No offense, but there's no need for such intense concern, I'll be ok. Admittedly, there is a lot more to this than I thought at first. However, that only means that it will take longer to do. At first, I had some haired-brained idea that it would only take about a month... Haha, joke's on me. As far as final plans go, I have no idea what I'll wind up constructing until I'm through. I Know it sounds bat-shit nuts, but "the room" will "tell" me what I need to do. It's ok, I've built things with that concept before. Believe it or not, it works really well. Kinda like functional art. I do have a few concrete facts though:I hope you know where any and all utility lines are running around on your property, because you might think, "well the power line is right there, so the line must go underground here!"
is not always the case, and you say this is in a shed correct, what kind of bracing and shoring are you going to be doing on the overhead and sidewalls....which honestly if you arent doing a poured concrete floor with rebar, nothing will hold the sides in short of digging holes and pouring concrete and rebar for support beams in the corners, I say these things because digging and building underground, ESPECIALLY COVERTLY with no real knowledge of structural engineering is pretty foolish to say the least.
Not trying to rain on your parade BUT building is kinda my blood....and I have done underground construction....its not easy. ANY ?'s though and I would be happy to answer them.
I just saw the rough sketches you got a little clearer 4' to surface, better have 5k minimum in rebar and concrete and quite a bit of 4x4's and 2x6's and 2x8's and FUCKTON of 1" PLYWOOD not barkchips glued in a pancake fashion pressboard crap....real PLYWOOD 1" THICK DOUBLE LAYERED or you will be buried alive like a trenchdog in nam.
Maybe she has enough common sense, not to allow you dig your own grave?Interesting change of plans... After I went through all the trouble of digging a HUGE hole in the ground, my wife tells me to grow in the closet. But not just grow some, oh no. "Take measurements and grow AS MUCH WEED AS I CAN GROW! Kinda sucks I dug so much, but now I can use that start to make a spot to develop my new strain.... I'll keep you folks posted.
Funny. The u/g grow was her idea. \Maybe she has enough common sense, not to allow you dig your own grave?
I personally know of someone who was buried alive digging a simple trench. Cave-ins are common, and you should have been shoring up as you went.
Hopefully nobody else follows your example.
Nobody said it wasn't possible, just that it's extremely unsafe unless you do it properly.building underground isn't impossible... mexicans and canadians build tunnels into the U.S. all the time...
EXACTLY, I guarantee you for every 10 mexicans working on a tunnel to get into the us, 3 die from collapse or just sheer stupidity when it comes to subterranean building requirements....Nobody said it wasn't possible, just that it's extremely unsafe unless you do it properly.
That, and the fact that it's fucking hard work.
My apologies for not explaining the reasoning behind this thoroughly enough last time. My buddy was actually the inspiration for this idea, because he is 20 and lives still with his mother who is no longer to keen on the green. When I was at his place a few nights ago he was talking about wanting to set up another growbox, but doesn't appear have any room inside for one so we were trying to find decent alternatives for him. He has a outdoor electrical outlet that is hidden under his deck so if the wire stayed underground just until it got to the deck it would be unnoticed and we began suggesting a somewhat similar idea, I just kinda ran with it a little much on this thread. But as we are both still in school full time the luxary of an underground room like that even if we split it is still not reasonable at this point in time (hopefully one day soon, that would be a dream).My first question would be WHY? that is an inherently flawed idea. does it rain in your locale? how odd would it look with extension cords running in a spider configuration all across your lawn to power those lights? no lights? using the sun? well then youve got 20 exposed open holes? my advice to people who want stealth, DONT TELL ANYONE, then when you are about to start talking about it to someone, KICK YOURSELF IN NUTS!!! I am currently run and am getting ready to start a 3600w flower room, I have a 600w mom room and have no issues, IF you are dead SET on going uderground, get a business license together and get a loan go to www.monolithic.com and get a custom build model 24 cabin to suit underground needs, be about 35k$ installed waterproofed and entrance way constructed and sealed, that would give you 200 swuare feet in a 12 foot wide 24' long underground room, and i guarantee that it will outlast you and your kids and your kids kids.
That would depend on many things. Elevation, angle, and soil quality are some things to look at.My apologies for not explaining the reasoning behind this thoroughly enough last time. My buddy was actually the inspiration for this idea, because he is 20 and lives still with his mother who is no longer to keen on the green. When I was at his place a few nights ago he was talking about wanting to set up another growbox, but doesn't appear have any room inside for one so we were trying to find decent alternatives for him. He has a outdoor electrical outlet that is hidden under his deck so if the wire stayed underground just until it got to the deck it would be unnoticed and we began suggesting a somewhat similar idea, I just kinda ran with it a little much on this thread. But as we are both still in school full time the luxary of an underground room like that even if we split it is still not reasonable at this point in time (hopefully one day soon, that would be a dream).
So just doing the another box in this manner (even if it was only one, my plans tend to get a little grandious at time, thats where 15 came from lol) would be very cost efficent. Sorry I guess I should of mentioned that before lol. Is there a reasonable way to protect against flooding?