This has been in the planning stages for almost a 1 1/2 year. You can see my first post about it here:

the attic grow room debate

I'll give a quick summary. My wife and I just tired to looking for it. My wife and I both professionals, so it's always been hard hooking up with pot. I wouldn't say were are heavy smokers, just in the evenings during weekdays and all day on the weekends And to be honest, the weed we get is always brick, swag weed. It does it's job but........its fucking swag!

The planning started some time ago. And the construction began back in november. I would not recomend that everyone try this. My attic is trussed and was never meant to have a habital room up there. I've been involved in construction all my life and been designing buildings for 12 years now. I'll try and explain the building process per picture in the next posts. Below is a JPEG of the design.

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Below are pics of the construction. Pics 1 and 2 are of the attic space before construction. It was pretty messy up there.

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the best part about growing in your attic is you can simply exhaust directly from your attic fan and drawl in fresh air from your eve's . my only concern is that during summer months you'll need a portable A/C wich you should be able to find on Craigslist for pretty damn cheap!! Subscribed.....

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Pics 3 and 4 are the start of the construction. My attic was constructed using roof trusses. It was meant for light storage. I decided to install 2x6 joists along side of the 2x4 bottom cords of the trusses. This will make the floor alittle more sturdy and alow me place atleast an R-19 insullation in the floor.

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Well, I had to install an exhaust vent today. Was not fun hanging on the roof. I needed to vent it away from the house towards the back. My air handler is located right next to the grow room, so the room will be heated and cooled. And I already know I'm going to need a portable AC for the hot summer months. I'm at the end of framing right now. Wait till you see the rest of the pics.

Nice! I can tell you're an architect; my sister who is one too uses a similar program to do everything, same font and everything!

But what lights are you planning on using? Thats a pretty big area. To cover 36 ft2 for your flowering room with 7,500 lumens/ft2, you'll need either: (2) 1000w HPS's and (1) 400w HPS's, or (4) 600w HPS's. And to cover your 18 ft2 veg room with 6000 lumens/ft2, you'll need either: (2) 600w MH's, or (3) 400w MH's. In both cases, I'd go with the second choice, for more even light coverage and easier heat management.

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Pics 5 and 6 show the joists are all installed and the subflooring being installed. Installing those joists were a night mare! It was just hard work. And took alot longer then I anticapated.

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yeah man. cut another 6" or 7" flex run in from the trunk and steal a little from the air handler. im guessing your air handlers sitting horizontally from the looks of the attic . dont know why i just said that. I'm stoned, sorry. but anyways, do you know what strain you plan on going with? something short obviously, since you're gonna have height issues. if you dont know where to get your seeds at the 2 best websites is attitude.com and dopeseeds.com. they ship to the US and pretty dam fast 1-2 weeks MAX!

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Pics 7 and 8 show the flooring is all installed and the framing of the knee walls has begun. It was such a relief to have the floor installed! Just being able to walk from one end to the other.......it was a real milestone. My wife and went out to diner that night to celebrate. She has her job too. She's put her self in charge of finance. And she's good at it! We had a budget placed and she has kept track of every single penny!

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I think I'm going to go with just one 600 watt hps. Cool tube obviously to cut down on heat. My buddy has one and you can put your hand right on the tube. Creates no heat at all.

My buddy has white rhino and aurora indica cloning right now. And we did order from attitude.