[BudGood2006]

Hello all After much reading, I have decided to construct a Bio-Bucket setup (8 buckets). That will be another thread. This one deals with the construction of the grow room itself. The dimensions and specs of the room are as follows:

5' length, 8' width, actual grow area 4'x8' with 2-600 watt HPS lights hanging above, 6" air-cooled Cool Sun and 6" Cool Tube reflectors. Each plant will have a 2'x2' area, leaving me with a foot on the edge for access. A carbon filter will be attached to the intake of the first reflector, and the Can-Fan will be in the veg room, teed off to provide a exhaust for the other flowering room. If I use my CO2 generator, I'll need to attach a motorized damper before the Can-fan, after the room, to allow me to turn off the exhaust to that room during CO2 enrichment. The intake will be mostly passive, coming in under the Bio-Bucket table from the veg room, through furnace filters, aided by powerful fans under the table and mounted to the wall. The res will be in the veg room, right by the passive intake for the Bio-Room.


This room is part of a 5'x20' area that I am going to "hide". I will use another 6' of the 20' room on the other side for a soil grow (using the complete 5'x6' area stuffed with 3 or 5 gallon soil buckets), and use the remaining 6 or so feet in the center for a veg/res/equipment room. Anyway, here is some pics of the construction:


Here is the Bio-Bucket room itself. I framed it in, resurfaced the concrete (it was spalling and turning into dust), and laid a chunk of vinyl flooring down, to make cleanup nice and easy.




Here is a view of the entire hidden area's framing.




Here is the interior of the room after insulating and laying some plastic (6 mil) on the framing. I used black on the walls for light-proofing, and clear on the ceiling so I could see the joists to properly attach lights and etc. The white reflective is white tileboard from Home Depot, cheap, durable, easy to clean, and BRIGHT! Also, I'm beginning to frame the table for the buckets in this pic.




A pic of the insulation (use plastic-covered batts if you can find them, a LOT less itchy)




A pic of the tables framing progressing. I added legs and many cross-braces after this pic, forgot to photograph it before I put the plywood down, oops




A pic of the table and also of the sides of the grow area done in tile board.




Another pic from the inside of the room.




And yet another pic of the room, with a piece of 3" PVC in the center of the table for reference (it'll be my drain for the buckets)




Well, thats all for now folks. I'll update this thread with more pics of construction as it progresses.

[The Dopest]

lookin sweet as hell, wishin i wasnt rentin more and more every day!

[mushupork5]

looks awesome, im excited to see more progress

[Budweiser13]

"tagged" looks good thanks for posting pictures..........

keep 'em coming. i wish i knew about plastic covered insulation!

[NPK]

Yeah, that plastic-covered insulation looks great. I always wear long sleeves and latex gloves when working with regular fiberglass because the itchiness is caused by tiny little shards of GLASS. Don't need that shit embedded in my skin.

[BudGood2006]

The Dopest lookin sweet as hell, wishin i wasnt rentin more and more every day!

Thanks! You are quite the DIY guy yourself, judging by your threads. :wink:

mushupork5 looks awesome, im excited to see more progress

Thanks, I have been hard at work the past few days, and I have quite a bit to show you guys. It's lookin damn fine, IMHO.

Budweiser13 "tagged" looks good thanks for posting pictures..........

No problem, I've been wanting to do a Bio-Bucket setup for some time, and I figured if I can help someone with any part of it by posting pics, it'd be worth it. The only thing is sometimes I got too high and focused on work so intently, that I forgot to take pics of some stages. But I got a lot of em, at least...

irie-i keep 'em coming. i wish i knew about plastic covered insulation!

Will do. And yeah, it's cool, much less itchy, as well as having another layer of vapor/sound barrier. A bit more expensive, but worth it.

NPK Yeah, that plastic-covered insulation looks great. I always wear long sleeves and latex gloves when working with regular fiberglass because the itchiness is caused by tiny little shards of GLASS. Don't need that shit embedded in my skin.

Yep, it's way better for the itch factor. I had to mess with some unbatted insulation tonight (I took it off from around the 6" vent hosing, and used it to insulate another area...Waste not, want not), and I sure was itchin after! A trick to get it off: get some of your womans pantyhose, (use her old ones, because you'll ruin em and she'll kick yer ass) and use it to wash your skin, with COLD water. Start at the shoulders, and pull the hose along your skin in one direction only, towards your hand. Use a different section each swipe, this will get out 99% of that itchy crap.

[BudGood2006]

Okie doke, here goes:

Well, first, I decided to round off the corner of the table and sand the edge to a nice finish, being that I don't have a lot of room to move around, just seemed like a good idea.





A mockup of where the buckets and drain would go.





With that, I laid a piece of 6 mil clear plastic down on the table, again to make cleanup easier, and started roughing in the plumbing. I started at the res, and worked my way into the room. Here is the pump, the valve on top has a fitting to connect to a garden hose, to drain the system (i'll use a small submersible pump to drain the individual buckets into the main res).





The beginning of the plumbing (My powershot staple gun is an integral part of my room building skills! )





One side completed:





The barbed adaptor from PVC to hose: ( I remember reading in a thread BigToke advised someone with a smaller system to put the ball valve as close as possible to the bucket, which I have done)





A bit of contractor grade hose and some hose clamps take this:





To this:





I put the valve handles near the access facing inward, away from the access area, to give me as much room as possible to maneuver, I'll be army crawling in there by harvest!





And the finished plumbing. I used PVC as much as possible, to keep pressure consistent.





Hung reflectors: (lol)






Carbon filter with a ghetto-fab prefilter:





Carbon filter hung, using electrician's jack chain, and ducting completed:





Installed the environmental controller:





I made a hole using a hole saw behind the Control Wizard, to route wires cleanly:





The other side of the wire routing hole:

damn thats a sweet setup, keep these awesome pics coming!

[BudGood2006]

The other side of the wall where the res will be, and the beginning of a table to hold the clean water supply:





And VOILA! it's completed!





A pic of the float valve and waterfall:





The 1/4" line running from a 32 gallon Brute trashcan. I made a hole barely big enough for the line to fit into, pushed the hose into the hole, and shoved a barbed fitting into the line. I then pushed the barbed fitting back through the hole, it was tight as hell, a real booger, and even though it wasn't necessary, put some silicone on it.





A cut to size, washable filter, which I'll screen the passive intake with:





And some industrial strength velcro to close the plastic door with. I stapled the loop side to the wall:





And here is the buckets, completed, colonizing the beneficial bacteria:




Constructing this room definitely was a pain, but I enjoyed doing it. I can't wait to put in some clones! I'll be growing Serious AK-47 this time around. I'll post on the construction of the buckets themselves later, gotta get back to work! Peace...