Hi everyone,
I'm setting up a fishroom in the basement of the new house! So I have a few questions. The fishroom is about 15x14. But there is a furnace, wateheater and water softern in one part of the room. The rest of the room is basement--two walls are exterior walls, one wall is to next to the stairs into the room and the other wall is to the rest of the basement. The furnace, etc are agains that wall and one exterior wall. I haven't been in it yet--my wife chose it, so hopefully the online pictures are acurate?Here are my general thoughts:
1. The top half of the exterior walls are covered with a large white tarp--I am guessing there is fiberglass insulation underneath? I think I should remove this. Good idea? If I'm careful...
2. Paint the exterior walls with drylock or something similar.
3. Insulate the exterior walls with foam board, R19-R30 (the house in Dayton, Ohio, so I'll probably lean towards more insulation if the cost isn't insane.
4. How important would it be to put drywall up after I put up the foam board. I'd rather not to save time and money, but it would be nice to hang posters on the wall I'm mentally reserving for storage/maintenance. But I figure I should cover the foam board. Ideas? I figure I'll need to put a vapor barrier (just a sheet of plastic?) up before I put up dry wall. Correct?
5. I plan to install a linear air pump and filter the tanks that way. So I'll install the pump and connect to a ring of large PVC Pipe attached to the ceiling.
6. I plan to keep the tanks covered, but to manage humidity I plan on getting an Heat Recovery Ventilator and getting the room hooked up to get negative pressure in the room.
7. Once the airpipe is hooked up and the HRV is ready, I then plan to cover the ceiling with insulation foam.
8. I'm thinking having a door to the room would be good (right now the room connects to another storage area on the other side of the stairs. So if I drywall one part of the room, I might need to drywall the rest just for symmetry.
9. As for the number of tanks, I'm still working on that. Probably that depends on how much time and money it takes to set the room up. Knowing me, I'll have a beautifully room stocked with a single goldfish living in a plastic cup!:y220d: Seriously, I have a rack plan (20-25 tanks, mostly 10s and 20s), but I will probably need to redo it once the room is actually setup.
Any other thoughts or ideas would be appreciated...
Nate
I'm setting up a fishroom in the basement of the new house! So I have a few questions. The fishroom is about 15x14. But there is a furnace, wateheater and water softern in one part of the room. The rest of the room is basement--two walls are exterior walls, one wall is to next to the stairs into the room and the other wall is to the rest of the basement. The furnace, etc are agains that wall and one exterior wall. I haven't been in it yet--my wife chose it, so hopefully the online pictures are acurate?Here are my general thoughts:
1. The top half of the exterior walls are covered with a large white tarp--I am guessing there is fiberglass insulation underneath? I think I should remove this. Good idea? If I'm careful...
2. Paint the exterior walls with drylock or something similar.
3. Insulate the exterior walls with foam board, R19-R30 (the house in Dayton, Ohio, so I'll probably lean towards more insulation if the cost isn't insane.
4. How important would it be to put drywall up after I put up the foam board. I'd rather not to save time and money, but it would be nice to hang posters on the wall I'm mentally reserving for storage/maintenance. But I figure I should cover the foam board. Ideas? I figure I'll need to put a vapor barrier (just a sheet of plastic?) up before I put up dry wall. Correct?
5. I plan to install a linear air pump and filter the tanks that way. So I'll install the pump and connect to a ring of large PVC Pipe attached to the ceiling.
6. I plan to keep the tanks covered, but to manage humidity I plan on getting an Heat Recovery Ventilator and getting the room hooked up to get negative pressure in the room.
7. Once the airpipe is hooked up and the HRV is ready, I then plan to cover the ceiling with insulation foam.
8. I'm thinking having a door to the room would be good (right now the room connects to another storage area on the other side of the stairs. So if I drywall one part of the room, I might need to drywall the rest just for symmetry.
9. As for the number of tanks, I'm still working on that. Probably that depends on how much time and money it takes to set the room up. Knowing me, I'll have a beautifully room stocked with a single goldfish living in a plastic cup!:y220d: Seriously, I have a rack plan (20-25 tanks, mostly 10s and 20s), but I will probably need to redo it once the room is actually setup.
Any other thoughts or ideas would be appreciated...
Nate