Anyone tried putting mylar on their floor in addition to the walls? Does it help with the growing or simply shorten the life of one's eyeballs?:confused:
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Anyone tried putting mylar on their floor in addition to the walls? Does it help with the growing or simply shorten the life of one's eyeballs?:confused:
my floor has mylar on it ... my friend is an electronics engineer, he says its not good ... he says light waves will actually bounce off, and deflect each other ... I haven't bothered to take it up, since the floor is well below the canopy, anyway ... I wouldn't worry about it ... :smokin:
Deflecting....interesting. Thanks for the info. I know it can't be good for my retinas either.
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I tape thick, white, pvc, garbage can liners all around the floor and 6 inches up the walls, since I'm going to be mucking about with water and don't want to worry about ruining the floor. I have a feeling it reflects quite well, though I may be wrong.
Everything looks kinda surgically white, it looks cool and professional so I'm keeping it :rasta:
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VISQUEEN
If you can just paint you floor flat white. white is 99% reflective and it isnt going to rip or get messy. if you cant paint it either go with faithlessxxx's opinion or use white linnolium(like the stuff in your bathrooms - you can get it in rolls) or other heavy duty sheating.
99% aye? I dont think so buddy. Mylar, the most reflective stuff you can get is only 98%.Quote:
Originally Posted by santacruz_organic
Flat white is alot lower, but still good. It's definatly better than nothing, but not 99% reflective.
Flat white paint is actually not far from mylar, like 93% or something. I prefer paint to mylar generally, but I use mylar in some areas anyway because it's fuckin' hard to get white paint to adhere very well to smooth laminated surfaces, at least without doing a lot of extra work. Mylar and a stapler, on the other hand, bing-bang-boom, goes right up on any surface you can stick a staple in. Plus, it looks all high-tech. Heh.
i use myler and its done a great job 4 me leave it down see the difference
Mylar is great...
but VISQUEEN is a million times easier to ue and maintain.
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Do you guys have any problems with the white flooring bothering your eyes? Thanks for all the great suggestions by the way---didn't even think about white on the floor instead of mylar. I love accessing all these different minds for ideas!
I just use a thick light grey-silver tarp. THICK being the most important part since I have plants covering practically every inch of floor space so I don't care about light really, just having water damage come through my living room ceiling!
I second that. My main concern is water. Most of the light will come from the top and reflect off the sides. I wouldn't put the extra work into it. Especially not with mylar. It will rip and get dirty, then you will have to move all of your plants just to take it up. Go some other route...like thick plastic, visqueen like GK said, or something easier to work with. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by stinkyattic
Be cool.
TGF
i concur --- solid quality floor protection takes priorityQuote:
Originally Posted by stinkyattic
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