- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:29 pm
#450156
This is cross posted from another forum. Apologies if that's not allowed, I'll delete the post in that case. Just looking to get all the advice I can.
Hey all!
I'm recently (trying to) upgrade to a larger grow tent(10'x10) that I can walk inside of instead of my current 2'x4' setup as I'm quickly running out of space.
The problem: I want to keep the tent 90-95% humidity or worst case, at least 80%. During the day, this puts the dew point at around 22-24C. This is an issue because the room (and the rest of my house) is generally at 20C or lower so I get a large amount of condensation on the walls of the tent. This drips down into the bottom of the tent (bypassing the watertight inner liner) and will eventually leak out the bottom of the tent. To combat this in my current setup, I have my entire 2'x4' tent inside of a flood table and I run a sump pump the periodically remove the built up water. This obviously isn't feasible with a 10'x10' flood table because I'm pretty sure they don't exist and even if they did exist, would be ridiculously expensive and also wouldn't even fit through my front door.
My current solutions:
#1 Create an elevated floor using plywood to place the tent on top of and then run strong fans to continuously blow air under the elevated floor to rapidly evaporate any condensation that drips out of the tent.
#2 Place plastic tarp under the tent so the water that drips out doesn't damage the floors. (Issue: water will still build up)
#3 Create some kind of watertight outside reservoir (like those DIY ice rinks) and place the tent inside and I guess some kind of sump pump to pump the water out. (Issue: the entire tent(including the inside) will now be sitting in some amount of water, probably something like 1/4" that the sump pump can't pump out)
#4 Insulate the entire tent. (I guess this works? But would be quite expensive and then I'm not even sure if would be enough to prevent condensation and would offer no solution if water does eventually build up at the bottom of the tent)
#5 Put plastic tarp on the inside of the tent along the walls. Theoretically the condensation would now occur on the tarp instead of the walls and I could place the bottom of the tarp on the inside of the inner liner and then just mop up the water periodically.
Some other info, not sure if it'll be relevant:
- I'm planning on cooling the tent by bringing in outside air and supplementing with an AC unit during the summer months.
- I'll have 2'x4' bakers racks sitting inside 2'x4' flood tables to actually put the plants on
Any suggestion's or feedback would be greatly appreciated. I'd love to see other people's indoor tent builds.
Hey all!
I'm recently (trying to) upgrade to a larger grow tent(10'x10) that I can walk inside of instead of my current 2'x4' setup as I'm quickly running out of space.
The problem: I want to keep the tent 90-95% humidity or worst case, at least 80%. During the day, this puts the dew point at around 22-24C. This is an issue because the room (and the rest of my house) is generally at 20C or lower so I get a large amount of condensation on the walls of the tent. This drips down into the bottom of the tent (bypassing the watertight inner liner) and will eventually leak out the bottom of the tent. To combat this in my current setup, I have my entire 2'x4' tent inside of a flood table and I run a sump pump the periodically remove the built up water. This obviously isn't feasible with a 10'x10' flood table because I'm pretty sure they don't exist and even if they did exist, would be ridiculously expensive and also wouldn't even fit through my front door.
My current solutions:
#1 Create an elevated floor using plywood to place the tent on top of and then run strong fans to continuously blow air under the elevated floor to rapidly evaporate any condensation that drips out of the tent.
#2 Place plastic tarp under the tent so the water that drips out doesn't damage the floors. (Issue: water will still build up)
#3 Create some kind of watertight outside reservoir (like those DIY ice rinks) and place the tent inside and I guess some kind of sump pump to pump the water out. (Issue: the entire tent(including the inside) will now be sitting in some amount of water, probably something like 1/4" that the sump pump can't pump out)
#4 Insulate the entire tent. (I guess this works? But would be quite expensive and then I'm not even sure if would be enough to prevent condensation and would offer no solution if water does eventually build up at the bottom of the tent)
#5 Put plastic tarp on the inside of the tent along the walls. Theoretically the condensation would now occur on the tarp instead of the walls and I could place the bottom of the tarp on the inside of the inner liner and then just mop up the water periodically.
Some other info, not sure if it'll be relevant:
- I'm planning on cooling the tent by bringing in outside air and supplementing with an AC unit during the summer months.
- I'll have 2'x4' bakers racks sitting inside 2'x4' flood tables to actually put the plants on
Any suggestion's or feedback would be greatly appreciated. I'd love to see other people's indoor tent builds.
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