Man!
As hard as I tried I could only get half the Loft built out since my last post.
The clones I took are questionable. A few are doing really well, except for the heat, a few I’m not sure will make it.
I did get the Exhaust/Extraction finished up into the Attic.
First, I tried to find a approximate 18 inch long rigid duct. I couldn’t find one.
Because of the position of the runs of ducting up the long wall and my decision to go out the Gable End instead of the East eave my ducting needed to be stacked, one under the other.
I have Straight, Left and Right Sheet Metal Snips but they’re not here - decades owned. They must be in storage.
What I have never owned are Hand Sheet Metal Shears, they were always company supplied tools, in the Tool Crib.
I know own one…
I still have to decide on how I want the ducting to go from the 90 degree duct out to the Gable End.
I have TWO Vivosun 6 inch x 25 foot Flexible Ducting. I just hate having to use them up there for that purpose.
I’m going to use one even through my reluctance 
, the next time I’m up there to finish it out to the Gable End.
Then, I needed to build the Header for above the East wall, the wonky wall.
I was sure I had some 1/2 inch sheeting around here somewhere. I looked and all I came up with was this…
It looks like that is the template that created the arched Corrugated Steel above the door.
I had to cut it up but I’m keeping the template itself for the future.
When I went to build the header one of the boards had a bad bow in it of at least 1/4 inch.
Forced compliance was required 
Oh, that one stud I thought I had miss cut? I didn’t. I had forgotten I wanted to put a 2x4 horizontally to complete the hodgepodge construction of that wall.
I did cut a piece out of that stud, it was twisted wildly anyway and scabbed a patch in.
No header…
Header temporarily in place by me alone. I put 2 blocks on the exterior of the wall so I didn’t throw the header crashing down into the Classroom.
I tried to use ALL of the odd Rockwool offcuts I had to fill that wall in.
I decided to keep the Doran Dark Room Light-Proofed Vent as an access point at least until I can get the plumbing done up there. That will work nicely for that purpose. I put the Doran vent up there just to close it off when not in use. I may put a temporary door on it.
That night I did start up the A/C unit up there and put a fan on top of that to try to direct the flow towards the Cloning Machine II.
The next day I started on the South wall.
I sat there and pondered the situation for a while, deciding whether to continue with the Crap construction or start building it correctly up there.
For some reason they put those “studs” on face, just on that South wall. It looks like they found a way to do it cheaply, just putting up furring strips (2x4 studs) to attach their covering on.
They could have just build out the wall they started with the 4x4s and the beam under those joists you can see above. The “wall” they build is outside of what they built. 
When I pulled that Tongue&Groove board in that corner I discovered the Rockwell I used in the Under- Loft Ceiling filled the space better than I thought I had gotten it. From the underside I wasn’t sure IF I had filled that space sufficiently. I had to work around that Beam they installed on that South end. I was shooting blind. I worked out.
I filled those gaps above while I had easy access to it 
I decided to build that wall conventionally. I could have thrown something up and it would have worked, it’s not a load bearing wall. My having the Rockwool insulation for conventionally constructed walls was the deciding factor. No cutting at all!
Then from my desk…
When I pulled that first floor board I decided I’m going to try to repurpose it on that wall above.
I want to try to build a chase of sorts to cover the ducting, that’s why that original 1924 Tin Ceiling is still hanging out the East side. IF I do build a chase I’ll wrap that wing around it.
None of that is necessary but, it should finish how the space looks when someone walks in. I think my Niece would appreciate the repurposing of her repurposing.
I’ve always had that in mind in anything improvements I have made to the place. To try to retain the theme she built.
Now, the Girls!
They’re doing amazingly. Very healthy looking with only a few yellow leaves. Everything else from the bottom to the top are Green and looking great!
However, there was a day or two that I didn’t check on them. Over that time several leaves were scorched. I cut them off, the ones I could reach - it’s FULL in there! 
The Yoyo’s are working great in the horizontal position! (when I get in there to check on them! )
See the Res. Temps above?
For the next four or five or six days it kept giving my that same (exact) reading. Nothing change, not the Temp reading or the Humidity reading.
After those 4, 5 or 6 days with it reading the same. I knew something must be up with it.
I went and checked it and everything looked okay. I pulled the battery out and put it back in and it came back on with the same reading, including Battery strength reading. It got down to 73. Sensor was actually in the Reservoir! 
I changed the battery anyway and the Sensor started reading accurately. 
It looks like the battery was dead even though I was getting readings (false) from it and the Battery Strength indicator showed me it still 73% strength.
I changed out the Cloning Machine II reservoir the last time I was up there AND the Under-Loft reservoir last night.
Temps are higher than I’d like to see them in both, but more importantly in the Bloom Room. I added 2ml per gallon (40 gallons) last night. That all looked good when I was in there.
Here’s the Girls just before Lights On and when I started the Res. change.
They’re not great pictures. Some blurring from the A/C unit right there on the left.
Make of them what you will
Both from the Hinged Door and the Zipper Door…
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The tallest looks to be about chin high (I’m 5’6"). It looks like they have about 18 inches before they hit the ceiling.
This is ANOTHER instance of “what I should have done” I probably should have hung some Panda Film on the ceiling. I didn’t for a couple of reasons, primarily because I knew some electrical work had to be done in there.
My back is really KILLING me. I still haven’t taken any of the Pharmaceutical Poisons provided me back when.
I’m going to try a 
, IF that doesn’t work I’ll have a 
, IF that doesn’t work I ‘may’ take some of their poisons 
Needless to say I’m off the construction team tonight.
I hope the Wee Ones make it! 
Oh Shit! I was going to post that I brought the nutrient level to an E.C. of 1.2 after the change last nigh…right then I realized I forgot to pH the Res.
I know what I’ll be doing while the warms up.
I’m not sure my back is going to let me.
I know why I forgot. I typically pH balance when I add the Nutes. But, Hydroguard instructs to let its product fully disperse in the Res. before pH’ing.
I did that then forgot about the other thing!
Good morning!
Make it a great day, no matter how poorly you feel!
I have a run through the “City” tomorrow (later today).
Let’s see what I return with!
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WHAB
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wherever possible.
it remains so!
It barely comes off the highs of the day up there.
