Why does my house still smell Like Marijuana!!

Cl@rksville said:

Aaahh you see I have circumcisional evidence on this...

I had mine near the door and when I went in closing the door behind me it wafted a stinky cloud straight upstairs and it was my Girlfriend at the time who noticed it. I did a smoke bomb test and by far the best result was Inlet/Intake by the door/outlet furthest away but in the closed environment test as in no intake just exhausting the smoke, the most effective placement was top centre. I suppose theres a happy medium somewhere but mine is central top with 2 intakes either end of room. I also bought these sticky zips and made a polythene sealed door for every room entry. £8 and they work very well...

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The Nine said:

Op
There is still info needed to get a better comprehension of you issues.
What size is your room?
Where do you dry your bud?
Where do you smoke your bud?
Where do you store your clothes that you use inside the grow room?
Is your exhaust fan working constantly?

Your room doesn't need to be sealed tight at all.
You simply need good air circulation inside your grow area via oscillating fans. And negative pressure is the key.
If there is slight negative pressure then the pull will remove all stale/smelly air.

Rather than buy a new filter you could buy a another inline fan and attach it at the other end of your ducting run, to vastly increase the pull on your filter, this can be on a timer set to run for 5 minutes every 20 mins ( you only need 3 air changes per hour to eliminate smells once your systems is right)

A really good trick when you are in The shit with your smell is to scrub the air in your house.
There is a very simple and cheap way to do this.
This is a good tip for anyone with smell issues that need an instant remedy btw.
Buy a loaf of cheap bread.
Disconnect your smoke alarms.
Close all doors windows on the property
Put your grill on high and put as many pieces of bread under the grill as you can fit in.
Now burn that toast black and leave it burning
(Obviously so it's not a fire hazzard)
As the house fills with burnt toast smoke, the carbon in the smoke will be acting like a giant scrubber neutralising the terpenes leaving the burnt toast smell.
Keep changing the bread under the grill until every room in the house smells of burnt toast.

Burn toast smell is not pleasent but much less stressful than the smell of fresh bud ha ha.

Now you can turn off the grill, open the windows are change the air in your property.
As the air changes and the smell diminishes, use your nose to find out where the mj smell first appears over the next couple of hours to determine your point of interest.

Hope this helps you mate.

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ttystikk said:

Mmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmmm... toasty!

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The Nine said:

Op
There is still info needed to get a better comprehension of you issues.

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Cl@rksville said:

Ha ha so the mud is basically plaster then lol, or not? Anyway I had an image of an africans 16th century mud hut!
That rooms a beauty mate, good set up just needs some tweaking here and there like anyone elses. I changed mine round 3-4-5 times last grow and improved it every time, made some basic errors but all done on a budget of sweet fuck all using old lamps, borrowed this, stolen that, donated, pawned and second hand gear. I think a great room takes 2-3 grows before its all dialled in unless you have shitpots of cash and and all the time in the world to build the room, backed up by your experience of course! I hate tents personally but its the way forward for indoor I s'pose, keeps things simple and much easier to dial in.

I just did a run using a can-fan 8" 800? ish cfm in a 5 light roomwith 16 super stinky blueberry JH Cheese and it does stink believe me, we had a strain here in the 90's called Exodus Cheese which could overpower most home systems and this is on a level par easily!!!. But basically after stopping the co2 and recircing cos the smell was too bad, I run the duct straigth outside and put the carbon straight above the plants instead of to the side, the smell was all sorted.
ORIGINALLY HAD IT TO THE SIDE... View attachment 3537436
THEN I MOVED IT ABOVE LIGHTS... View attachment 3537437

I see your filters also sat on its coned end on the floor? It has a detrimental effect to the environment when air is pulled from down below as well as losing efficiency. I remember studying air flow systems a bit at agri-college, but from memory you draw a good deal of the heavier (AND BENEFICIAL) co2 which is harder to push for a smaller fan. This causes a back draft of heavy co2 (odourised in your case possibly) air dropping back into the room effecting the ppms, which for us is ok because we don't inject over 1200ppms for MJ normally but when farms have people inside all day and ppms go up to 5000 lol they can be explaining a few dead illegal immigrants!
I'm like a woman with a party sausage endowed fat fella fucking her, its up top for me every time mate but someones gonna say it doesn't make a difference... the position of fan not the sausage bit

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Before i built this room i made a custom 5x5 tent in the corner of my basement with panda plastic and gorilla tape. Had 1000 watt light and grew 1 huge ass plant that i pulled 1/ 1/2 pound off of.

HAHA no indoor mud hut here Again, lots of great information i appreciate it. First thing first, i will be taking the filter off the ground tonight. A friend also donated a lot of stuff to me too, i have a bin i get to pick through and find random things that suddenly appear useful that didn't before lol. this is my second grow in this room, and i agree, i think after this next run i should have things dialed in.

I don't use co2, but ive been thinking about implementing it into my next grow. I've read quite a few books, videos, and been scouring these forums for quite some time now. never have i heard of that but i also took chemistry and that sounds pretty legit and plausible. Heat rises as well so the it should help with temps too. pulling cooler air up and sucking hotter air out that rises.

You lost me on the dead illegal immigrants, fucking a fat woman in a room full of co2 while curing sausages at 5000ppms lmao!!

