Wanna help design a room?

Ok after lurking in the shadows of this forum for a while now I have decided to jump in with both feet and get started on a grow room design. I always enjoy the posts where everyone gets involved with the design of the project. Plus when you get all the help at the start you really limit the mistakes.


I have decided on a few things already. I wanna go with a homemade aeroponic system. I am either going to clone a Aerojet or a Aquamist system. I am a very DIY guy so building and tinkering are the fun parts to me.

I have a 15,000 Btu air conditioner sitting in my garage ready to use and I say the budget of this room should be in the $1500 to $2500 range.

I have added pictures of the building that I am going to use. As of right now the rafters are open inside and the walls are framed and it has a wood floor. I plan on closing that in but figured laying out all the air ducting first would be wise.

I am also open to cutting open anything in the roof/walls,etc. Whatever needs to be done I am ok with.

So let me have it, what would you do if you were me? What lights, what layout, what other equiptment?

Thanks everyone in advance for helping me with this pet project. I can't wait to get started.

well how much are you planning on making? do you just want a small grow for like you and your girlfriend or are you gonna be one of these guys who steals electricity and ends up on the news for operating a marijuana grow house? so how much weed do you want to make?

Do you plan on one room to do it all, or 2 rooms, veg and bud?

I am planning on splitting it into two rooms for Veg/flowering. As for the other question I am not going to steal power. Lets just say I want to grow as much as the $1500 to $2500 start-up budget will allow.

Well, thats a small size,8x10 or a little less.....alot less when divided....

First you need a grow plan. How many plants per cycle? SOG? Hydro?Soil? Aero? Whats the living environment around it. (growing out buildings can suck) What is the natural climate in you are? Many, many things to consider.

For me, I am turning a 20x9x9 reefer trailer into my growroom. its densly insulated, and has faverable wall and ceiling covering. It also has a stainless steel floor. Not to mention its portable if needed.

I plan to make two 8x8x8 ft int rooms with a small "lab" between them. I plan to cut a hole in the side, midsection,and install an insulated commercial door that opens to this "lab". I will enter the rooms from here....The lab will have two 5000 btu a/c units(one for each room) exiting from the grow rooms, co2 bottle set-up that will be piped over the top of the plants though a stone(co2 is heavyer than air, I want it to "rain" on the plants) I am going with soil, there will be strip heaters in there for winter. I'm using a 1000w HPS and a 1000 w MH. Its very important to have this air tight as possible, I don't want co2 escaping. I will purge the room as needed(again through the "lab").

My grow plan is 4 plants of 4 different strains being harvested every 3 weeks. That makes 16 plants in the flowering room, and as many clones needed in the vegging room. Each plant will be LSDed and vegged to 24-36 inches then put in the flowering room with hopes of a 5 ft plant when done. I hope to yield 8oz per plant.


I don't know if a third room or "lab" would be what you want, but for me using high intensity lights a lab is nesessary.

Your space could use 400w lights with proper ventalation/cooling you should do fine.

Is there electricity in the building? Or did you just build it?
Is it near the house?
Is it going to be exposed to direct sunlight?
Does it get super cold in the winter?
For cheap building materials hit up your local Habitat for Humanity outlet. They have all sorts of stuff. Plywood, doors, windows, flooring, siding, cabinetry, all a hell of alot cheaper than home depot. Sure most of it is used but lil sandpaper and paint and booya!

That sounds sweet Seasmoke. You could build some sick manifolds for your CO2 system out of copper. It can get pricey. Just a word to anyone planning on soldering copper for your CO2 system.

Flux and solder used to solder copper for H2O pipe will contaminate the piping. Although it can be cleaned out. By purging the system with a chlorine bleach and water solution. That is how plumbers clean out water lines on new buildings, before anyone moves in and starts drinking or using water. This can be tedious. Or you can get copper fittings that press together no soldering required. There is a brand called Shark Bite they make these kind of fittings.

