RobertP
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As some of you may know we sold our home in 2018 and built a new house in the country. Since I have to redo everything from scratch I thought why not try to document everything as much as I can. Or when I can remember to take pictures! I guess I could have done a time lapse with my game camera...hmmm. I will try to post some comments along with pictures.
This is my fish section of the new garage. The garage is foam insulated and the garage doors are insulated as well. I keep a thermostat in there and so far I have not seen it drop below 60 as long as the doors are closed. We have one of the new heat pump water heaters in here so it is giving off cold air and de-humidifies as well. We will see how it does against Texas summers later this year.
Started out building a 4'x8' table to hold my 80 gal refugium and whatever else I want it to. I am weird because I really enjoy watching the fuge so I wanted it up high. This also gives me room to add a frag tank and/or other reactors that I might not want to crawl under the table for. The table is built with 2x4s on 16" centers with screws and screwed to 3/4 plywood and screwed to the wall studs. I finished the table and the legs with leftover Kilz from our house. I do not like painting but I really like this stuff! Then topped it with some leftover exterior paint again from our house. I think that was the last gallon as everything else was interior paint.
Also this is just the start! We are still debating how big a tank is going in the house. However, the new tank will go on the other side of this wall. So once it is in I just cut a hole in the wall to run plumbing to and from the sump. Of course depending on how big a tank we are talking the sump might have to be upgraded as well. New tank has not been ordered and doubt it will this year. I could make a list of all the crap you need in a new house before you can buy luxury items like a tank!
This is my fish section of the new garage. The garage is foam insulated and the garage doors are insulated as well. I keep a thermostat in there and so far I have not seen it drop below 60 as long as the doors are closed. We have one of the new heat pump water heaters in here so it is giving off cold air and de-humidifies as well. We will see how it does against Texas summers later this year.
Started out building a 4'x8' table to hold my 80 gal refugium and whatever else I want it to. I am weird because I really enjoy watching the fuge so I wanted it up high. This also gives me room to add a frag tank and/or other reactors that I might not want to crawl under the table for. The table is built with 2x4s on 16" centers with screws and screwed to 3/4 plywood and screwed to the wall studs. I finished the table and the legs with leftover Kilz from our house. I do not like painting but I really like this stuff! Then topped it with some leftover exterior paint again from our house. I think that was the last gallon as everything else was interior paint.
Also this is just the start! We are still debating how big a tank is going in the house. However, the new tank will go on the other side of this wall. So once it is in I just cut a hole in the wall to run plumbing to and from the sump. Of course depending on how big a tank we are talking the sump might have to be upgraded as well. New tank has not been ordered and doubt it will this year. I could make a list of all the crap you need in a new house before you can buy luxury items like a tank!
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