- Hey everybody, we are finishing up our latest ZipFarm build, and we figured it'd be a good
time to shoot a video and kind of show you some of the considerations for a space, so
like if you're planning out your own ZipFarm.
Just kind of wanted to show you a few examples of what we look for and what some of the information
that we require from you to be able to lay out a nice space and a nice farm ultimately
in your space.
So the first thing that is really important is the ceiling heights of your space.
The minimum for a seven-foot tower ZipFarm system is about 10 feet, and that's kind of
anything hanging, that we need to know the lowest hanging item, so if there's any heaters
in the room, or anything else hanging from the ceiling we need to know the height to
that to make sure that the light racks here will fit under it.
Next we'll need to know the actual dimensions of the room that you plan on growing in.
So we need to make sure that the light racks, the ZipRacks everything will fit, and you're
able to take them out, move them around, get them planted, just so we can develop a nice
kind of work flow for you to maximize your labor efficiency.
So if you'll take a look here, we need, the actual light racks themselves are about 18-feet
long, but the rows of three ZipRacks here will stick out a little bit longer, so usually
I plan for about 21-feet in length from whatever wall we're kind of going off of.
And then you'll want you know, this space on the end here, is really ideal to be able
to move racks out, I can move them around, I can stage them here, I can work on them
maintenance-wise.
So you want a little bit of extra space, so, to really have an ideal setting would be about
30-feet of width, if we're gonna orient the light racks and ZipRacks in this fashion.
And then when we start adding on ZipRacks and we're spacing them apart, each individual
light rack is about five feet, four inches wide.
And then we'll space the ZipRacks the same width, so in general, you're looking at roughly
five feet after each kind of set of ZipRacks to be accommodated in here.
And that's based on, you know, our CoolBar lighting, and the spacing we want them from
the towers to get ultimate growth.
So yeah, those are kind of the main things, and along with that you know, we'll take a
look over here, and I'll kind of show you an example.
It's important to know where your exits are.
So entrances, exits, fire escapes, anything like that, obviously you want have nice quick
easy access to, so you'll see in this layout here we've got clear space to the exit here.
In addition to entrances, exits, restrooms, anything like that that you don't want to
block off, you also want to have access to your electrical panel, and any other kind
of items like that that need to be, you know you need to be able to access.
So in this particular layout we've put the light rack away from the wall a couple feet,
so it's plenty of room for a person to get back here and access the electrical panel.
And then you know it's just really important to know if it's a, if there's any other kind
of features that are gonna throw things off on the walls.
So if there's a little piece that's kind of dry-walled in that's your ducting, or something
like that, oftentimes it will come out from the main wall, 18-inches or so, which doesn't
seem like a lot, but we have, I'll show you over here.
The way that the drainage lines work for this system, are, it's a hard line that runs perpendicular
to the ZipRacks.
And so this needs to be in a straight line.
And so if there's any of those features that come off of the wall, we need to plan the
actual offset based on that so that it can be a straight line, which is ultimately gonna
effect the width of the room.
So just a couple of tips and notes to take into account, when you're potentially evaluating
a space to use for a ZipFarm.
Keep a few of those things in mind, and as always we're here to help you out through
that process, and we're happy to put together layouts for you, and be able to plan the space
in advance.
So let us know if you have questions, and we're always happy to help.