City Apt. Inspection - Questions

[funkervogt]

Looks like my apartment building is doing a city inspection in a few days. I have a 2br apartment and grow in a spare room closet, the room is locked with a lock I installed. The plants are almost done with flowering @ 66 days

I checked the city inspection list, and they have nothing about closets, but do have various things about doors and windows. Im pretty sure they just want to check the smoke detectors/pipes, but I have a few options and want to stay safe:

- Keep the lock on the spare bedroom door and clean up the room. If they ask about the lock, tell them its for renter's insurance reasons.

- Remove the lock from the door, tear down the grow closet, put plants in plastic buckets (some are very big) and hope for the best. This might be ideal given my situation.

- Leave everything up in the grow closet and keep the door lock. Inspectors will either ignore it, or ask for me to open it at a later time when Im home. This may raise suspicion, so I dunno...

Any thoughts? Again, this is in a closet in a spare room. The city inspections say nothing about closets, just windows and doors.

 

[Che]

Can you conceal everything within the closet? The inspector will not look in the closet, probably won't even look in the room - but it should be accessible.

If you have a door on the closet, close and lock that, and make sure odor removal is in place and working, and tell tale sounds smells and light leaks are undetectable. The rest of the room should appear clean and normal with nothing useful for growing around to raise suspicion.

If the closet does not have a door, you have 48 hours to find one, or tear down.

Unless I've missed something, I believe these are your options. You mentioned that you're almost done... would it be imprudent to harvest now, conceal it for the inspection, then go into damage control afterwards?

 

[funkervogt]

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I have the closet timed so it ONLY runs at night. During the day nothing is on, it is night time for the ladies, no sounds or lights or anything.

I reeeeeeallly don't want to harvest just yet. They seem to have a few more weeks to go. In addition, I think harvesting would bring more smell than non-harvested! I can always throw the live plants in a few boxes/rubbermaids for a few hours. They'll just have to hold their breath, but I'd like to avoid that if possible.

 

[PrimoVG]

lock the closet door...

if he asks, say you left the key at the office...i doubt he'll ask, he isn't there to find out what you have in your closet, he's there to inspect the building's integrity...

lock it

 

[funkervogt]

The closet itself is one of those vanity jobs. The room itself is lockable, though.

 

[catman]

No sound? How can there be no sound? Unless of course you have no ventilation and in which case, you won't be able to control odor.

There is a smoke detector in the room, correct? They better be able to at least check that.

Don't cut any corners, you know what the safest thing to do is, so do it :]

 

[funkervogt]

There's no smoke detector in the room, just a window and too closets. I cannot lock the closet, unfortunately, as it is vanity. My system will not be running during this time. When I enter the room with the system off there is no smell.

 

[greenisgold]

If they are going to inspect windows then they will want to see that room. Tough call. I had an insepction and I took the entire grow down, placed all the plants in wardrobe bozes, put on my deck and put a tarp over them. Worked like a charm.

 

[centralcoastbud]

There's no smoke detector in the room, just a window and too closets. I cannot lock the closet, unfortunately, as it is vanity. My system will not be running during this time. When I enter the room with the system off there is no smell.

Remember that a lot of times "no smell" to you (someone who has been conditioned to the smell) does not translate to "no smell" to somebody else. I know more than one person that has sworn they don't have a smell issue simply because it no longer stands out to them as much as it used to.

 

[funkervogt]

Remember that a lot of times "no smell" to you (someone who has been conditioned to the smell) does not translate to "no smell" to somebody else. I know more than one person that has sworn they don't have a smell issue simply because it no longer stands out to them as much as it used to.

Hmm... you might be right on the smell thing.

If they are going to inspect windows then they will want to see that room. Tough call. I had an insepction and I took the entire grow down, placed all the plants in wardrobe bozes, put on my deck and put a tarp over them. Worked like a charm.

While I don't have a deck, this may very well work in my car. I have boxes that I think should fit most of my plants that I could stash in there, throw a blanket over them to keep them warm.

 

[stihgnobevoli]

i live in a city and in an apt, and just had an inspection recently. if its from the city then its prolly a safety inspection. they will check just about everything. closets too. to make sure you dont have a bunch of piled up shit in there, that's a fire hazard. my suggestion is tear it down, if its almost done anyway just chop it.

 

[habeeb]

Remember that a lot of times "no smell" to you (someone who has been conditioned to the smell) does not translate to "no smell" to somebody else. I know more than one person that has sworn they don't have a smell issue simply because it no longer stands out to them as much as it used to.

yeah closet is not 100 % odor proof. even if you had a carbon scrubber in there the scrubber will blow air out blowing air out the crack of the doors.

not safe my friend, not safe. if they go in your room they will smell it. you cannot hide flowering cannabis smell without a "grow room " that is sealed with 1 to 2 scrubbers

 

[funkervogt]

Alright, so the new plan is:

-Tear down the grow room, hide equipment, fold black plastic
-Put plants in boxes, place in back of car
-Put something in closet to see if they entered. If there are signs that they entered, chop the grow

EDIT: Reason I don't want to cut. Bagseed sativa that could very well be badass smokeatude.

 

[funkervogt]

Okay, new plan. Looks like I'll be getting garbage bins to store the taller ladies. Im going to chop one or two of the more mature plants, keep the others going.

 

[~fvk~]

Seems like you got your wits about you. Good luck yo...

 

[GeneticHeirloom]

It's a shame you won't be home during the inspection *unless I read wrong* because if he did ask you about the closet you could make up some bullshit about needing extra security for your collection, and if he asks what say Stamp or coin given to you by your grandfather, everyones got one, yours is just worth locking the door for. You also set yourself up for "Why don't you have a safe?" which gives you the in for this gem "Oh it's in there, it's not fun to move either but I'm making sure no one gets any wise ideas." If he starts trying to make you open it, just refuse temporarily "To move my safe so you don't know what make and model it is, it's nothing personal, but better to be safe than sorry"

Than let him know that anytime this week you're available to have the city inspect the closet.

 

[funkervogt]

I won't be home for it, unfortunately. I thought about that, too, but can't be at home.

I think the best option is the car option. Yes, there will be some bending and pushing and unpleasantness for the plants, but worst come to worst I've got to do an early chop as opposed to prison.

 

[funkervogt]

They won't fit in the car

I decided last night that the best thing to do, considering their age and how I need to start another grow soon, is to chop. I've had these things for too long with too much headache and time spent to have to tear down my growsite, move all the plants, hide the equipment, come back the next day, move everything back and rebuild the fucking closet. It would take an entire day with likely very stressed plants and a burnt out me. The time has come to chop.

Thanks everyone!

 

[stihgnobevoli]

plants arent really that easily stressed. but its too late.

 

[antimatter]

Smart move, inspectors and landlords can be assholes and chances are they know all about grows in there units probably one of the reasons they check.