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Waste water run off

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I need some ideas of what to do to stop flooding my floors. I feed WTD and it just trashes my floors. I have 6' between floor and light hood. I don't have a lot of space to build short stands to collect the run off in.

Any Ideas?

TIA...
 
#4
What is WTD...do you mean DTW? Drain to waste?

1. What is your table height? You simply put a reservoir under your table and make sure the dimensions of the reservoir, fit. Then you put a pump in it and pump out the water. Either a float switch or simple timer to activate the pump. You might have to make a custom table with appropriate size...this all depends on how tall your plants are and how far away you want the light from the plant tops.

2. Get your feed schedule down to a science and only feed enough so there is no run off. Leave your plants on the floor.
 
#5
Sump pump. Or drill a hole somewhere and collect it down there.
Or be a big slacker and put pond liner off the floor, put containers on styrofoam platforms and dtw onto the pond liner, then shop-vac it up. Like a bitch. Done that.
 
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bobby said:
What is WTD...do you mean DTW? Drain to waste?

1. What is your table height? You simply put a reservoir under your table and make sure the dimensions of the reservoir, fit. Then you put a pump in it and pump out the water. Either a float switch or simple timer to activate the pump. You might have to make a custom table with appropriate size...this all depends on how tall your plants are and how far away you want the light from the plant tops.

2. Get your feed schedule down to a science and only feed enough so there is no run off. Leave your plants on the floor.
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Yes it is DTW .

No tables, pots sit right on the floor. This run I have no head room to get them off the floor, I am learning the ways to keep a Kush plant shorter. Don't you want some run off during feeds?



dankworth said:
Sump pump. Or drill a hole somewhere and collect it down there.
Or be a big slacker and put pond liner off the floor, put containers on styrofoam platforms and dtw onto the pond liner, then shop-vac it up. Like a bitch. Done that.
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I was thinking of cutting a hole in each rooms floor to fit a 5 gallon bucket into, then build a low trough/platform to run the water to the buckets, then use a pump to the drain. The shop vac sucks... been there.
 
#7
Condensate pumps work great. Some can pump low as 1/4" of water beneath it.
You can get small milk crates about 6" in height. Put you plants/pots in a Rubbermaid container with a drain and tubing going to your waste Res with the condensate pump, then have that pump out of your room.
This way you don't have to empty anything.
 
#8
I just have plant saucers under all my pots which catch all the run off......I let my plants sit in the run off for 20 minutes then just suck it up with a shop vac or I will use a Turkey baster lil more time consuming but gets the job done....shop vac is your best bet!

the turkey baster is mainly for when watering if the saucer gets to full and is about to overflow I just use the baster to keep it level in saucer...then shop vac comes out!

its a lil more work then just letting it drain somewhere but I cant even risk that in my location and have a leak somewhere!

I find these are the best saucers to get can hold decent sized pots and are solid plastic very sturdy and have some depth in them to allow for some run off to collect in them without the overflow!

I just finished alot of grows with not to much headroom either but only reason I lifted my plants up was to take pics if I didnt do that they would have never moved!

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#9
Shop vac like mitchy and dank suggested if you cant raise plants,ive done it this way but it creates extra work which sucks but gotta do what you gotta do!
 
#10
Following someone else's idea I made a small 6-8" raised platform with fiberglass roofing material slopped down to a rain gutter capped at both ends for collection. Being in a tent I dont have height to do a full automated waste disposal set up, but this will hold about 2.5 gals.

Done over again, Id use plastic coated plywood and make the base more sturdy but still modular so I dont have a big 4x4 platform to move around.
 
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Cort said:
Following someone else's idea I made a small 6-8" raised platform with fiberglass roofing material slopped down to a rain gutter capped at both ends for collection. Being in a tent I dont have height to do a full automated waste disposal set up, but this will hold about 2.5 gals.

Done over again, Id use plastic coated plywood and make the base more sturdy but still modular so I dont have a big 4x4 platform to move around.
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Build a "stage" to put the tent on maybe so you gain a foot of platform height to work with.
Never done it myself, but someone else mentioned it and it sounded like a good idea.
 
#12
I use white corrugate plastic for my base, I then cut out the corner of a 4" plasting downspout for a rain gutter system. This was cut to length prior to removing 1" from either side of a corner, leaving a small amount of plastic to drill screw in order to hold it in place. The white corrugate slides into the drain spout. I add a small piece of pvc with a cap to seal the whole thing off. when I water I put a turkey pan under the spout and remove the cap. Workes like a charm too!
 
#13
Dude just use a flood tray on the floor with no holes in it and suck the extra water out when need to. Its only gonna raise your plants up about an inch
 
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