Underground sea container grow room!

cseidler420

Active Member
Air vents are required. What if it rains? Still using a ton of electricity. Expensive as fuck. Thought about it myself however.
why would this use more electricity than a normal grow room of the same size? and this is obviously not for someone who is strapped for cash. A venting system could easily be disguised as a bush or something else and the rain would have no affect if it was properly sealed as it should be.
 

Arrid

Well-Known Member
You can get "Rain cap vents" for roofing that are perfect for what you are looking for. just put it half a foot above ground to minimize any water intake.

I'd be careful about this grow..
During the winter, if it snows where you are, you may find that the heat the box gives off causes the snow on top to melt, making a square of melted snow in the rest of un-melted snow, big give-away.

Good luck to you on this grow..
 

CrackerJax

New Member
I know a fellow who has done such a thing. he bought TWO sea land (used about 2500 each), Buried one (it only took 4 hours with a large rented backhoe (he chained and dragged the box into the hole). He then placed the second one right on top and then sealed the two together with epoxy. He torched a trap door through both units in the far back corner of the top unit, and installed two fans, one below and one above. The exhaust from the top unit was diverted down and out through the side of the top container near the floor and piped through the dirt to camo his heat loss. He wired it up and used the left over dirt to make a half hill all around the unit and then planted tall native grasses throughout. You couldn't see the thing from more than thirty feet away. he had a nursery so he kept a lot of his equipment in the top container. He kept a 10 foot straight ladder hanging on the wall of the top unit so in and out was quick and concealed.

Hope this helps.

P.S. don't forget to anchor the top one in regardless of the epoxy and dirt sides. better safe than sorry.

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It worked perfectly.
 

azuma

Active Member
Woah so many replies!
Im glad other people have thought this out as much as i have hahaha.
Thats interesting about the snow but im in western australia and it never snows here, so im safe there haha.
 

oahugrown

Active Member
i already had this same idea, just waiting to get $ to follow through. mine involved runing the exhaust from the room far away so the heat wont be anywhere near underground room. I am definetly going to weld some reinforcement bars on the walls and ceiling. It may also be a good idea to get a descolent piece of land(owning it would be best) to do it at, and run generators for the power. for the entrence, i would make it under a rock that slides and do the same for where the exhaust comes out....funny we all thought about this before.
 

thelastpirate

Well-Known Member
why would this use more electricity than a normal grow room of the same size? and this is obviously not for someone who is strapped for cash. A venting system could easily be disguised as a bush or something else and the rain would have no affect if it was properly sealed as it should be.
Some variations of this have already been done more than a few times, so it's definately do-able. I'd say one could get it done, and done well, for around 10K. You'd have to do it by yourself, and getting it level could be a long story, but definately doable. As has been pointed out, The biggest problem you'll face will be nosy assed neighbors. Back in the 70's you could have called it a survivalist fall out shelter. I guess storm/tornado shelter would work these days. Either way, once it was deep in the ground, about the ONLY way you could get caught would be that you told someone.

i gotta root cellar like this. its made of rocks instead. there is a building above it too. it never gets above 60 degrees and never freezes.
You put a couple of 1K lights in there and that will cure those 60 degree temps!! It surely wont ever freeze then!!!
 

CrackerJax

New Member
I don't know about that "anotherchance". Those darn things are built to be transported many many times. They are TOUGH and if you look at cargo ships, they stack one on top of another. I don't think a meter of dirt would be any problem at all.


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anotherchance

New Member
ya but the weight is born on the corners and not spread out across the surface. they hold over 50,000 lbs on the corners and much more but the rest of it i dont know about. it would be a bitch to find out too late that you where wrong. DOH
 

CrackerJax

New Member
LOL, maybe ur right, but if you look at them, they are strengthened all over. Besides, I don't think a meter of dirt weighs that much per sq.inch. The dirt's weight should be evenly spread out so no one spot is heavier than the next.

That being said, it wouldn't take much welding to beef up the center if one was that worried. I'll bet a simple phone call to Sealand would get you how many PSI's the container can handle. I'll bet it's a lot.


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