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Indoor mmj in process
- Thread starter McKush
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That board marks where the future door will go from the FR to the Studio/Lung room.
I used some 7" lag bolts and washers to affix that board well. I don't like creaks and a ladder of some sort will eventually hang off of this to facilitate getting down to the ground floor
view in the VR looking down towards the sump area
part of the trap door area. using 7" long 1/2" dia lag bolts and washers to secure the joists to the cross member. I'll want to do this on both sides.
I'm prepping for the last of the insulation too
I used some 7" lag bolts and washers to affix that board well. I don't like creaks and a ladder of some sort will eventually hang off of this to facilitate getting down to the ground floor
view in the VR looking down towards the sump area
part of the trap door area. using 7" long 1/2" dia lag bolts and washers to secure the joists to the cross member. I'll want to do this on both sides.
I'm prepping for the last of the insulation too
Got a large part of the floor done and topped with reflectix and tapped up taught.. The trapazoid is another trap door located right above the sump so I can always get to the plumbing and ease of pump maintenance. Normally this trap door will just be screwed down tightly and only opened for maint activities.
I had the most unusual thing happen to me while I was prepping the floor. You've heard me talk about the Black Octopus haven't you? Yes dear reader, had you read closely you would already know what is coming up. I still can't believe I witnessed this.... Yet I have PROOF! Yes, it is true!!! I not only saw the following happen with my own eyes....
I took pictures while it happened! What follows is the truth. I swear on my name His Ballerness McKush that what you see in the pictures that follow actually happened.
I still can scarecely take it in, but witness! I have proof. Read on dear, er, reader, read on.....
Journal
February xx, 2014
While installing the Firestone EPDM rubber liner strips I was taken by the most ghastly sight. Before me the large pile of rubber strips, long forsaken out in the cold and only now brought into the Studio to warm - Reanimated!! Yes, at first I thought it was the smokey bong hit I hat just done had blurred my vision but I saw the large warming mass of rubber move. I actually saw it move again. Barely able to breath I grabbed my camera, exhaled, and started snapping.
No, nothing. I was wrong. Hehe just too much medicine I guess.
Wait.
OMG it IS MOVING ON ITS OWN... what is this?
It moves. Yes!
uhh, huh? wait a minute... Me no likey. Me no LIKEY at all...
I took pictures while it happened! What follows is the truth. I swear on my name His Ballerness McKush that what you see in the pictures that follow actually happened.
I still can scarecely take it in, but witness! I have proof. Read on dear, er, reader, read on.....
Journal
February xx, 2014
While installing the Firestone EPDM rubber liner strips I was taken by the most ghastly sight. Before me the large pile of rubber strips, long forsaken out in the cold and only now brought into the Studio to warm - Reanimated!! Yes, at first I thought it was the smokey bong hit I hat just done had blurred my vision but I saw the large warming mass of rubber move. I actually saw it move again. Barely able to breath I grabbed my camera, exhaled, and started snapping.
No, nothing. I was wrong. Hehe just too much medicine I guess.
Wait.
OMG it IS MOVING ON ITS OWN... what is this?
It moves. Yes!
uhh, huh? wait a minute... Me no likey. Me no LIKEY at all...
As I watched, stunned, it seemed to know what it wanted to do...
What is going on. What is this?
ah - oh boy.....
I realized at last what was going on. The Black Octopus was NOT in the mood for taming tonight. Realizing I was about to die a horrible, agonizing, death by strangulation I sprung into action.
With my left hand I grabbed the nearest power tool (luckily it was still plugged in) and I attacked.
Best Defense is a Good Offense.
Not having the advantage of surprise you can imagine what the ensuing struggle was like. I was engulfed in those cold rubbery tentacles as I fought to attack back. In an instant it KNEW I was taking pictures and it swiped my camera away. Dashing it to the FR floor. Luckily I caught it with my foot just before it was about to shatter (for certain, as the force was unimaginably high. No camera would have survived except for the save by the deftness of my feet and the surety of my Vans (thanks Vans btw I'm open for sponsorship too.) )
I don't have anymore pictures after this. The fight was long, bloody (mostly my own), and I nearly wept tears of joy and victory when I triumphed!
Well, i had power tools after all. it was just rubber. Kinda slow. Not too terribly smart really. I watched it move the whole time. You going to hit someone with a hammer, I'd expect a little more effort outta you. I'm just saying.
Anyway, the walls of the studio will surely be blazoned with a tapestry or painting or something of this great battle and victory against all odds. I'm sure I will inspire me for a very long time.
What is going on. What is this?
ah - oh boy.....
