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Thanks for the reply! The exhaust is definitely more than 1m. away from the windows and air intakes, but it is about 1ft. from the electrical junction box for my future AC and hot tub.
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Past your bedtime boss.
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You're right! I am out!
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Looks impressive so far, I look forward to seeing it come together.
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The inspectors came on Friday and passed all the work done a few weeks back. So I am cleared to close it up and call for a final inspection.
Brett came by and helped me vapor barrier and drywall. He helped me finish off the vapor barrier, which I was struggling with. Once it was all up, I went OCD on tuck taping and he did the lower half of the drywall around the whole room. http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2871/9...8df5d0d31c.jpg IMG_2900 by gschaus, on Flickr Next it will be the drywall for the upper half of the room, the ceiling and framing in the bulkhead around the HVAC and plumbing. If anyone knows a good taping and mud person that isn't busy, let me know. I really don't feel like doing that myself. Then some more framing for the quarantine frag tank stand/counter, and it'll be time for glass! |
i've heard there are tuck tape shortages in and around the calgary area!
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Yup! If I had one more roll, I wouldn't have needed the vapour barrier!
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Over the past couple of days I have had more help. A buddy who is also into fish came over after work yesterday and helped me frame in the bulkheads around my HVAC. He is not responsible for them looking so crappy! It was my idea to have the lower 2x4 below the runners, but it worked out because I was able to use them to level everything out. On the longer HVAC run, I was way off on measuring, so the bottom 2x4s are only part way screwed in, to level it all out! Hopefully the drywall hides it all! If I need a little more surface to anchor drywall to, I may have to double up the long 2x4s... As you can tell, I do not do this for a living!
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3704/9...aa513c587a.jpg IMG_2911 by gschaus, on Flickr http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3758/9...17a0eb83b7.jpg IMG_2913 by gschaus, on Flickr http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5496/9...d2f7b2ef1a.jpg IMG_2912 by gschaus, on Flickr Tonight, I started putting drywall up on the top half of the room. I didn't get very far, but I am sure I can plug away at this next week. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3672/9...c949e02a6c.jpg IMG_2916 by gschaus, on Flickr I checked on the Starfire glass for the front of my tank, and it is ordered and on its way! I am pumped. I need to get this drywall up, have someone mud and tape, and I need to clean the silicone off the current pieces that I have. The glass should be in and ready in a couple of weeks, so the timing should be just about perfect! I mentioned earlier that I am using the 8'x27" 3/4" front piece of glass from this tank as the base for a frag/quarantine tank. Does anyone have any suggestions on how deep the quarantine tank/frag tank should be? I was thinking 14". If I do that, I can nearly make the whole thing from the sheet of Starfire that I am bringing in. If I lowered it to 11", I could do the whole thing! I would like it a bit deeper, as I want to get some fish that like to burrow in the sand. It would likely be traumatic for a fish like that to quarantine in a shallow, glass bottomed tank. Let me know your thoughts! Also, if anyone knows a mud/taping person that wants to get this done, let me know! |
I QTd wrasses in a bare-bottom by using a take-out tray full of sand - about 2-1/2" deep
Coris literally 'dove' into it when the lights went out Room is coming along very nicely |
That's a lot of work! So, where's the water? :lol:
Fyi, the top drywall piece is supposed to be installed first. It would have been easier. :p |
Piece by piece, this build is coming together.
This past week has been pretty productive. I went and watched my glass get cut for the new starfire front and the frag tank. I got a 143"x48" piece of 19mm starfire and had enough to build all but the back pane of the frag tank. Inspired by that, I came straight home and finished off the back stand/counter top. That only took a day, thankfully and my lovely girlfriend hit them with 3 coats of Kilz Premium while my brother, dad and I scraped silicone from the old glass. We took Brett's 404 apart months ago and moved it to my place, but as always, I left the cleaning until the last minute. Cleaning the silicone off was a PITA. I will not ever do that again. To those of you that haven't tried, and don't learn well from others mistakes, I strongly suggest using Methyl Hydrate to help soften the silicone once the majority has been scraped off. I also suggest roping everyone in that owes you even the slightest favor. Without the help of my family, I would have been up all night. Instead I was up until 2AM and again at 6AM to get done for the build at 8AM. Long story short.... Buy new glass. The hard work of everyone paid off. Here is how things look presently: http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2863/9...78f5d8285c.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3811/9...fdf39986cd.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3750/9...65a7ebc3da.jpg http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5512/9...bc5b591102.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7403/9...387ac8e68f.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7285/9...1b5da1c5a8.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7445/9...4e6907f50b.jpg http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2841/9...2b5e48eca6.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7421/9...c18cb57a3a.jpg http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5343/9...0c868a023e.jpg http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5450/9...499aa7d25b.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3831/9...fc99cbd1ab.jpg http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2820/9...780d7dd53b.jpg And somewhere amid the chaos of the stand build, glass clean and tank build, Christine and I drove to Wetaskawin and picked out our new puppy! http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5532/9...ec801612d9.jpg *Normally when I 'Preview Post' I am able to view my photos. I can't this time. I hope it works.... as the first post on this thread says "This is my first aquarium build and my first thread". Still learning both. |
Pics arnt workin. But glad you are making some progress!
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Yeah. I have 0 idea why they aren't working. I just copy and paste that BBCode from Flickr. That is already more than I know a out the situation!
Wish I could get the pics out. Maybe they'll work later? |
Yeah weird.. now I see two of them. Lol. Maybe they will all work in a little bit.
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I've never used flickr's BBCode so I don't know much about it, but maybe stick to using the image link in flickr (by copying it) and pasting it into the image code icon to embed images like you did previously. |
that is unless you were using the BBCode thing before and it worked. In which case they must've changed the BBCode ? I dunno.. :-)
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I can see all the pics things look awesome! Too bad your family isn't going to answer any calls from you for a while lol.
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Cute puppy!
The tank build looks good. Hard to believe this is your first aquarium! :lol: |
Love the progression photos!! Everything is looking awesome ,cant wait to see the rockwork :D
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