New place, new room to design.

After dealing with my first grow room and its many design flaws for long enough, the wife and I have packed up and headed for more legal pastures. So here we are in N. Colorado, and its time to build something to replace this boring, off-white extra bedroom with something more beautiful.

With the deconstruction of our last place being a huge pain, I have decided this time to build my own grow tents, hoping to reduce or eliminate some of the damage done. I really don't feel like shelling out the cash to buy a tent so this seemed like an easy way to use my reflective materials and keep the cost down.

I have several reflective tarps, and quite a bit of reflectix I am going to try and use first before I go buy any mylar or more reflectix so i know that this may end up being a "Frankentent" but it can only be better than my open room of wasted light I'm used to.

So far I have decided on 3 separate chambers, veg, flower, and a smaller breeding tent to be put elsewhere in the house. Pretty simple design, 2X4 framing with an additional center beam for light fixtures, wrapped in previously mentioned materials with a small velcro tarp door being fashioned in place somewhere.

Here's where i could use some suggestions, I prefer open bulb fixtures to cooltubes etc, so I am hoping that leaving the tops of both the veg and flower tents uncovered will allow me to do this without having to actively cool the bulbs, giving it a nice passive vent for hot air to escape. I am not concerned about smell so much (legal now!!) but i do have a very nice O3 generator that I may put in the room which I will more than likely use just out of respect for my neighbors. In other words, I'm not missing out on carbon scrubbing due to the open tops of the tents because this thing is a beast. Breeding chamber will not follow this open design for obvious reasons.

I run 600w mh/hps with open hoods for veg/flower, with the NoCo climate should i expect to have any heat issues in the coming months or do you guys think that the open top vented tent with a window in the room venting outdoors would be sufficient? Is the window being open even necessary? The only thing i could think of being an issue is humidity in the veg chamber getting low, but that can be easily fixed, should be ideal for flower though.

Thoughts? I will post pictures to this thread as i put this all together, should be able to pick up most of the lumber today or tomorrow.

Veg will be 4'X3'X7'-8' tall. Flower I am looking at 4'X8'X7'-8' tall. Wanting to finish these two first before starting on the breeding box so will get to that later.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions on ways to improve this setup.

- Thay

i will like to see what you come up with... good luck

Picked up all the lumber yesterday, only around 45 bucks for everything, not bad for a 3x3 veg tent and 8x4 flower tent, certainly better than what it would have cost me for something pre-fabbed of equal size. Going to blaze some Think Different and knock out the framing today, will post some pics here later today or tomorrow.

I'm trying to keep these as light as possible to be able to move them around as i build more tents over the next year for this room so going with just a heavy duty tarp flooring, more than enough to eliminate any chance of spills.