How to Hang Grow Lights From Ceiling

How does one their hang grow lights? This is a regularly asked question. It implies that many people are battling with their grow lights installation. Thus, if you have ended up in the same situation, you are in good company. 

One thing we would like to say before we proceed is, breathe! Installing grow lights is very simple. When you have every one of the tools that you need, you can easily hang the lights. You don’t have to hire an expert to do the work for you. 

In this article, we will examine the systematic steps that you can follow to hang the lights without anyone else in your grow room.

Start Planning Your Grow Room

In any case, before you start the whole process, make sure that you have planned your installation properly.

Planning is the initial phase in ensuring that you set up grow room before planning anything else. For effectiveness, you need to plan every one of the perspectives. 

In the first place, you need to understand your plant’s requirement for light. 

This will help you decide different factors, for example, the type of hanging system you should use. Simultaneously, it would be best if you were certain that you have all the materials you need for the installation of the lights. 

A decent and well-examined plan will simplify the whole light setup. 

Cost is another basic factor that should not be neglected in this stage. Make sure that you understand every cost you will be made to hang the lights. It will prevent the cases of beginning the installation and leaving it halfway during establishment.

In this way, before you start to ensure that you have the accompanying details in your arrangement.

• The kind of lighting you need for your plants. 
• Hardware which is required in the installation. 
• Cost of installation. 
• Technique for light installation.

Issues Faced During Installation of Grow Lights from Ceiling:

At the point when a light setup is not hung well from the ceiling, every grower can smell the risk. Yet, setting up a good hanging light setup is difficult. Here are a few issues when it comes to hanging grow lights:

• The supports(hooks) are not too strong to even hold the light system.
• The statures are not suitable for it.
• The holes that you drill on the roof harm its health.

Possibly one or every one of them is the reason that has made a search for this. Do not worry, and we are going to give you some noteworthy steps to hang grow lights from the roof like an expert.

How to Hang Grow Lights From Ceiling?

Stage 1: Find the Right Place on the Ceiling 

Regardless of how much weight you hang from a roof, it must always be through the studs. Since you can not simply hang them from the roof using a couple of hooks. They are heavy and should be hung in a proper way. 

Most importantly, find a roof joist using a stud finder. To be super sure, rap the region where the stud finer blares with your knuckles.

If it sounds empty, that is the spot you should hang the grow lights from.

Stage 2: Mark and Make Pilot Holes Into the Wall 

In this step, you need to mark the spaces where you will bore the roof. To have it done, you need to know what sort of system you are going to use to hang the whole light system. There are two options; let us discuss them in detail.

Firstly, you can simply install light hangers with a snare from the roof. 

Secondly, you can install a joist to a whole heavier light system. 

You need to make various pilot holes into the wall or roof regardless of which one you opt for. In light of the structure of the joist or the number of hooks, you can choose precisely where you need to hang them from the roof—Mark the points with a pencil or marker pen.

Stage 3: Install A Joist(for Light-Reflector Combo)/ Hooks (for lights itself)

This is the most important and possibly the most chaotic step of the entire process. However, do not worry; we will guide you through the whole process seamlessly.

In view of the number of plants you need to cover, which stage your plants are in, and how much far off your plant canopy is, you can use either multiple grow lights or a grow light-reflector combo. 

If you Install a ‘Grow Light-Reflector Combo‘ often, you might have to serve the plants with multiple growing light-reflector combo, which would weigh around 10-20 pounds. It is too heavy to even think about swinging several hooks, as it were.

Install a wood joist onto the roof. What you will need is:

• A DIY Wood joist frame.
• Joist holders.

As the entire roof joist is on the spot, set up various snare screws on the wooden joist. These would be the support points of your hanging light-reflector combos. 

In case you Install One or More ‘Single Grow Lights’, things are a little simpler when you have hung a couple of single grow lights, as it were. One hook for each light is all you need to do onto the roof. 

Here are the simple steps to do so:

Step 1: Place a hook screw into the hole you have made before into the roof. 

Step 2: Rotate it clockwise and apply a firm pressure. 

Step 3: Stop rotating once it is flush with the roof.

Stage 4: Setup A Rope Ratchet/YoYo Light Hanger

At this point, we have made the help centers for the light systems. Time to put the ropes you will control the stature of the lights with. 

A few novices might stand amazed at How do we need to change the statures of the lights? All things considered, it is one of the indoor growing 101 that plants need light differs occasionally. For a clear reason, you need to higher/lower the lights to get the maximum yield. 

Notwithstanding, there are a couple of intriguing units for the task. The most well-known ones are rope wrenches and Yo-Yo hangers. Both can be changed from a screw drilled into the roof or with a bunch of S-screws from the joist. 

Note: If you don’t want to drill holes into your ceiling then this method of hanging grow lights to your roof will work for you.

Notwithstanding, assuming you need to go manual and don’t have any desire to utilize any of them, an S-screw and a chain will hang lights in grow room fine.

Which Type of Rope Ratchet Do You Need? 

If you purchase a ratchet rope from the store or from the internet, you will be stuck with two choices. A ⅛ inches Nylon rope ratchet and a ¼ inches Nylon rope ratchet. Both have similar uses, however, yet the eight limit matters. 

If you have to hand a couple of HPS grow lights or a few LEDs, the sleeker one(⅛ inches) will be suitable. If you need to gather some heavy gear like the light reflectors or carbon filters alongside the light, you better go for the sleeker one(¼ inches).

Stage 5: Hang The Light Systems from The Support 

We are pretty much done! Now, find the spots of the light setup where you will snare the screws. On the off chance that you need more than one hook for one single system(light-reflector combo), make sure to adjust the height appropriately.

Stage 6: Set the Correct Grow Light Height Above Plants 

The last thing to do is set the plants at a legitimate height from the plants. 

First thing first, there is no rule to set the height on plants. In view of the types of plants, the stages they are in, and the intensity of light beams, you can adjust the height.

To keep away from complicacy, for the time being, we are summing up our answers into ideal growing conditions. 

What is important most is which sort of light you are using. Different watts of grow lights produce a diverse amount of heat when hung on plants. 

Also, overheating grow room is, obviously, a toxic trait for plants. 

Here are the recommended heights (or range of heights) for four of the most widely recognized kinds of grow lights: 

Fluorescent Grow Lights: About 5″ from the plants. 

DEL Lights: About 5″ to 20″ away from the plants. 

HID Lights(Less Powerful): About 24″ to 36″ away from the plants. 
HID Lights(Powerful): About 48″ to 62″ away from the plants.

A few things you must keep in mind while hanging grow lights:

• If you have a drywall roof, you need to use an electric drill to make a pilot hole into the studs. 
• If you have a wooden roof, use a naik gun once the joist is set up. 
• Use joist hangers if you need to hang some of the extra kits apart from the lights. 
• Become acquainted with how to use a joist hanger appropriately if you have dealt with them. 

We hope this article helps you in hanging your grow lights from the ceiling properly.