dirtysteve
Well-Known Member
Well I guess it is finally time to say hello. I have been lurking on RIU for about a year now. Doing my homework so to speak. I am in the design and build stage of my grow room right now. I have a pretty solid background in construction with some electrical experience as well. These skills have certainly helped me in this venture. So now let me tell you about my room.
I created a "secret" room from a couple of unused closets. The only way in or out of the room is through a secret door in the back of a closet. Security is priority number one. The room is roughly 5' x 6' x 8'. I have access to water in the room and plan on installing a small bar sink with drain. That will make things exponentially easier. So far I have the electrics installed. I added a 50A circuit dedicated to the room. I built a sub-panel with 1 20A circuit (2 outlet) for lights and 2 15A circuits (4 outlets each) for pumps, fans and misc.
The plan is to set up a perpetual ebb and flow SOG modeled after the great Al B. Fuct. I will have a 1'x3' tray for mothers under a 400w HPS. The flower chamber will be 2 2'x3' trays under a 600w or 1000w (still debating) hps. This should allow me to run 20-23 plants per flowering tray. With two trays I will be harvesting and feeding new clones in roughly every month. I plan on keeping 8-10 mothers, maybe multiple strains.
The room will have a passive filtered intake and be exhausted by an 8" 565 cfm can fan. I haven't decided on a carbon filter or ozone for odor control yet. Any suggestions are welcome. There will be a dedicated roof vent for the exhaust. The lights will be on a seperate cooling system. The light system will utilize a 6" axial blower sucking air from the house and exhausting through the bathroom vent. I have to get air from inside the house because where I am summers are sweltering and wouldn't make a dent in the light heat.
Humidity is most likely going to be a problem as well. I plan on running the entire system for a week (or longer) to work out the kinks before even cracking a bean.
All walls are insulated as well as the ceeling. I will be painting the walls and ceeling with white roof paint. The paint is 97% reflective and about $20 a gallon. A bit cheaper than b/w poly or mylar and easy to scrub clean. The paint will also help seal the ceeling from any air leaks. The attic air is hotter than Hades in the summer here. I will use b/w poly to make the doors and seperate the mothers from the flowers.
I will probably be starting a thread in the "Design and Setup" forum and I will post some pics there.
Well I suppose that is about it for now. Thanks for stopping by.
Happy farming, DS
A big thanks to everybody on here for all the info. If you are new my only advice is read, read and read some more. I found the answer to almost every question I had with out ever asking.
I created a "secret" room from a couple of unused closets. The only way in or out of the room is through a secret door in the back of a closet. Security is priority number one. The room is roughly 5' x 6' x 8'. I have access to water in the room and plan on installing a small bar sink with drain. That will make things exponentially easier. So far I have the electrics installed. I added a 50A circuit dedicated to the room. I built a sub-panel with 1 20A circuit (2 outlet) for lights and 2 15A circuits (4 outlets each) for pumps, fans and misc.
The plan is to set up a perpetual ebb and flow SOG modeled after the great Al B. Fuct. I will have a 1'x3' tray for mothers under a 400w HPS. The flower chamber will be 2 2'x3' trays under a 600w or 1000w (still debating) hps. This should allow me to run 20-23 plants per flowering tray. With two trays I will be harvesting and feeding new clones in roughly every month. I plan on keeping 8-10 mothers, maybe multiple strains.
The room will have a passive filtered intake and be exhausted by an 8" 565 cfm can fan. I haven't decided on a carbon filter or ozone for odor control yet. Any suggestions are welcome. There will be a dedicated roof vent for the exhaust. The lights will be on a seperate cooling system. The light system will utilize a 6" axial blower sucking air from the house and exhausting through the bathroom vent. I have to get air from inside the house because where I am summers are sweltering and wouldn't make a dent in the light heat.
Humidity is most likely going to be a problem as well. I plan on running the entire system for a week (or longer) to work out the kinks before even cracking a bean.
All walls are insulated as well as the ceeling. I will be painting the walls and ceeling with white roof paint. The paint is 97% reflective and about $20 a gallon. A bit cheaper than b/w poly or mylar and easy to scrub clean. The paint will also help seal the ceeling from any air leaks. The attic air is hotter than Hades in the summer here. I will use b/w poly to make the doors and seperate the mothers from the flowers.
I will probably be starting a thread in the "Design and Setup" forum and I will post some pics there.
Well I suppose that is about it for now. Thanks for stopping by.
Happy farming, DSA big thanks to everybody on here for all the info. If you are new my only advice is read, read and read some more. I found the answer to almost every question I had with out ever asking.
