine).
Framing for the shelves begins. The top right/left wall will have no partition for 1 long scrog. The bottom left will be veg and is 12" wider towards left wall to accommodate mother/clones/teens. Right bottom will have a removable roof for either a quarantine or seed breeding bay or that can be removed for an additional flower chamber.
Front of frames so I can properly weather strip the doors for an air tight fit.
Here's the utility shelves caulked and ready to go.
And doors.
My foreman is showing why he makes the big $
More to come.
I thought some might take some interest in my grow room design as it's slightly different. While as you will soon see I am no carpenter (that right there was my disclaimer....yes you may laugh and heckle at my work, I will only cry where you can't see me). I like many have stealth needs, (and dont worry ladies, YES my wife knows
) however the traditional "closet" simply wouldn't fulfill my needs. So I made the "stealth garage shelving unit".I concluded that something was needed that would not stand out to anyone whom may need to enter my garage... such as the legally required yearly city inspection despite my legal medical status (thx alot *&%#ing UC Uni system, for those laws)...or anyone walking by my garage with the door open...like if I was working on 1 off my cars.
I had about 5 sheets of 4'x8' ply board and some miscellaneous 2"x4"s a friend gave me, leftover from a hotel that he helped build (and a few of my own boards/odds and ends from previous projects). So I decided a 10' T x 10' L x 2'.6" W unit would fit the bill. Just deep enough for 2 medium sized plants if scrogged right and just small enough to not come out too far from the wall to look odd. Since my work bench comes out 30" and is on the same wall it all fits rather nicely, with enough space left to work on a car.
So to start the frame:
This is NOT the best way to build a frame...but with the limitation of my materials (and skills) it will due. My reservoir's will be housed here. That is thin carport carpet on top of cement slab. So it isn't absorbent in case of res flood and slopes towards the garage door. The cement also has the benefit of keeping my res temp down.
I braced the feet to the back of the frame and added the floor of the first shelf.
Here I have added some of the walls. The pieces of siding at the top of the walls are recessed 5/8" from the top to allow me to add another piece of ply for the roof. Since this is a rental I want to leave the walls and drywall ceiling as untouched as possible. Making cleanup easier when I move. Also the ply dampens the noise of my fans and equipment quite a bit.
With walls up (and the notch for the water pipe cut) the unit was slid back against the wall to check the fit....
Framing for equipment shelves (far left) and roof added. Also if you look closely I have started caulking all the gaps with window/door caulk (kitchen/bathroom caulk has nasty mold inhibitors that can off-gas).
These equipment shelves will be the only connections to the walls other then a couple 3" deck screws on the far right side through the back wall which will anchor the unit. The AC is top far left and Dehui goes in the middle far left. (after running the system I found the Dehui puts off too much heat in the small environment to be effective, so now it is just extra space for fans and misc. Luckily the AC is waaaay over-sized (at 12,000 BTU) and can handle both jobs just fine).
Framing for the shelves begins. The top right/left wall will have no partition for 1 long scrog. The bottom left will be veg and is 12" wider towards left wall to accommodate mother/clones/teens. Right bottom will have a removable roof for either a quarantine or seed breeding bay or that can be removed for an additional flower chamber.
Front of frames so I can properly weather strip the doors for an air tight fit.
Here's the utility shelves caulked and ready to go.
And doors.
My foreman is showing why he makes the big $
More to come.
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