I would like to vent my room outside of my house, located right outside of the grow room is the B Vent for the water heater (furnace is HE so it is capped off), but I don’t believe that is a great idea. My other option would be to tie into the dryer exhaust…has anyone done this? Is this plausible? Or a big No No?
The room is in the basement.
You could but you’d need a one way flap duct so the dryer exhaust isn’t super heating your tent.
If the heater vents big enough I would say that would be fine
My grow is also basement area and I have a exhaust hook up to dryer vent using a Y in closest to the exit point to the outside. Also using the flap duct as @BobbyDigital Mentioned. You may be able to install a second dryer vent to the outside if it’s not too much trouble.
That’s what I use a second wall cap
Is this one way flap duct something I can purchase at a Lowes or HD? I will need to go from 6"-4", so a reducer is needed.
Does it matter that it will be like a 25-25 foot run of duct?
You will need to find something else then. You don’t want to drop from 6” to 4”. Unless you’re running at low speed.
@dmykins yes you can purchase everything you need at the Big Box store. Keep your 25-foot exhaust run straight as possible. I chose to reduce from 6 to 4 inch I installed the reducer an Y closest to the exit point and also removed the louvers in the dryer vent. I have maximum negative pressure inside tent. As @BobbyDigital mentioned if you can stay 6 inch all the way out would be the best. I was looking at drilling through the double band on the subfloor plus a 8 inch log not a easy task. Good luck
I have my tents in a spare bedroom with attic access. I installed ducting to vent the output into the attic. Attic humidity can be a concern when doing this, but I keep my humidity a bit low in my tent to mitigate the humidity.
Typically I run my exhaust fan 24/7 on a setting of 1 or 2, have you run into any issues with it being reduced from 6-4"? My plan is to have the reducer at the end of the run 25’ run. So it will be 6" all the way to the y then drop it to 4". Unfortunately I do have a few corners to turn.
@dmykins I also run my exhaust fan 24/7. The variable speed on exhaust fan set on medium. But to answer your question no I have not had any problems.
Sweet. I will give it a shot and see how it goes. I wish I could just tie into my b vent. It’s literary 5 inches away lol
The only issue with venting in the attic is if it snows where you grow you will be the only house without snow on the roof and that a dead giveaway.
I’d did that about 15 yrs ago and my house definitely stood out like a sore thumb in the winter. Lol
There’s really no way for me to get it through to the attic. I actually have a room built in my basement.
Yeah ! @Indicanna_Jones I definitely understand that there’s something fishy going on or you having the worst insulated house in the community.