Laminar Flow Hood & Clean-Room Lab Builds in Austin

A commercial laminar flow hood costs between two and five thousand dollars. That single number is why most people who want to work with cultures never start, the equipment gate sits in front of the craft, and it is set higher than it needs to be.

ArchiFarm builds flow hoods and clean lab space by hand for a fraction of that. The "Archi" in the name is literal. Clean space should not require an institution or a fortune, and it does not.

What we build

Laminar flow hoods, sized to your bench and your work. Clean-room lab space built into a room you already have. Still-air boxes and transfer stations for smaller setups. Shelving, racks, and bench layout so the room actually works once it exists.

Your material, your space

We build in PVC, EMT conduit, lumber, or powder-coated aluminum, depending on what the space calls for and what you want it to look like. Garages, spare rooms, bars, third spaces, and shipping containers have all worked. The space you have is usually more workable than you think.

A hood is a filter and a fan, done right

The physics is not exotic. Filtered air, moving evenly, in one direction, across a work surface. What separates a functioning hood from a box with a fan in it is the fit of the filter, the static pressure the blower is actually delivering, the evenness of the flow across the whole face, and sealing every path air could take that is not through the filter. That is the part worth paying someone for, and the part that decides whether your transfers take or your season is a slow lesson in contamination.

What it costs

Tell us the space and the work you plan to do, and you get an honest number. We come in far under commercial equipment pricing, because you are paying for materials and skilled hands rather than a lab-supply company's catalog margin. If the build turns out to need more than the first look suggested, you hear it before we do the extra.

Why not buy one, or build it yourself?

Buying is the fast option and it works, if the price is not the obstacle. Building it yourself is genuinely doable and a good number of people manage it, the plans are online. What tends to go wrong is not assembly, it is the difference between air moving and air moving properly, which is invisible until a month of work contaminates and you have no idea why. Hiring the build out is buying the part you cannot see.

And when the lab is running

Knowing how to use clean space is a separate skill from having it, so the workshops cover sterile technique alongside the rest. If the grow is heading outdoors or needs more room, that is a greenhouse.

CTA: You get real clean space for a fraction of catalog price, built to your room, by hands that have built them before, and ten percent of the job cleans a local creek.

Tell us the space and what you want to do in it. Use the contact form, or call (512) 808-0153.