I am a licensed comm. plumber, and I have been dying to run a sick ass CO2 system out of copper. It would definitely go with your lab theme.

now that I think about it T-Budz. your right. I'll just drill some holes above center along the pipe and cap the ends....it'll work like a gas grill.....(if I could figure out the smileys i'd "thumbs up" ya.

I won't use copper, but i will use 3/4 inch PVC conduit,glue a screw on nipple and screw the hoses from the tanks on. They are lightweight, and sterile enough.(people drink from plumbing made from it)

I have all the pieces except where I want to put the Reefer(cool name huh?I'm growing reefer in a reefer)

Oh and hey, no offense to your plumbing skills. I just see it cost friendly to use PVC. Its just a straight pipe with $.99 fittings and 1/2 hours time, if it gets contaminated i'll replace it

That is too funny. I have a 20 foot shipping container sitting around but that will be used for build #2. I wanted to start small to make sure I work out all the kinks. The building is all alone with no one to look at what I have going on. Climate here is typical Canadian BS. Warm in the summer, shitty in the winter. The good thing is I have a ton of insulation and drywall laying around and I plan on making this thing a energy efficient monster.

I am going to go Aeroponic on both the Veg room and the Flowering room. The idea was to replicate the See more buds DVD as close as I could get it. With that being said I wanna get as many plants into my Flowering room as possible.

Your design sounds very interesting to me.

Tyrannabudz said:

Is there electricity in the building? Or did you just build it?
Is it near the house?
Is it going to be exposed to direct sunlight?
Does it get super cold in the winter?
For cheap building materials hit up your local Habitat for Humanity outlet. They have all sorts of stuff. Plywood, doors, windows, flooring, siding, cabinetry, all a hell of alot cheaper than home depot. Sure most of it is used but lil sandpaper and paint and booya!

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There is no electricity but its close to the house. I would do the room in the house but I have a finished basement and there is no place to really put it.

Yes it gets direct sunlight but has siding and shingles on it just like a house. And once I finish the inside it will have lots of R-30 insulation in it. I wanted to lay out all the duct work and fans and such before I do that work.

I will have to put a heater in it during the winter.

I have tons of building materials at my disposal for free, plywood, insulation, drywall, etc.


Thanks you everyone for the input already. Lots of good info.

Shoot, shingle the container,lol.

Haha, the time will come for that bad boy.

if you never grew before i would grow 1 or a few plants in soil so you atleast get a feel for what your doing before you spend all this money on a little grow house

I've grown before so I know my way around a few plants. The main idea of this thread was half curiosity to see how guys would lay out the lights, ducting, fans, etc. And half about what guys would do with the budget of $1500 to $2500. My favorite part of this forum is the "fantasy factory" portion of builds. There are tons of really smart people on here with some amazing ideas.

do something like gypsy's massive grow, im sure youve seen it around

I actually have not. I did a search on the name but it didn't come up.

Tebb,
If you don't mind a suggestion, I would consider cool tube lights...(if your dividing the room say aprox 10x5 rectanular, buy two of them for each room) vent both the intake and exhausts into the wall then down through the floor and vent it under the building. Use 6" stovepipe inside the walls,You may have to add wood strips to the studs to make it fit good. use elbows and screw them together so they won't come apart. Connect flexible hose to the lights and the elbows and you have a built in venting system. This will allow you to take off the banking of your building during the warmer months and the wind will disperse the heat, in the cold months with the banking on, this will help keep the floor warm for your plants. It will also remove most of the heat from the room while keeping it sealed for co2 use.


Alright enough of my rambling...

None taken Seasmoke I just like copper cuz it's so pretty. In these economic times cost is everything. Just make sure you let your piping air out after you glue it together, your ladies probably won't like pvc glue vapors. I'm sure you know that already. You could set it up like a Co2 sprinkler system all along the ceiling.

R-30 damn that's better than my house! Do you really need the window seems like it might be a security issue.Or I guess it could probably help with ventilation. And according to your drawing you have the door swinging out that is good cuz it is hard to kick in a door that swings out.

Tbudz, are you really into copper?? I have a great idea..................pm me......i think you'll like this.....