concrete basement grow room wall design

angel4us

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• Dec 23, 2011

• #1

hey all starting legal grow op in michigan and have full basement with 9 foot walls. my goal is sealed rooms with split ac . two rooms -flower and veg/clone /mom.
Should i frame walls of lumber and insulate and seal in plastic??? and would i want to insulate outer concrete walls???

OR should i just use cinder block and have bricklayers lay block, very cheap and fast, and then use white epoxy pool paint??????
any ideas or past experince in basement grows please ring in peace

 

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ronbo51

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• Dec 23, 2011

• #2

Don't use block. Way too much. I like foil faced foam insulation, especially on the outside walls. You can glue it directly or tapcon a wood strip or two to hold it up. For inside walls you should just tapcon a plate into the floor and conventionally frame and insulate and wire. Beats the shit out of hauling and laying block. There is a product available at Lowes/HD called fiberglass reinforced plastic. It is the ultimate wall product. USDA approved for food production areas. It comes in sheets and is washable, you can spray it with bleach. Bit pricey but performs top notch Good luck.

 

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Hydrolized

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• Dec 24, 2011

• #3

I have always stuck with good old lumber and drywall, with vapor barrier and insulation. Super quiet, if you use green board and moisture/mold resistance flat white paint you have a pretty good, durable reflective surface. Can't beat it for wiring and installing things into the wall if needed also.

 

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Ichabod Crane

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• Dec 25, 2011

• #4

Frame it in with 2X4 and line it with OSB. Menard's has OSB covered on one side with foil. It is about $10 a sheet. This will allow you to screw anything anywhere. Seal the corners and edges with furnase tape so that moisture does not get to the sheet edges.

For the door use black plastic and use Velcro, or a zipper from the hydro store.

 

GP73LPC

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• Dec 26, 2011

• #5

Hydrolized said:

I have always stuck with good old lumber and drywall, with vapor barrier and insulation. Super quiet, if you use green board and moisture/mold resistance flat white paint you have a pretty good, durable reflective surface. Can't beat it for wiring and installing things into the wall if needed also.

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what is the vapor barrier for?

and are you speaking of the plastic houses get wrapped in before siding or bricks go on?

 

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187020

• Dec 26, 2011

• #6

Someday I might get around to decorating...

Someday I might get around to decorating...

Still haven't decided... Fuck it !! Peace homies

 

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Ichabod Crane

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• Dec 26, 2011

• #7

Craven that is like my veg room.

 

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187020

• Dec 26, 2011

• #8

Right on homie 1000w hortilux hps and 8in vortex is pullin 40oz of sour ... Good enough for now!! Peace

 

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Ichabod Crane

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• Dec 26, 2011

• #9

My veg room. The light has been pulled up.

 

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nukklehead

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• Dec 26, 2011

• #10

ronbo51 said:

Don't use block. Way too much. I like foil faced foam insulation, especially on the outside walls. You can glue it directly or tapcon a wood strip or two to hold it up. For inside walls you should just tapcon a plate into the floor and conventionally frame and insulate and wire. Beats the shit out of hauling and laying block. There is a product available at Lowes/HD called fiberglass reinforced plastic. It is the ultimate wall product. USDA approved for food production areas. It comes in sheets and is washable, you can spray it with bleach. Bit pricey but performs top notch Good luck.

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... xcept if you already have a coal room ( WTF is that??)
Kind of like PL lighting.. if you dont know... you dont know..
I run the above... buddy runs the coal room..... life is good

 

zeke99

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• Dec 28, 2011

• #11

Cravenmore said:

Still haven't decided... Fuck it !! Peace homies

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where does that carbon filter exhaust out too, you have a dryer vent or something?

 

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Ichabod Crane

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• Dec 28, 2011

• #12

I had a cold air intake on my furnace return line. I capped that and use the intake as my exhaust. How many times do you open the door on your house every day. I sure don't need to suck cold air in from outside every time my furnace turns on. Which for me is less than the front door gets opened.

 

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Veggia farmer

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• Apr 7, 2020

• #13

Im in a situation like this.

Condensation as the tropics her right now.. singing in the rain kinda style.. built a flower room, can have temps at 18 c at the walls, around in the room 18-20c and middle of 25 c around the canopy.. 75-86 RH..

They grow fine, but I dont want rain on the equipment and floors..

Have not isolated the concrete walls yet. and ceiling.. those too! the other rooms over the basement gets cold in the winter.. cold, maybe even a little freezing..

Thinking about: 2x4 frame, styrofoam, vapor barrier plastic, OSB, paint or other reflectic surface..

Maybe another flower room in there, atleast a mom/cutting/vegg room (another location at the moment) AND a would love a room for other stuff/tools/work place/ tent for drying..