We framed the room, then added the insulation between the studs. On top of that we laid down some black plastic because I went with thinner sheets and they didn't block the light fully.Any links on a how to video of how to set up a styrofoam room?
Would you just hang the lights from the ceiling and have just 4 foam walls caulked in?
@3N1GM4 If you've ever done drywall, this stuff is a walk in the park. There's a few guys here that use it, let me see if I can dig up a thread that has it.
I would frame out the grow area as if building an additional room minus doing it to code specifically, meaning this. (locally) Code dictates exterior walls must be framed out with 2x6 at 16" on center. Interior walls framed out with 2x4 at 18" on center if a load bearing wall and 24" on center if not load bearing.
So for a grow room I would probably frame out at 24" on center with 2x4 for the walls and 2x6 for the rafters. Then I would run conduit, setting up plugs for lights, fans, (de)humidifers, ac, etc. Then just skin the walls as if you were hanging drywall, tape the seams with aluminum ducting tape and hang everything as normal. This way you can actually build out a room within a room and not fall into that category of growers that screws up rentals. If you do it right, when you tear down you'll leave no trace you were ever there and no need to paint or clean excessively as everything would have been contained in the build out.
Still trying to find the grow. I saw it just a month or two ago, don't remember who did it though.
Do you remember if it was on here?
I know you weren't directing the drywall comment at me, it was towards the thread in general. But I just wanted to say, that I've done enough drywall in my day to despise it. Much respect to those people who do it every day, it's a hard, back breaking, living.
The only thing I can think of, that I could possibly dislike more than drywall, is roofing. I've done enough of that to also know that I hate it.
But drywall is the pretty clear front runner. At least on a roof you aren't lugging heavy stuff around tight corners. I'll take the pitched roof & 80 lb bundles of shingles up a ladder much more happily (in my day, that's how we did it) than lugging drywall sheets through a framed house. Drywall is the WORST!
those foam sheets are also rather flammable and provide a fair amount of fuel for a fire and a boatload of toxic by-products. sorry.
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