My brother in-law and I are in the process of building an indoor grow box, and we're about 90% complete. I thought I would share what we did and how it works. We used 100% 3/4 " plywood for the structure due to the fact that we wanted a seamless interior.
We then decide to go the cheap route and use aluminum foil backed with adhesive.
For cooling, I found this website in Anaheim, CA which specializes in fans and I bought 2 120mm high speed (110 cfm) cabinet fans which are controlled by a thermostat. These fans are quite impressive! I bought them from www.acfandepot.com at $15 a pop.
For lighting, we went with T8's due to budget. 4 daylight and 2 cool whites which surprisingly put out a lot of light for the volume we have. The lighting will eventually be connected to a timer for 18 hour light cycles, but not yet setup.
The shelving is galvanized diamond mesh ($8 for a 8' sheet at Home Depot)
The thermostat is set to kick on the fans at around 88 degrees and shuts off around 84 degrees. After enclosing the box and trying to control the temp, we quickly found out that 2 fans take about 10 minutes to cool down 4 degrees. Although this might be fine now, probably going to order 2 more to account for more lighting in the future. Plus it will cycle the fans less saving energy. We're also going to build cabinet doors with glass windows before we're done, but this is the setup for now. Any comments or suggestions are welcome as this is only the second indoor box I've built.
We then decide to go the cheap route and use aluminum foil backed with adhesive.
For cooling, I found this website in Anaheim, CA which specializes in fans and I bought 2 120mm high speed (110 cfm) cabinet fans which are controlled by a thermostat. These fans are quite impressive! I bought them from www.acfandepot.com at $15 a pop.
For lighting, we went with T8's due to budget. 4 daylight and 2 cool whites which surprisingly put out a lot of light for the volume we have. The lighting will eventually be connected to a timer for 18 hour light cycles, but not yet setup.
The shelving is galvanized diamond mesh ($8 for a 8' sheet at Home Depot)
The thermostat is set to kick on the fans at around 88 degrees and shuts off around 84 degrees. After enclosing the box and trying to control the temp, we quickly found out that 2 fans take about 10 minutes to cool down 4 degrees. Although this might be fine now, probably going to order 2 more to account for more lighting in the future. Plus it will cycle the fans less saving energy. We're also going to build cabinet doors with glass windows before we're done, but this is the setup for now. Any comments or suggestions are welcome as this is only the second indoor box I've built.
