Best way to split a room and maintain environment?

[CodyPomeray]

Looking to split a 18ft room in half this winter so I can run 12/12 perpetually and keep the area warmer than not. What is a good way to run air between the rooms and to regulate temps/humidity. Run each room seperate, or use a lung room and pump air in as needed to both.

Seems a little complicated or maybe I am overdoing it.

 

[troutman]

Maybe build a wall using 2 X 3 or 2 X 4 lumber spaced about 12 to 16 inches apart as the frame.
Then cover it with some light proof material. It's what I would do if I owned the place. A duct fan
placed at the top of the wall could connect both rooms with good air circulation. Just place a vent
at the bottom also to facilitate air movement between the two. The duct fan would remove the hot
air while the passive vent would bring in cooler air from the lung room.

 

[CodyPomeray]

Maybe build a wall using 2 X 3 or 2 X 4 lumber spaced about 12 to 16 inches apart as the frame.
Then cover it with some light proof material. It's what I would do if I owned the place.

Done and done good sir I am no carpenter, but its there. I guess now the question is, how can I use the heat from 1 room while its on, to help warm the other. Or, how can I maintain say the same humidity across both rooms properly.

I have used lung rooms in the past but it wasnt for a dual room setup, so its a little confusing for me.

Thinking I "could" cut a hole in the new wall i put up, throw an inline with a scrubber on that, and have a Y valve sucking in from the other room, so both are getting scrubbed. Unsure really what is best, never done this before.

 

[troutman]

Take your time to figure it out. It will come to you. It's not too complicated.

 

[CodyPomeray]

Either you edited that post above or I am losing it, both are fully possible simultaneously. I really like your idea there and will start sketching some stuff out, thanks.

 

[troutman]

Either you edited that post above or I am losing it, both are fully possible simultaneously.

I used magic.

 

[AgentPothead]

I could have swore there was a multipage thread about lung rooms, but now I cannot find it.

 

[Love&Peace]

I am currently in the planning stages of my grow room and have been trying to find a good way to allow passive flow between rooms. You has mentioned it's 18 feet... is that 18x18' or smaller?

I would say with a room that size it may be in your best interest to run both rooms seperately. I have a much smaller size, splitting a 11x11 and want to run the veg room smaller but also don't want to put the extra infrastructure into both veg and flower and would rather share the air.

My plan(used the similar idea but used a different passive intake which lead to some light leaks) is to have the flower room host the environmental controller, extraxtion fan.

I will frame the wall in between with multiple openings that I can block/open as I see fit. Essentially the plan is to put the first rooms drywall on, create baffles to deflect light, while keeping turbulence down, and have the air be passively pulled between the two rooms. Once finished, apply the next rooms drywall and it should create a light proof passive air exchange or so I hope lol. This can be done in as many wall cavities as you want my plan is to do more than I need, and block off the more or less depending on air flow requirements.

I sketched up a prototype to give you an idea of what I plan to do...I do think if your room is large enough you could and should try to have both rooms run separate of one another but if you want to share the rooms and try to cut down on initial start up costs then pulling passive air through the Veg room into flower room or vice versa could be a good alternative.

Keep us posted as you work on it as I'm interested in seeing what you come up with and how it works for you!

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