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underground growin
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wow cheers coldcanna but no i had nothing but a shovel ,spade an a mini jack hammer to get through the last 2ft of bed rock m8 an even if i had wanted to use a mini digger it want possible because its under my garage and i put the growroom there long after i built the garage so i couldnt get a digger in if id wanted m8y an thanks again for the kind words fella
Way to go Leepy! I grow under my living room, in a 8x6x7' high cab. I dug the hole 3' deep, and thought I was a hero. You are one step crazier than me, and I am impressed!
It's a good feeling to be sitting on the couch, knowing that directly below my coffee table, is a crop of gorgeous buds, happily growing away in the crawlspace!
Regards.
It's a good feeling to be sitting on the couch, knowing that directly below my coffee table, is a crop of gorgeous buds, happily growing away in the crawlspace!
Regards.
mucka i thought of doing the very same thing but wen i took a few boards up to have a look. It wasnt possible there were too many block walls id have to move in order to make a room big enough not only that the wife want best pleased about the idea of me diggin a fucking grate hole in her living room lol love to see a pic of your room if poss pal
Lemme see what I can do, Leepy. Last time I meant to post some pictures, I noticed several of the floor joists under my house had the builder's name, and my address written on them! It's nice to know I got the right joists, when they built my house, but I think I will tape over them before I post pics, LOL. I'll get back to ya in a couple days on that.
Honestly, it looks like an abortion from the outside. I built a wooden box, and insulated the outside, to save more room inside. Kinda looks like a Christmas present, wrapped in an old blanket, with tubes coming out, but I've been running it nonstop for four years.
Started with a 600, then added a 250, then two 600's, then added a 400... Now running 2400w.
Funny how the hobby is more addicting than what we grow!
There are a few pics inside the room in my profile, but I will work on getting more up ASAP. I worked too damn hard building it, not to show it off, and I can't think of a safer place than here!
Regards
Honestly, it looks like an abortion from the outside. I built a wooden box, and insulated the outside, to save more room inside. Kinda looks like a Christmas present, wrapped in an old blanket, with tubes coming out, but I've been running it nonstop for four years.
Started with a 600, then added a 250, then two 600's, then added a 400... Now running 2400w.
Funny how the hobby is more addicting than what we grow!
There are a few pics inside the room in my profile, but I will work on getting more up ASAP. I worked too damn hard building it, not to show it off, and I can't think of a safer place than here!
Regards
Nice to see the bunker in action.
Regarding you being busted but them only finding the veg cab, When I 1st started growing, I was teamed up with a pillock who it turned out couldn't keep his gob shut. He'd been showing off in the pub, blabbing and giving weed away. Anyway, one night the local tie up gang came, robbed him of his money and his stash, they even kicked the coin box off the back of his PAYG telly. They didn't find the grow, and when the plod came to untie him (after 16 hours of shouting for help-serves him right for not keeping schtum ) they didn't either. The entrance to the cellar was outside, and the wheelie bins were in front of the steps. Thick fuckers--and we are thankful that they are.
Regarding you being busted but them only finding the veg cab, When I 1st started growing, I was teamed up with a pillock who it turned out couldn't keep his gob shut. He'd been showing off in the pub, blabbing and giving weed away. Anyway, one night the local tie up gang came, robbed him of his money and his stash, they even kicked the coin box off the back of his PAYG telly. They didn't find the grow, and when the plod came to untie him (after 16 hours of shouting for help-serves him right for not keeping schtum ) they didn't either. The entrance to the cellar was outside, and the wheelie bins were in front of the steps. Thick fuckers--and we are thankful that they are.
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Leepy. Took some serious work to pull that off 
down side to having a completey stealth room is wen owt gose wrong its a major hassle tryin to sort it out lol my extractor fan has fucking packed in so needs replacing ....why is that a hassle you may ask .....well there located under my fucking garage floor so iv to bust up an dig about 6in of reinforced concrete to get to it then replace the fan and redo the concrete so it looks the same as the rest 
hey there m8y any joy on those pics bud id love to see ya room mucka
Kids are going away for the weekend, Leepy. Gonna get some shots in the next couple days, and post em up. (Yeah, two teenagers at home, snee-heee-kee!)
I Had a GFI trip last week, and my extraction fan crapped out for 20 minutes, before I noticed it. The house reeked like weed, and the kids were home. We blamed it on the neighbors, that live in a rental. Laughing, telling them they were smoking weed on their patio. Sweat pouring off, I found the culprit that was tripping the GFI, quickly reset, and all was well.
