4300 Gallon Plywood Build (3600+ Take 2)
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Already restarted it twice. Not doing that again. No reason since this is the final build thread. Just a tip. Be a professional thread reader and start from the end working your way back.
No pictures yet, but probably Wednesday. Ken is most likely coming over then to help again.
We worked on some of the electrical, insulation in the room, framed the header in the front wall, and put up the molding around the front of the tank.
The light switch in the dining room now works again as it did before. It controls an outlet on the front tank wall, but now the outlet does something useful. Two of the 4' shop lights are connected to the outlet. There will be 8-10 in total when I'm done with only the two controlled by the dining room switch on most of the time.
The house was built in 1964 when swag lights were all the rage. The dining room doesn't have an overhead light (that's a project for another time), so the outlet was a way to have light controlled in the room by the switch. Completely dumb in my opinion.
We worked on some of the electrical, insulation in the room, framed the header in the front wall, and put up the molding around the front of the tank.
The light switch in the dining room now works again as it did before. It controls an outlet on the front tank wall, but now the outlet does something useful. Two of the 4' shop lights are connected to the outlet. There will be 8-10 in total when I'm done with only the two controlled by the dining room switch on most of the time.
The house was built in 1964 when swag lights were all the rage. The dining room doesn't have an overhead light (that's a project for another time), so the outlet was a way to have light controlled in the room by the switch. Completely dumb in my opinion.
opcorn:You know I'm still here waiting , hope you feel better , nothing worse than feeling like dog dirt , bummer 
A dining room with no overhead light??
And I though my house built in 1999 with no overhead light in the living room and no overhead dead space access to add one was dumb.
Here's a little teaser. Hopefully, tomorrow's pics will be far more interesting.
You can see the framing around the tank is redone on the front, the switch that controls the lights I described, the outlet for the two lights controlled by the dining room switch, the cross bracing, the way the insulation is in the rafters, and the hard rubber that goes behind the acrylic to bridge the seal between the Dow 795 and liquid rubber. When installed, the rubber is 1/2" and is flush with the plywood except on the bottom where there's a 1/16" difference.
The pic that you can see my shoes I'm standing on the tank wall. I can almost stand straight up and I'm 5'11".
The white bag in the corner is the threads from MFK and AC up until today. The one from AC I printed with all the pictures and the MFK just has the printable version.
You can see the framing around the tank is redone on the front, the switch that controls the lights I described, the outlet for the two lights controlled by the dining room switch, the cross bracing, the way the insulation is in the rafters, and the hard rubber that goes behind the acrylic to bridge the seal between the Dow 795 and liquid rubber. When installed, the rubber is 1/2" and is flush with the plywood except on the bottom where there's a 1/16" difference.
The pic that you can see my shoes I'm standing on the tank wall. I can almost stand straight up and I'm 5'11".
The white bag in the corner is the threads from MFK and AC up until today. The one from AC I printed with all the pictures and the MFK just has the printable version.
Hey Pete,
Just curious what plans you have to control evaporation, and the potential damage caused to your house by the high humidity. Is there going to be some sort of top on this massive tank? Maybe a ventilation system or something?
Just curious.
Just curious what plans you have to control evaporation, and the potential damage caused to your house by the high humidity. Is there going to be some sort of top on this massive tank? Maybe a ventilation system or something?
Just curious.
You have mold growing in your bathrooms? I don't and they get far more humid and hot than the fish room ever will get.
Zigman, there will be thin plexi on pvc frames on the top, but it will have venting for gas exchange.
In regard to destroying my house, I'm not being stupid about this. Every surface will well-sealed and painted.
I'll also have a dehumidifier to keep the room stable.
We have days here where it's 100% humidity and it's not raining, so I think I know a thing or three about humidity.
