ReikoX's Workshop Rebuild 2020

I have a similar color in my bedroom, more of a sage green though. I think that’s why I’m leaning towards the blues.

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Not to fuck with your choices but i like oranges, wood and white :rofl: dunno how sharing helps but im me, if i could i would attempt to do a bob ross style landscape on a wall of my grow room/shop. Bit of effort though as that could take months. Id probably do a couple trees a day as my water was sitting out after mixing up nutes before ph

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If you did it in oils it would be very expensive to paint a wall, and you would need to be careful for a couple of months while it dried.

I love watching Bob Ross, they just put about 15 series of his stuff on Amazon Prime, I have watched his first series about 4 times on Netflix as that’s all they got.

Airbrush would be faster.

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I’m color blind so I can’t really help you with the color part of this.

I’d lean toward the blue hues with white cabinets though. White makes it easier to keep clean, and I like the blue in an indoor garden cause it makes it feel more like outside. Between the oscillating fan, the grow lights and the green of the plants, you could almost pretend you’re outside. Way better than actually being outside.

Loving the build so far, it’s what inspired me to expand into my own larger space.

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I finally got a little bit of time to work on the workshop again. I’ve been very busy lately between work, home school, day care, and my normal cooking and cleaning. I took advantage of the nice weather and got my cabinet doors all painted yesterday. My daughter, of course, had a 100 questions. “What are you doing?” “Why are you painting those” “What are they” etc. After I got them painted and they were dry to the touch, I put up some shelf liner on the boxes in the shelves and removed the painter’s tape from around the boxes. Then I put all the hardware back and the doors on.

The whole time I was putting on the cabinets I was cursing the flat head screws. These damn flat head screws took a job that should have only take me about 30 minutes and made it take about 120 minutes. First issue with a flat head is it is difficult to index the screw head. A flat head only has two positions that will work, while a phillips head screw has four positions. Another issue with these flat head screws was that half of them were painted. As if using a flat head wasn’t hard enough without the paint. I tried using a drill on them, but that was laughable at best. I was going to buy new hardware just so I wouldn’t have to fuck with these flat heads, but when I saw the line at Lowes I decided against it. Fortunately, I shouldn’t have to remove these doors again for quite some time. By then, believe me, I will be using a phillips head!

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I feel your pain man, the way my hands shake it takes 5 minutes just to get the head of a screwdriver in a phillips or robinson screw, before I even start to turn it :frowning: I have been trying to get a can of easy start for 2 weeks now, for the lawn mower, every time I go somewhere that sells it there is a 50+ queu outside, and I think fuck that, it can wait lol. Just cut half the back lawn with the weed wacker, its run out of gas and so have I lmao.

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I got a few more hours to work in the workshop. The tape and mud are complete in the veg room now. It is starting to go a little faster now as I get the hang of it.

I even tackled the extraction outlet. Not bad, I’m sure the texture will hide a lot of my mistakes.

And this is why I wanted to get these cabinets finished. They are where I store my stash. The bottom jars are what I have left, the top jars are all empty. They were all full when I started this project in January.

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You my friend have been very very busy :slight_smile:

I put up a 4 by 8 foot grow tent and I am like “what a great accomplishment”

you have built the pyramids in my book

outstanding thank you for letting up ride along

be safe and stay free

Dequilo

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You can see the light at the end of the tunnel, nearly there, bit of sanding on the joint filler. a couple of coats of paint, put the switch covers on and you can attach your ducting and hang your lights.

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I think I’m going to texture in there too… it is coming together, slowly. Luckily I have a couple of tents at the moment, I couldn’t handle lockdown without some flowering plants.

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I ended up moving my tent into the flower room so that I can finish paint and texture in the veg and lung rooms. The ability to move the tent has been very useful. I started with it in the veg room when there was no sheetrock. Then moved it to the lung room so I could get sheetrock up. Finally I’m moving it into the flower room so I can finish the other two rooms up. I may do one more round in it while I finish everything else up in the workshop.

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Thats a big ole sprayer you got there, looks very sturdy, I managed to crack my small one, I think I pumped it up to much, its plastic and it cracked along its seem. I put some P90 epoxy inside and out seems to be holding up atm.

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Everything looks great man as always top notch

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I would think it would be better to not texture the grow rooms. Just gives places for dust n pollen to collect. How do you plan to finish the walls? Just paint?

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Looking like great work all round. Cant wait to see the end result.

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Something I’ve always wanted to say and I am constantly jealous of those who can say it…“My Lung Room”. This setup is my dream.

How long ago did you first want a room like this? It has to be a long time coming for you.

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My dad came over today with the hopper and compressor. After a little playing around, we got a thick texture put up in the veg room. The hardest part was the clean up really.

I even found the motivation to tape and mud a couple more walls. I need to pull out the workbench so I can get the corner behind it. I’ll need to pull it out to texture too. I still need to tape and mud the ceiling and edges. It is going a lot quicker as I get more practice.

Most likely I will put two coats of primer in the veg room next. After that I will put up two coats of exterior flat white like I did in the flower room. In the flower room, I did a smooth texture. For the veg room I’m not so worried about light reflectivity etc. It’s just a few mothers and clones in there really.

I thin I started planning about two years ago. I thought it was only going to take me six weeks, it’s been six months. :joy:

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Hey ReikoX

Starting to look good mate, just remember, good things come to those who wait. Mind you 6 months is awhile tho :joy: :joy:

Cheers Johnny

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It sure is, free time is very limited in my current situation.

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When I tape and joint, I use paper in the angles and fibreglass mesh on the flats. The paper dries the mud out fast so I would just do 8 foot strips at a time across the ceiling to wall joints. You can just overlap the paper if you leave a couple of inches at the end free of mud.

Looks like you messed up your beautiful floors, I hope you can get the paint off.

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