hanging lights

basically the room im gonna hang my lights in is just a small concrete room. im pretty much retarded when it comes to things like this. the lights ill be hanging will be
like that. what it do

has anyone had any experience with mounting lights into concrete? what do you do drill a hole or something? explaiins

If you go to the upper left hand corner of this page click on GrowFAQ. There are 34 catagories. You should find most all of your needed info there. If you don't come back with detailed questions and we will try to help you out.

ok i am looking to mount light into a concrete ceiling. the FAQ has no guide for this. how detailed do i need to be? molecular structe of concrete? its like Ca2SiO4 or 2CaO.SiO2. i forget.

i could just ask the dudes at home depot i guess, but id rather look dumb on a messageboard instead of irl AMIRITE??

A suggestion. And a question? Is the whole room concrete?
The suggestion. Assuming a concrete room you will probably want to mount some other thing besides a light. They make several different types of fasteners you can use in concrete. If you are going to fasten anything else to the walls you may want to consider mounting a few wolmanized boards to the concrete. Concrete has a low 'R' value. Heat and cold could be a problem.

There are wall taps that basically you drill a pilolet hole in the concrete then you screw the hanger bolt it to the sleeve.Easiest way would be to buy a bang stick which has a .22 caliber shell that drives a special nail into the concrete. Use this to fasten a 2x4 to the ceileing in the center of the grow area. Thjis gives you abiliity to move light or add lights with just simple hooks.The bang stick looks like a slide hammer with an orange hanlde. You slide the nail into the barrel tip insert the shel into the breach slide closed put it where you want the nail and then hit the top with a hammer explodeing the shell driving the nail into the concrete. These are used to secure wall plates to concret floors or driving nails into steel beams.Home depot has these will cost about 25-30 bucks for the gun nails and shot and a 2.4

get a hammer drill and either chemset's or dynabolts that would be the easiest way , dont feel dumb to ask questions a home depot or where ever thats what they get paid to do or just dont go stoned .

if i were you id erect some sort of free standing wooden structure to provide more insulation to the grow, and if anything ever goes wrong, theres no perma-permanent traces to be found. videoman has a thread with a great example of grow-housing..

gl man xx

While what FilthyFletch recommends, is the correct answer, it sounds to me that if you didnt know the answer, your most probably are not comfortable doing it. If that is the case, another solution might be to install an adjustable closet pole, and hang the light from the pole.
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