I do not have to bust up concrete, though. Damn, you are a dedicated nut!
Regards.
I Had a GFI trip last week, and my extraction fan crapped out for 20 minutes, before I noticed it. The house reeked like weed, and the kids were home. We blamed it on the neighbors, that live in a rental. Laughing, telling them they were smoking weed on their patio. Sweat pouring off, I found the culprit that was tripping the GFI, quickly reset, and all was well.
I do not have to bust up concrete, though. Damn, you are a dedicated nut!
Regards.
dedicated eh ,,dickhead more like m8 i mean what sort of idiot concretes over 2xfans an dosnt make an access panel incase something gose wrong like the berrings burning out on the extractor fan lol
I love stuff like this. Really impressive leepy.
I hope you don't mind if I ask a few questions?
Once you had dug the hole and dropped the box in, how did you go about reflooring the garage above the room? Is the floor actually the concrete lid of the box?
Did you use any supports to brace the soil walls before dropping your box in?
Can you give more info on the gas proof membrane and how it works?
The thing I'm most parra about underground rooms is the risk of flooding or the walls collapsing.
The fact it survived a bust goes to show how ingenious an idea it is!
Peace
I hope you don't mind if I ask a few questions?
Once you had dug the hole and dropped the box in, how did you go about reflooring the garage above the room? Is the floor actually the concrete lid of the box?
Did you use any supports to brace the soil walls before dropping your box in?
Can you give more info on the gas proof membrane and how it works?
The thing I'm most parra about underground rooms is the risk of flooding or the walls collapsing.
The fact it survived a bust goes to show how ingenious an idea it is!
Peace
Hey Leepy!
No thread-jacking here, I just wanted to follow up with some pics of my setup. Sadly, after 4 years, I believe it has seen it's last run. My asspilot neighbor, who's lot sits above mine, is trying to turn his yard into a freakin' rain forest. Keep in mind, I live in the high desert, surrounded by sagebrush, and rattlesnakes. All this water he uses, migrates down, and has now moistened my crawl space to the point I have mold. Motherfucker!
I can't even pursue insurance action against him, if this room still exists. (Imagine the insurance adjuster sticking his head down here with a flashlight... "Excuse me sir, what building code allows this kind of "Storage" room?" Yeah, not gonna happen!)
Soo, that said, here's the story.
My back is fucked. I have had severe back pain, since my early 30's, and was diagnosed with degenerative arthritis, and bone spurs on my spine. I hate opiates with a passion, having lost 2 friends over the years to them.
I got my medical card, and built this room in the spring of 2009, because I found that vaping weed, which I hadn't done in almost 15 years, really helped my back.
Ironic, the guy with the bad back, is under his house, building shit like this! The funny part is, reasonable physical labor helps my pain level, while sitting or standing, can seriously put the hurt on me in 20 minutes.
My crawlspace is 4 feet deep, and I knew I needed more than that. So, I started digging, and wound up with a 9x7x4' deep hole, and a big pile of dirt, on the the other side of my crawlspace.
The room was built entirely of 2' wide x 8 long sections of OSB (Chipboard) sheets, ripped on my table saw, and pre-assembled in my garage, then wrestled down my entrance, and assembled in place. It's finshed, inside dimension, is 8'long, 6'wide, and 7.5' tall.
This is the only good side to being Bipolar. I can move mountains on the upswing!
Heat and A/C are supplied by the house HVAC system. I diverted one 6" vent from the trunkline, and added another 4".
A third, passive 6" intake draws air from a phony heat vent behind my couch.
Water must be pumped out through a garden hose, and into the sewer line, just outside.
Water is supplied by a "T" Sharkbite connector on a overhead house waterline. I ran a chlorine/sediment filter, and have tap water that is <100ppm
Air filtration is two stage. A CAN75 knock off is in the room, which is drawn out through two walls, to a plenum box in my garage, where I have a CAN100 knock off, with a Vortex 8" 747 running full power. That vents up, and into the cold air return of my HVAC. Negative pressure is guaranteed, and the room always runs 10 degrees F above the temp in my home, winter or summer.
Makes temp control pretty easy, most of the time.