Digital_life said:

Here is a list of forgotten items on the checklist to seal that most forget;
1.electrical sockets
2.Drywall (PVA) coat will produce a water proof layer.
3. Base of Drywall, small air gaps can be found. Surround venting ducts.
4. Unbalanced pressure, this is the biggest issue with most grow rooms mostly from One fan pull, one fan push. Negative pressure is the key. If you don't have it. The room will push the excess air out of even the smallest of spaces and expand throughout your house.

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VTMi'kmaq said:

Dude if wose dome to worse become a hermit for 60-90 days...........i adore the smell of a good plant, (even though some believe happy plants dont stink) I for one believe they do and will make a stanky situation quickly once they get big. You could always EMBRACE the smell.............and not awenser that door for 60-90 days. Ive done alot longer when it was needed, and it was at a hotel room no less! Back when we had to do what we hadda do !

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Joe Buddens said:

Before i built this room i made a custom 5x5 tent in the corner of my basement with panda plastic and gorilla tape. Had 1000 watt light and grew 1 huge ass plant that i pulled 1/ 1/2 pound off of.

HAHA no indoor mud hut here Again, lots of great information i appreciate it. First thing first, i will be taking the filter off the ground tonight. A friend also donated a lot of stuff to me too, i have a bin i get to pick through and find random things that suddenly appear useful that didn't before lol. this is my second grow in this room, and i agree, i think after this next run i should have things dialed in.

I don't use co2, but ive been thinking about implementing it into my next grow. I've read quite a few books, videos, and been scouring these forums for quite some time now. never have i heard of that but i also took chemistry and that sounds pretty legit and plausible. Heat rises as well so the it should help with temps too. pulling cooler air up and sucking hotter air out that rises.

You lost me on the dead illegal immigrants, fucking a fat woman in a room full of co2 while curing sausages at 5000ppms lmao!!

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MonsterDrank said:

either no one asked.. or i skipped past it.. but a key thing to ask here,and is very important to know.. how big is this room length,width, height.

with my 6" fan running a similar filter,a profilter 70s.<---LINK.... fan is 440cfm.. i have to run it close to at 90% speed on my fan speed controller to effectively clear my room. at 70% it wasn't effective in flower but was for veg.

i also use a uvonair 3000 o3 generator..<---LINK love it. keep it on a timer,15 minutes on,15 off.. all day long..... and with over 20 plants in bloom...u can't smell shit. i've used this now for 5 years.. wouldn't grow without it. i keep it right in my growroom near the door on a shelf.

my room is roughly 18' x 14' x 10' high... not sealed, just a big bedroom.10k btu window AC unit running tho all the time.

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The Nine said:

Op
There is still info needed to get a better comprehension of you issues.
What size is your room?
Where do you dry your bud?
Where do you smoke your bud?
Where do you store your clothes that you use inside the grow room?
Is your exhaust fan working constantly?

Your room doesn't need to be sealed tight at all.
You simply need good air circulation inside your grow area via oscillating fans. And negative pressure is the key.
If there is slight negative pressure then the pull will remove all stale/smelly air.

Rather than buy a new filter you could buy a another inline fan and attach it at the other end of your ducting run, to vastly increase the pull on your filter, this can be on a timer set to run for 5 minutes every 20 mins ( you only need 3 air changes per hour to eliminate smells once your systems is right)

A really good trick when you are in The shit with your smell is to scrub the air in your house.
There is a very simple and cheap way to do this.
This is a good tip for anyone with smell issues that need an instant remedy btw.
Buy a loaf of cheap bread.
Disconnect your smoke alarms.
Close all doors windows on the property
Put your grill on high and put as many pieces of bread under the grill as you can fit in.
Now burn that toast black and leave it burning
(Obviously so it's not a fire hazzard)
As the house fills with burnt toast smoke, the carbon in the smoke will be acting like a giant scrubber neutralising the terpenes leaving the burnt toast smell.
Keep changing the bread under the grill until every room in the house smells of burnt toast.

Burn toast smell is not pleasent but much less stressful than the smell of fresh bud ha ha.

Now you can turn off the grill, open the windows are change the air in your property.
As the air changes and the smell diminishes, use your nose to find out where the mj smell first appears over the next couple of hours to determine your point of interest.

Hope this helps you mate.

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ttystikk said:

Methinks you're all just doin' a bunch of 'humblebragging' an' that's just not gonna work around these parts, hear? At least, not unless I get to join in...

I gave been told I need a new filter cover on my carbon filter periodically. Is this true? The one currently in place is definitely grubby, even though I'm soilless.

Did I make a mistake by getting one too big? Mine is the 1.75m can filter with a 12" fan on it. I was told there's no such thing as overkill. Perhaps that's incorrect?

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ttystikk said:

Methinks you're all just doin' a bunch of 'humblebragging' an' that's just not gonna work around these parts, hear? At least, not unless I get to join in...

I gave been told I need a new filter cover on my carbon filter periodically. Is this true? The one currently in place is definitely grubby, even though I'm soilless.

Did I make a mistake by getting one too big? Mine is the 1.75m can filter with a 12" fan on it. I was told there's no such thing as overkill. Perhaps that's incorrect?

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The_Herban_Legend said:

I want those kind of problems lol.

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Cl@rksville said:

.. I'd rather have a fan that can suck my brains out, rather than one that (as my brother used to say) "wouldn't pull'the skin off a rice pudding"

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Joe Buddens said:

carbon filters aren't just for grow rooms. I think they have carbom filter for your heating / cooling system but those are expensive.

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