I realized at last what was going on. The Black Octopus was NOT in the mood for taming tonight. Realizing I was about to die a horrible, agonizing, death by strangulation I sprung into action.
With my left hand I grabbed the nearest power tool (luckily it was still plugged in) and I attacked.
Best Defense is a Good Offense.
Not having the advantage of surprise you can imagine what the ensuing struggle was like. I was engulfed in those cold rubbery tentacles as I fought to attack back. In an instant it KNEW I was taking pictures and it swiped my camera away. Dashing it to the FR floor. Luckily I caught it with my foot just before it was about to shatter (for certain, as the force was unimaginably high. No camera would have survived except for the save by the deftness of my feet and the surety of my Vans (thanks Vans btw I'm open for sponsorship too.) )
I don't have anymore pictures after this. The fight was long, bloody (mostly my own), and I nearly wept tears of joy and victory when I triumphed!
Well, i had power tools after all. it was just rubber. Kinda slow. Not too terribly smart really. I watched it move the whole time. You going to hit someone with a hammer, I'd expect a little more effort outta you. I'm just saying.
Anyway, the walls of the studio will surely be blazoned with a tapestry or painting or something of this great battle and victory against all odds. I'm sure I will inspire me for a very long time.
Oh lawd, you have a lot of time on your hands...
Wow, having to fight off the Black Octopus just to work on your room hasn't slowed you down. Glad that you prevailed.
How much longer do you think you have to go? I'm looking forward to seeing this space in action.
How much longer do you think you have to go? I'm looking forward to seeing this space in action.
" You going to hit someone with a hammer, I'd expect a little more effort outta you. I'm just saying.", God damn that was some of the funniest shit I have read in awhile!!!!!!!! Sounds like convo's me and my buddies have while tripping on shrooms!!! Classic, thanks man!!
Pics soon my brothers. McKush's evil twin has had to be one mf'g capitalist for the past several weeks and work his arse off on his other gig.. Work. I'm at it when I can steal the time to. Down to my last 3 sheets of plywood from a stack of 20 or 25... Need 15 sheets of ply then I can lay sheet rock and mud. Still no decision re tiling... I don't think I can handle the tile job this year tho. Too expensive...
I need to order fans now. I'm considering the silenced q max but not sure on 10" or 12". FR is about 450 to 500 cuft. Lung room is smaller about 450 cuft.
10" model moves about 1000 CFM so it is on the edge but is my current lead. I want as much air as is possible with the least amount of noise and energy use
I need to order fans now. I'm considering the silenced q max but not sure on 10" or 12". FR is about 450 to 500 cuft. Lung room is smaller about 450 cuft.
10" model moves about 1000 CFM so it is on the edge but is my current lead. I want as much air as is possible with the least amount of noise and energy use
Tile? Oh lawd. Paint that shit with low VOC flat white paint and pop beans fool. That's what I finally had to do to make me get my ass in gear. Shoot first, ask questions later.
Yeah Bud, I may just do that for a first run then finish in the fall with the tile job. The room is 5.5x9x10'h or 8'h depending on where in the FR you happen to be standing. Its a load of tile work - and - I want to do the ceiling too... I'll never even get a green shoot started this spring if I don't let go of the tile.. The budget strains too...
I am on the fence about fan's though. I reckon a push pull set up with the q max 10" would be about ideal though. Those run about 325-375 a pop but they have the silencer/muffler built in so they save a good deal of space and reputedly very quite. i was looking at 12" fans but I think the flow rate is way too high even when run at a lower RPM.
the q max 10" will do about 1000 CFMs unloaded. I'm thinking of pulling thru two carbon filters and tehn pushing it back in with another q max 10" sucking thru a hepa filter in the lung room.
in April or May I'll have to install the minisplit once I decide on model & size.
I'll post some recent pics today if I can. I'm much farther along than my build pictures show. But still slogging it out whenever i can steal away.
Hey Who Dat, I hear you. I really enjoy building and designing though... hehe actually its catching up with me. I'm getting old and carrying the 4x8's out in the cold snowy dark down a hill has fucked my hands up some. arthritis or old age and years of use, my fingers are stiff in the mornings. little of the green poultice smoke clears that up though.
I'm thinking of going panda per Buddler and doing a summer run and then finish the tile in the fall for the next run. I can take things I learn from the first run back into revision at that time and make any mods I need to make before finalizing this thing.
I'm liking what I have though. Will be more than sufficient for my needs and I'll have a near lab like CEA to play with. I'm sealing every dimple, crack, any possible air leak that would let sound in or out.
