Very nice set-up there!
(someone there knows how to draw...the numbering is a dead giveaway)
(someone there knows how to draw...the numbering is a dead giveaway)
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Stealth Insulated Attic Build
- Thread starter Bender
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twowordz
K+ for finally updating the thread! 
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Agent-Smith
Member
I lovethe great utilization of space, keep up the good work!
jamrockjay
Member
Ur loft is looking how mine should lol
gr8 thread, keep up the good work
gr8 thread, keep up the good work
kansasgrown
Member
I've always loved well designed attic grows, and you are definitely making the most of your available space.
deltronZER0
Active member
well done guys, K+
whats the plan for those cmh?
whats the plan for those cmh?
Thanks for the praise. We've worked our hearts and pocketbooks till they bled.
Ventilation:
Can filter (next to A/C) > vented hoods > veg room
(RETURN CIRCUIT)
veg room > flower room > can fan intake to flower room
Idea being the veg room needs to be a little warmer so we harvest the heat from the lamps. CanFan resides in the flower room pulling air in from veg room. This keeps negative pressure in the veg room (and the door) and through the scrubber and over the lamps.. We also anticipate dialing the system in with the variac with the 'optimum balance between noise and function.'
We're brainstorming other creative ways to harvest the heat, but we've got seedling mats and 4 lamps and a 1500w heater.
Cheers again everybody, thanks for the support. Hope we can show off more completeness soon.
we want to have the flexibility of running cmh or hps in any bay. the purpose of having both; we'd like the room to be perpetual so we can use cmh for plants in early flower and hps for late flower. there's also quite a bit of splash that can be utilized in early flower.deltronZER0 said:
Gonna try and get our hands on some 1-1.5" HDF and build a cabinet for it. going to be at the end of the room where the muffler is right now, but in that whole bay. soon as work pays me we're getting one.thecarguy said:
Ventilation:
Can filter (next to A/C) > vented hoods > veg room
(RETURN CIRCUIT)
veg room > flower room > can fan intake to flower room
Idea being the veg room needs to be a little warmer so we harvest the heat from the lamps. CanFan resides in the flower room pulling air in from veg room. This keeps negative pressure in the veg room (and the door) and through the scrubber and over the lamps.. We also anticipate dialing the system in with the variac with the 'optimum balance between noise and function.'
We're brainstorming other creative ways to harvest the heat, but we've got seedling mats and 4 lamps and a 1500w heater.
Cheers again everybody, thanks for the support. Hope we can show off more completeness soon.
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Dr420CloneX
Fuckin excellent stealth setup. How is the airflow and humidity in there? N did you have to plastic up the wood? I had to in one setup because the wood was suckin up all the moisture in the air.
Dopeboy668
Member
This setup is just amazing. I love seeing well thought out, very neet grow rooms. Then on top all that its in the attic aka (The hardest place to control temps) lol. Just awsome!
Bender
Member
The entire room is wrapped and sealed in reflectix underneath the drywall.
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nekoloving
that, sir, is fucking pro! mad props to u and your partners, hopefully those will be some darn tootin tomatoes :>
Bionik Kronik
Member
So my attic is the same as yours and I want to finish out into a room. I have questions about construction, like are your trusses made from 2x4's and if so did you just place like 3/4" plywood across the celing joist or did you have to add additional support for load baring reasons? like 2x6's or 2x8's? And did you have to cut any of your trusses if they were in the way? All of mine are in the classic W shape except around my a/c. They are braced different to create a 6' wide by 5 1/2'-6' high square space or so and I would like to make the rest of my trusses look like that so I could just frame it up and insulate?
Bender
Member
Oh man you just earned my love forever. Thank you for sympathizing with me on that one. My partner has been a huge help and I couldn't have done it without him, but I will take credit for having to cut all those pieces out.
And Bionic.... Man I don't know what to say right now. I've been working 75+ hour weeks lately and every time I have a chance to sit down at the computer I'm completely wiped and don't have much energy to help you out with your project. All I can say is don't cut anything unless you know what you're doing and make sure you have an actual load-bearing wall underneath you. Our room happens to have a 2x6 wall directly underneath it. I talked at length with a civil engineer about our roof and learned just enough to know not to fuck with it. The biggest structural challenge with the typical attic grow is that a lot of ceilings are "floating ceilings". That means that the insterior walls underneath it aren't actually taking the weight of the roof above them. So by installing a floor and adding weight, you're really just adding more load to the truss in places it wasn't designed to hold weight (especially dynamic weight).
Also, for anyone who cares...... there should be a pretty big thread update in the near future. The room has gone through extensive upgrades since we last took pictures.