It's been a good room, despite the nightmare of using it, day to day. It's entrance is in a locked closet, and for 4 years, we have kept it secret from everyone, including our kids. Many, many, many secret trips downstairs, to water when in soil, or PH a res in hydro.
I still think you have me beat. That you went down through a concrete slab, is unreal to me. This room I built, took all I had, on a manic high point of my life. I look at it now, and think "Fuck, really?"
Keep it up man, that setup is awesome! (OK, maybe mount your exhaust blower in one of the cabinets, somehow, then it will be perfect!!!)
Best regards!
No thread-jacking here, I just wanted to follow up with some pics of my setup. Sadly, after 4 years, I believe it has seen it's last run. My asspilot neighbor, who's lot sits above mine, is trying to turn his yard into a freakin' rain forest. Keep in mind, I live in the high desert, surrounded by sagebrush, and rattlesnakes. All this water he uses, migrates down, and has now moistened my crawl space to the point I have mold. Motherfucker!
I can't even pursue insurance action against him, if this room still exists. (Imagine the insurance adjuster sticking his head down here with a flashlight... "Excuse me sir, what building code allows this kind of "Storage" room?" Yeah, not gonna happen!)
Soo, that said, here's the story.
My back is fucked. I have had severe back pain, since my early 30's, and was diagnosed with degenerative arthritis, and bone spurs on my spine. I hate opiates with a passion, having lost 2 friends over the years to them.
I got my medical card, and built this room in the spring of 2009, because I found that vaping weed, which I hadn't done in almost 15 years, really helped my back.
Ironic, the guy with the bad back, is under his house, building shit like this! The funny part is, reasonable physical labor helps my pain level, while sitting or standing, can seriously put the hurt on me in 20 minutes.
My crawlspace is 4 feet deep, and I knew I needed more than that. So, I started digging, and wound up with a 9x7x4' deep hole, and a big pile of dirt, on the the other side of my crawlspace.
The room was built entirely of 2' wide x 8 long sections of OSB (Chipboard) sheets, ripped on my table saw, and pre-assembled in my garage, then wrestled down my entrance, and assembled in place. It's finshed, inside dimension, is 8'long, 6'wide, and 7.5' tall.
This is the only good side to being Bipolar. I can move mountains on the upswing!
Heat and A/C are supplied by the house HVAC system. I diverted one 6" vent from the trunkline, and added another 4".
A third, passive 6" intake draws air from a phony heat vent behind my couch.
Water must be pumped out through a garden hose, and into the sewer line, just outside.
Water is supplied by a "T" Sharkbite connector on a overhead house waterline. I ran a chlorine/sediment filter, and have tap water that is <100ppm
Air filtration is two stage. A CAN75 knock off is in the room, which is drawn out through two walls, to a plenum box in my garage, where I have a CAN100 knock off, with a Vortex 8" 747 running full power. That vents up, and into the cold air return of my HVAC. Negative pressure is guaranteed, and the room always runs 10 degrees F above the temp in my home, winter or summer.
Makes temp control pretty easy, most of the time.
It's been a good room, despite the nightmare of using it, day to day. It's entrance is in a locked closet, and for 4 years, we have kept it secret from everyone, including our kids. Many, many, many secret trips downstairs, to water when in soil, or PH a res in hydro.
I still think you have me beat. That you went down through a concrete slab, is unreal to me. This room I built, took all I had, on a manic high point of my life. I look at it now, and think "Fuck, really?"
Keep it up man, that setup is awesome! (OK, maybe mount your exhaust blower in one of the cabinets, somehow, then it will be perfect!!!)
Best regards!
mucka thanks for your pics m8 that is a bad ass growroom pal 10/10 m8 and it seems a real shame that you have to shut it down have you thought about taking it down an damp proofin the lower half you'v already done the hard graft diggin it out seem a waste to close your room m8yydijadoit i started diggin the 9x8x8 ft hole 7days b4 i was due to get married ill be 100% honest with ya it was to take my mind off the big day lmao an i know it may seem an sound alot of hard work its not cos im used to diggin every day at work i also used to go fox diggin a lot so i really dont mind diggin at all infact the whole build took me about 80hrs in total to build what with workin 6days a wk and gettin married i only had a cople of hours on an evening to do it.
it took me longer to dig the last 2ft than the rest of the hole i had to bring a jackhammer home to get though the bedrock lol
it took me longer to dig the last 2ft than the rest of the hole i had to bring a jackhammer home to get though the bedrock lol
