Just Found A Secret Loftspace - Future Grow Room
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Brick Top
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It is obvious that attic space, not a loft, has what is most commonly called attic blankets, rolls of insulation that are thicker/taller than the joists they lay between.
If you put down flooring you will compress the insulation and you will lose a good bit of its insulating properties.
HHGTTG420
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Ooooh good catch! Electric bill will suffer if you render the insulation invalid. Though I don't know how much depending on how you insulate the grow room. If you insulate the grow room good enough, it'll probably offset any loss you get from squishing the attic blankets.
Anyone with a better idea on these types of things?
Brick Top
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I did not read the entire thread so maybe I missed it but what I read had a rather difficult to use entrance to the attic space as the only way in. Was some better access point found or made that I do not know of?
　
The reason I ask is before anyone should bother to put to much thought into this they need to know if what they think up could even be done due to a possible lack of ability to get various things, building materials etc., into the attic space.
　
The reason I ask is before anyone should bother to put to much thought into this they need to know if what they think up could even be done due to a possible lack of ability to get various things, building materials etc., into the attic space.
mercer88
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ill be able to do it.. 100%
the chimney access is big enough to take lights, mylar, and loft boards up ect,
as for the insulation, ill come to that hurdle when i need to,
ill be building a hydro system up there, stadium or vertical method, using 4 inch pvc gutter pipe, and 2 x 2's
the chimney access is big enough to take lights, mylar, and loft boards up ect,
as for the insulation, ill come to that hurdle when i need to,
ill be building a hydro system up there, stadium or vertical method, using 4 inch pvc gutter pipe, and 2 x 2's
terrorizer805
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I don't know seems like a good idea but what a hassle to water those plants with your only access to the room is via chiminey. good luck on that.
terrorizer805
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I also want to see how big the chiminey entrance is haha!!
mercer88
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doitinthewoods
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Santa is going to get all fucked up at your place and forget all the other kids.
Brick Top
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I am just trying to figure out what vintage the home must be. While in high school and college in the 70s in the summers I worked with a friend whose family had a carpentry business. I have seen many chimneys and some were pretty darn old and some were pretty darn large but I do not recall ever seeing one that was so old that it did not have some sort of offset and damper setup or if they did not they were never nearly large enough for a monkey to crawl up let alone a human of average size or more. I just did not see things like that so it makes me wonder about the age of the building.
　
Also for a rather long time chimneys have had liners, they have been double wall and were rock or brick or tile or now double wall stainless steel .. but the point is for ages they have been double wall so did you have to break through two layers of something to find the attic space or was it only a single layer in the side of the chimney?
　
Also for a rather long time chimneys have had liners, they have been double wall and were rock or brick or tile or now double wall stainless steel .. but the point is for ages they have been double wall so did you have to break through two layers of something to find the attic space or was it only a single layer in the side of the chimney?
terrorizer805
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ROFL! Very funny but very good idea aswell.
mercer88
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was a whole chimney, no ofset, chimney top turns into a double circle
anyways,
house is victorian i think
very old,
alot of decorative marble everywere
Kushalicious
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Wow you suck.. i want your house..
I'd just run a rope down the chimney and haul everything up in a bucket. Man I gotta move and find somethin like this.. dunno how you'd ask the realtor if you can go into the attic and knock on the walls though ;p
I'd just run a rope down the chimney and haul everything up in a bucket. Man I gotta move and find somethin like this.. dunno how you'd ask the realtor if you can go into the attic and knock on the walls though ;p
doitinthewoods
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the double circle thing you were talking about....are they chimney caps, or is it bricked out in to double circles. That's something commonly used in Tudor style houses.
It could be a tudor revival era house which would make it anywhere from 100 years old to 70 years old. From the looks of the inside of that brick, 100 years sounds about right.
this isn't a very tudor looking house, but the chimney is.
wtf, why aren't my pics working. Anyway, look up "tudor" style houses
Buddreams
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I think it brings a whole new meaning to Santa Clause at your house
sloshedcookie
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the offer still opean to help build it as il to give it a go
mercer88
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sorry dude, would love some help from a fellow riu member,
unfortunatly............
im in
A FEW IMAGES I STOLE FROM GOOGLE TO HELP YOU OUT HEHEHEHEEEE
LOL, UNDERSTAND ?
