Hey all. I'm moving into a new place that has a full concrete basement in the next week. I've drawn up my plans in sketchup. ALL CRITIQUES WELCOME! Let me know if I'm missing anything. Everything is exactly to scale except a few unimportant things. I'll describe in detail the pictures below:
This is the model of the entire basement. There is a hot water heater and a gas powered furnace next to it. There's a spare shower in the corner, a window that can't be opened, a utility tub (for the RO\DI unit that will be nice) and the breaker box.
Here is the room. I plan to frame it tight to the concrete ground and screw in the top of the frame to the rafters in the ceiling. The equipment is as follows:
2 - 600 Watt HPS
2 - 600 Watt ballasts on the far left outside of the room near the breaker box
1 - Exhaust fan [haven't chosen one yet exactly, need to figure out CFM]
1 - Dehumidifier\Humidifier possibly if needed
The measurements are 9' long by 4' wide of usable open grow space. I think to the ceiling it's 8' tall. The pallets are 3-4' long, however long I need them to be for the footprint of each 6.
I plan to make the frame of the room out of metal and use fire rated dry wall or insulation or both on the inside of the frame. I realize in the pic the drywall is on the outside of the frame. No big deal.
The exhaust fan will pull air through both air-cooled hoods and go straight out into the open basement after exiting through the carbon scrubber. I'll probably make the scrubber myself as they are pretty easy to make.
There is a dehumidifier on the table in the corner. I'll also add some oscillating fans and the odds and ends.
I want to figure out what i should do for the intake. I was planning passive? My biggest concern is smell. I think the scrubber if its rated properly should take most of the odors out. I'll also probably get some ONA PRO gel to help for the basement smell.
There's also two pallets that have wheels on the bottoms so I can roll out the entire palette one by one out of the room into the open basement to tend to everything. I plan on putting the front of the room on hinges so there is a big enough door\opening to roll the pallet out.
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My questions are to see how I should do the intake? Can it be passive? Where should I put it? I'm probably not going to use CO2. I'd like to but I think the room has to be sealed. I'm not sure how to air condition a sealed room?
My other question is if I need an air conditioner unit installed in the summer to keep the temps down, how can I go about doing that? The window in the basement isn't able to be opened because it's all glass and not meant to be opened. If I build a window AC unit into the room with a box duct coming off the back of it, how and where could I port the box duct to? Advice?
Any other critiques would be great. Anything you see that isn't right. The exhaust hole for the ducting and the fan will probably be higher and I'll use flex duct to attach it to the first light, but I didn't feel like modeling it.
I hope I get some good advice and I encourage people to use Sketchup by Google to preplan there stuff! Let the critiques begin...
Thanks,
B
This is the model of the entire basement. There is a hot water heater and a gas powered furnace next to it. There's a spare shower in the corner, a window that can't be opened, a utility tub (for the RO\DI unit that will be nice) and the breaker box.
Here is the room. I plan to frame it tight to the concrete ground and screw in the top of the frame to the rafters in the ceiling. The equipment is as follows:
2 - 600 Watt HPS
2 - 600 Watt ballasts on the far left outside of the room near the breaker box
1 - Exhaust fan [haven't chosen one yet exactly, need to figure out CFM]
1 - Dehumidifier\Humidifier possibly if needed
The measurements are 9' long by 4' wide of usable open grow space. I think to the ceiling it's 8' tall. The pallets are 3-4' long, however long I need them to be for the footprint of each 6.
I plan to make the frame of the room out of metal and use fire rated dry wall or insulation or both on the inside of the frame. I realize in the pic the drywall is on the outside of the frame. No big deal.
The exhaust fan will pull air through both air-cooled hoods and go straight out into the open basement after exiting through the carbon scrubber. I'll probably make the scrubber myself as they are pretty easy to make.
There is a dehumidifier on the table in the corner. I'll also add some oscillating fans and the odds and ends.
I want to figure out what i should do for the intake. I was planning passive? My biggest concern is smell. I think the scrubber if its rated properly should take most of the odors out. I'll also probably get some ONA PRO gel to help for the basement smell.
There's also two pallets that have wheels on the bottoms so I can roll out the entire palette one by one out of the room into the open basement to tend to everything. I plan on putting the front of the room on hinges so there is a big enough door\opening to roll the pallet out.
- - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - QUESTIONS
My questions are to see how I should do the intake? Can it be passive? Where should I put it? I'm probably not going to use CO2. I'd like to but I think the room has to be sealed. I'm not sure how to air condition a sealed room?
My other question is if I need an air conditioner unit installed in the summer to keep the temps down, how can I go about doing that? The window in the basement isn't able to be opened because it's all glass and not meant to be opened. If I build a window AC unit into the room with a box duct coming off the back of it, how and where could I port the box duct to? Advice?
Any other critiques would be great. Anything you see that isn't right. The exhaust hole for the ducting and the fan will probably be higher and I'll use flex duct to attach it to the first light, but I didn't feel like modeling it.
I hope I get some good advice and I encourage people to use Sketchup by Google to preplan there stuff! Let the critiques begin...
Thanks,
B