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Any advice on saving a warehouse in this hot weather ?

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Any advice on saving a warehouse in this hot weather ?

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The warehouse is 55x110 ft with 22ft ceilings concrete sides with a metal roof. So with this extremely hot weather our warehouse is topping over 100 degrees. We have multiple exhaust's fans pulling the heat out (2 8inch exhaust fans on filters and 1 wall mounted commercial warehouse exhaust fan) but I think its just replacing it with air just as hot from outside. All of our plants are in rooms with ac Split unit's except our mom's stuck in the open. The ac's are struggling hardcore and the mom's are hating life. I feel helpless to do anything except bandage the wounds and hope it ends soon.This is our 1st year in this place and its a challenge so far.









Any advice from some farmers that have been through this before ?
And to think I moved here because I thought it was too hot in Florida.
Yesterday it was 75 there and over 100 here wtf.
 
#2
Elastomeric Roof Coating and insulate the walls - anything to cover the structure....more fans. Sounds like you will need a larger A/C in the long run - A method I use is 2800-3500 BTU's per 1000 watt, proper exhaust fans and 3:1 wall fans per light.
 
#4
If you cant add more ac make the area the ac has to cool smaller with false walls or even plastic sheeting focusing cool air into grow areas and leaving utility spaces warm.
Find a way to get lighting exhaust out.
Styrofoam insulation on exterior walls and roof
More outside air flow at night to get the temps down, shut it up when outside temp gets warmer than inside temp.
If the humidity will allow, portable swamp coolers can help.
 
#5
Any way to seperate airflow from AC rooms and whole warehouse? Are lights ventilated and dumping in warehouse too? Imo a couple 8" fans is not near enough to exhaust it with the big fan. I'd def look into at least some 10-12" exhaust fan since the CFM difference from 8-10/12" is huge. Agreed some swamp coolers will help too, but decent ones will easily run as much as uber nice exhaust fans.

And damn i feel ya, thought i moved from Texas to CO, not the heat again. lol.
 
#6
use these guys suggestions above or if you can't do any if that stuff turn some lights off
 
#11
Swamp coolers 2 big ones should do most of the trick. Some more ac wouldn't hurt either. The swampers will bring the heat down enough for the ac s to work. Overworked ac won't do anything. When it's this hot u will need both. This is year 3 for me personally dealing with Colorado weather, never seen it this hot before though. My tent in 70 degrees with 2 1000 watters on, 60 degrees off. The swampers blowing all that air in will automatically exhaust the hot air up and out threw cracks and raise your humidity from like 20-30 percent to 50-60 not bad super dry outside so no prob. The portable ones are nice they got wheels move where u need. Bout 500$ get u a good one u can put ice in them to get even cooler. Go to lowes now good luck. Also I have 1 swamp cooler and it cools 1700 sq ft with a little 300$ potable ac in my tent vented outside. I remember year 1 u learn defiatly
 
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GR33NL3AF said:
Elastomeric Roof Coating and insulate the walls - anything to cover the structure....more fans. Sounds like you will need a larger A/C in the long run - A method I use is 2800-3500 BTU's per 1000 watt, proper exhaust fans and 3:1 wall fans per light.
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We have enough ac's they just don't cool enough under these conditions.
dirk d said:
Dude add more AC's..what's so difficult??
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Real easy answer there $$$$$$$$$ The 10 ton we need is out of reach for at least 4 more months

Cort said:
If you cant add more ac make the area the ac has to cool smaller with false walls or even plastic sheeting focusing cool air into grow areas and leaving utility spaces warm.
Find a way to get lighting exhaust out.
Styrofoam insulation on exterior walls and roof
More outside air flow at night to get the temps down, shut it up when outside temp gets warmer than inside temp.
If the humidity will allow, portable swamp coolers can help.
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Thanks man That is one of the things I considered we already have r5 walls and ceiling could shorten one of the areas with plastic. This is the kind of help I need low budget.

true grit said:
Any way to seperate airflow from AC rooms and whole warehouse? Are lights ventilated and dumping in warehouse too? Imo a couple 8" fans is not near enough to exhaust it with the big fan. I'd def look into at least some 10-12" exhaust fan since the CFM difference from 8-10/12" is huge. Agreed some swamp coolers will help too, but decent ones will easily run as much as uber nice exhaust fans.

And damn i feel ya, thought i moved from Texas to CO, not the heat again. lol.
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Yes our exhaust dump into the warehouse couldn't afford to run them out yet. All the rooms run at night now but its not helping enough.

I already did a few things that seemed to help but getting my rooms that have uc's to drop from 91 to 86 doesn't feel like I am doing much but it helps. I turned all digital ballasts to 600 or 750 max. I turned off a few lights in the vegging areas. I also opened one of our bay doors and let tons of air in which brought the open areas to 97. When I started it was 102. I am moving the moms from the open areas tomorrow to a room that doesn't top out over 90. Also got the double kick in that nads. Since the hot weather the pm and mites popped up like a bad rash. Mother nature needs to cut a cracker a break. Thanks for the suggestions gonna keep on keeping on and see what happens. So much for growing inside because its to harsh outside. What was I thinking.
 
#14
accept as a total loss and start planning ahead... it doesn't look good
next few months we'll have rolling black outs
 
#15
500$ for 2,12 inch inlime fans and 1500 for swamp coolers, should fo the trick.

Confu.
 
#16
^^^ nice thing about this is it wont require alot of electricity either.( compared to more AC )

Confu.
 
#17
yeah dude are you runnning you lights at night? i'd do 9-9 at the earliest.
 
#18
Dude, been there, done that. Heat build up is a bitch. Sorry to break it to you but if you can't afford to upgrade your AC, you're screwed. It's only June. July and August are the hottest months there. A lot of folks don't realize how hot the Colorado summers can get. Man, I don't miss growing through those Denver summers, that's for sure! 70f today in Seattle! :cool:
 
#19
"We have enough ac's they just don't cool enough under these conditions."

Then you DONT have enough A/C,sorry bro but thats just the way it is.You could try turning off half the lights in the summer time until you get your shit together and can afford proper insulation and more cooling.Never done it myself but a swamper like some suggested should work well in a dry heat but its still gonna cost you some $ to try it out,maybe you could score one on craigslist?
 
#20
Next year we will be able to plan ahead for sure. I will be doing soil all summer. One of our rooms is fine our biggest one one ac isn't working but we are running half lights until it gets fixed. The hot air in the warehouse is making it hard to cool the lights and even if I pulled fresh air it would only be a few degrees cooler. Gonna keep trying things until its tolerable.
This isn't the first huge and seemingly impossible situation that we have been up against yet but they sure like coming in droves.
 
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