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SmokeyMcFly
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My grow room before my present on was a house, with carpet. We first put down plastic and then put a canvas/painter's drop cloth over the plastic and stapled the canvas to the base boards.
The carpet looked like new after a year, and it took about a half hour to fill the staple marks and paint over when I moved.
This is a great idea Doc thanks. The staples is the part I messed up with the lenolium, it just moved all over and started to roll up on the ends and is a total pain in the ass at this point. Its going to take some work at this point to pull it off since I have two tents in that room already but Ill get it fixed up one of these days.
Another question, for you or anyone that wants to give some input. I have been trying to figure out how to get some additional cooling in my room and I would ideally like to be able to keep the door closed and the room isolated from the rest of the house as much as possible. Right now I need to keep my entire up stairs heating and cooling schedule revolving around my plants needs instead of ours and while its not too bad its certainly not ideal and my grow room gets a touch warmer then I would prefer. Also the last few weeks before harvest till the end of drying I end up having a little bit of smell leak out of the room since the doors open and it kind of annoys the wife.
I don't think I have enough elec overhead to run an AC in the room and there is only one window that is our main focus window for the outside front of our house so a window unit is out of the question. I have no way to plumb water into the room and the in room units sound like they are a pain but I have no experience with them. I would be able to run the little intake and exhaust thing in the window I dont think that would be horribly noticeable but I would still have the issue of running elec into the room which I dont really want to do and it seems like a lot of them require water hook ups. That was a really long way of saying based on what I have read so far a mini split seems like it would be my best option?
I currently need to pump about three gallons of water into the air everyday to keep the humidity up enough but if I sealed the room off I assume that would change to needing a dehumidifier even though its very dry where I live?
Would I need to run CO2 if I kept the door closed, I wouldn't necessarily be going crazy sealing up every little crack but with the door closed and the vents off the room wouldnt get much new air. I know I don't need it for additional yield but am worried that once I close the room off I would need it just to keep a healthy level of CO2 in the room?
One last question / option I was considering trying before going all out on the mini split. I know you can have slightly higher temps with CO2 enrichment so I am wondering if the CO2 would allow me to keep the door closed without needing the additional AC and just allowing my house system to do the work. Now that its winter its not going above 80 in my tent, in the summer it was 82 max with the door open but I am unsure how much it will increase once I close it. The room doesnt have a return vent so when the door is closed the ac / heat doesnt work that great.
Thanks for any input!