Some days later I popped the cover off of my main breaker when I started wiring my sub-panel to find what I "thought" was the hot wire connected to the box itself, tied with the ground. But, dumb ass that I was, just assumed black was ground and the "other" color must therfore be positive. I did actually look on the net to find out positive was the gold screw on the outlet, negative (or neutral in home electrical terma) was the silver screw. I have never wired a house circuit before and never really paid any attention to it. I am an engineer by trade, in theory we learned using black as ground, red as positive. I put them in everywhere, so wherever I wanted to put something in the future (fans, etc) there was an outlet right net to it. My first blunder came when wiring the wall outlets. Slapped a few coats of flat white paint up as flat white is most reflective of all colors. Once the drywall was up, my next least favorite thing, painting, was next. (1) Hydrologic Small Boy Water Filter $120 (1) Hydrofarm CO2 Regulator $120 (1 unused) (6) Home Depot Light Hanging Chain Sets $50 (2) Radiant 6" Reflectors $280 (2 unused) (2) SunBlaze 2' 2-bulb T5 Fixtures $150 (1 unused)
(4) SunBlaze 2' 4-bulb T5 Fixtures $400 (2 unused) (4) Home Depot 4' T12 2-bulb Strip $100 (4 unused) (2) Home Depot 4' T8 2-bulb Strip $80 (2 unused) (1) Home Depot 4' T8 4-bulb Strip $80 (1 unused) (4) Home Depot 2' T5 2-bulb Strips $100 (4 unused) How I could have forgotten that I do not know, but I pay for it as when the flower room heats up, the ambient in the other 2 rooms kick up a few degrees as well over time. (1) One thing I REALLY kick myself for is not insulating the walls dividing the 3 rooms. With a new empty, clean space it's time to start building, which is where the I will start posting my progress with pictures in future posts, hopefully I can get some good criticisms and ideas from others through the process, and hopefully it can help others just as so many posts here on these forums has helped me. Venting a bleached or painted room in a basement is not easy and takes some time. Every nook and cranny (well, almost every) was wiped down with bleach solution and allowed to dry and vent for a few days. Once the room was cleared and the shelving I wanted gone removed, it was disenfecting time. But oh well, well worth it I can't complain though she's on board with the big picture so I'll take what I get. I think I got yelled at 9 or 10 times during these few days for "cluttering" other spots of the home and especially when I cut the shelving off one of the walls. Not because of the type work, but two words. I started by clearing everything out of my selected space, a small corner of the basement with a finished celing. After days of planning the layout of the walls/rooms and what I thought hat was a final plan, a suggestion by my 10 year old son gave me an extra 15 ft2 of work space without losing much else, I'm an engineer but damn my son showed me up on this one big time. Wanting a perpetual grow, the space seemed big at first but once the planning for the walls started to be made, things were going to be a bit cramped. I wanted to divide it into 3 sections, work area, veg area, and flowering area. The area is about 14' x 10' with 12" shelving all the way aorund the perimeter of 2 walls, (and all the way up the wall, floor to ceiling). With paperwork due to arrive any time, I began a few weeks back, trying to build something the right way instead of just slapping something together (umm like my wife says I usually do). I decided to take a section of the basement and construct a small grow space to suit my needs as a beginning legal grower.
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