Hi i am currently trying to set up my veg room. I am going soil 36 plants in the room. My room is 12x8 ft so i thing that is a good size size up with 6 ft ceilings. The sides of the room are made of old wood style and the ceiling is dropped ceiling with white squares and the floor is carpeted. I was trying to get some ideas how i should set it up i was thinking of using dry wall and rebuiilding it or do you think i can get bye with just putting white curtains over the ceilings and the walls and ripping carpet out and putting mylar on it any suggestions how to set it up.
Need advice with my set up
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Mupphet.Man
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Don't put mylar on the floors if that's what you meant. Put mylar on the walls, and that should be good for reflective purposes. I would tear up that carpet so the room will be easier to keep clean, prevent mold, etc. 12'x8' isn't bad, one thing I do is build mylar panels. You can do that by just using cardboard and applying the mylar to it. Then you can hang/position the panels closer to the plants to limit your light spread. As the plants grow you can move the panels, or remove them, whatever make the most sense to you at the time.
Hope it helps. Peace.
Oh, I wouldn't let them veg too long unless you bend the over/top them because 6' doesn't give too much clearance.
Hope it helps. Peace.
Oh, I wouldn't let them veg too long unless you bend the over/top them because 6' doesn't give too much clearance.
Mupphet.Man
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As far as temps go, you will be battling heat if you're using HID's - which I recommend you do if you're going to use that size room. If the room has a window, (hopefully it doesn't face the street/other houses, etc), I would put an air conditioner in it. Be sure to seal all windows/doors of light as well. Put a curtain in the windows then put black plastic over them on the inside, or build a false back drop so that people won't know what's going on in there.
Mupphet.Man
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Alternatively to the air conditioner you might be able to get away with air cooled fixtures which get expensive, but there are some good do it yourself's on this website. Just search "diy cool tube rollitup" on google and you will find some good ones. I don't like the rollitup search feature, so I use google.
Peace.
Peace.
collective gardener
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In the long run you'll want solid walls. Our current build we chose to sheet the walls with plywood, as oposed to drywall because we want to be able to screw equipment to the wall anywhere we want. This makes it quite easy to keep equipment off of the flloor. We also installed shelves for cloning trays under flouros. These can be placed close to the cieling where it's warmer for the rooting clones. White paint is VERY close to mylar in effective light reflection.
Home Depot carries a portable 10,000btu air conditioner made by LG. It's 300 bucks and needs only a 4" exhaust duct, which can go into attic or outside. This will effectively cool a room burning 2 - 1000 watt non-air cooled lights.
Take a look at our thread for some ideas:
https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/407048-20-000-watt-medical-grow.html
Home Depot carries a portable 10,000btu air conditioner made by LG. It's 300 bucks and needs only a 4" exhaust duct, which can go into attic or outside. This will effectively cool a room burning 2 - 1000 watt non-air cooled lights.
Take a look at our thread for some ideas:
https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/407048-20-000-watt-medical-grow.html
I like the idea of the plywood I think going that route also what do you think about the drop ceiling should I do that plywood also. I had someone suggest some kind of commercial ceiling so I can hang stuff like my lights etc. I really never heard of that but I'm not a carpenter so he might know better.
collective gardener
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A plywood cieling makes hanging lights, ducting, and inline fans quite simple. The last few commercial ops I've built have started out as painted white plywood "boxes". The next thing I do is install a sub-panel (or, in the case of my latest op, 3 sub panels). Try and use exterior ply so that there's no delamination if it gets wet...and it will get wet.
Mupphet.Man
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Hey man, that all sounds fine too. The only thing I would add is that though white paint is very close to mylar I prefer hanging mylar than painting. I hate fucking painting. Lol.
I found a 30' roll of mylar on Amazon on the cheap. Amazon is my favorite grow store.