Well now, finally some pics! I wish they were better subjects, anyways checkout my new area. I meant to take pics before I put up the first half of the wall up, these pics are taken from inside there, obviously, if you couldn't tell.
In the flower room pic, the dark area on the other side is a vent hole also acting as a drain. You can't tell but I elevated and sloped the floor in the direction of the drain. At the hole it is ground-0, all around the edges are 1-1 1/2. It works nicely. The material is actually commercial grade roofing "TPO" or "DURALAST" it doesn't begin to stretch or rip until winds consist of 250-300 mph, If applied correctly. One thing that made me want to use this is the fact that the first time I ever saw it or had to work with it that day I could feel the tan that my face had received that day. Just like being at the beach. You can set a drink with ice in a paper cup from Mc D. on the surface
of this stuff after lunch, mid summer, and 30 min later you will still have ice and soda in the cup! On shingles you would be lucky to get thirty mins out of a large styrofome cup before the ice was gone. It stays somewhere around mid 80's in the sun, It comes clean real easy with a scrubrush and some bleach. It's so reflective that you cannot be on the roof with out sunglasses, If you forget them that day, your eyes wont ever adjust to that brightness, Its alot like a pool liner, maybe thicker.
If you look closely at the pics of my lights you wil see that I drilled holes in the very top flat angled part of the reflector. This helped a lot! I think a major flaw with my design is that there is hardly any air space between the walls and the light fixture, I think I can help the flow along by angling some small fans at a 45 towards this small gap.
I've had trouble with the 100 percent light tight room, being that the veg and the flower room are one to begin with. You need a door that isn't to hard or time consuming to remove and put back all the times needed. Plus I have NO room to be wasting on anything. I dont think I sent the close up but this time I made a door with the TPO material and glued velcro to the door and the doorjam, with a little buffer of foam strip. It works great! Last time, that was the worst part of it! Messing with that damn door out of ISO board! This one I can simply roll it up from the bottom, wherever I stop the stuff stays right there in a roll! I love it, I tried magnets first but they are not strong enough.
The veg area is also the TPO stuff, I made it with a 3" lip around the edges on a table that is elevated on one end to ensure runoff. You can downright spill a gallon of water and it will stay in the little "pool" and drain quickly at the other end. It's just enough pitch wher water wont stand.
The thing I'm most proud of is my exhaust stack exiting at the peak. It's about 16-18 feet in the air outside which looked out of place bad to me but I realize that I was a little paranoid too. Then I got the brilliant idea to put a streetlight type light at the top! I took the ballast out because of the weight so I t doesn't even work! Its got a power cord and everthing! :hubba:
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Every once in while I need to check and clear out a littel debri up there, now I'm just working on my light. I don't Think I attached that pic, I'll get it to you later, othr than that there's whats left of them! I did leech them again and they are looking better
I think the taller skinny has a nail in the coffin! Well I gotta get going, I'm trying to get my boat in order for this season, I didn't use it this year over the colder months. So anyways, What do you think? Pretty good use of the space I think, I have room for resevoirs and the other stuff for hydro, without changing to much around.... hopefully! You haven't seen above the lights but theres room, and below the veg table is my cloning area, I have agood 3-1/2 ' which in the future I can cut into that if needed. TTYL BRO
