So I recently got a new property and moved into it, and there was a detached garage that was in an inconvenient place for some disabled people in the family, and a garage got added on to the main house, making the old garage redundant.
This meant that it was now my man-cave.
I moved during the summer(last summer), and it became immediately obvious that the temperatures in the garage went over 90F, which obviously will not work. The infallible matriarch deemed that I had $5,000 for the mancave. I started by running 100A 120V and 35A 240V out to the garage. The 100A 120V circuit goes to a lug box with 5 20A/120V circuits(ceiling lights/projectors/microwave/fridge/kegorator, then all 4 N/S/E/W walls each at 20A with 2 GFCI outlets each) and the 35A 240V goes to a 28,800 BTU air conditioner. The air conditioner kills it, it's almost September and it has performed admirably throughout the summer so far.
The garage was just a garage. No insulation, nothing. One 15A circuit running out to it for the garage door. Unfortunately I lost the phone that had the before pictures of the garage. But anyway, with the imposed $5,000 budget(much of which had already been spent on the materials/tools to run the electrical circuits out to the garage and purchase the air conditioner), that meant that the entire project was DIY and paying friends with beer and whatnot.
As you can see, at all times we observed the strictest of safety precautions.
So anyway, here's the "finished" product. At some point I decided I didn't care about the wood paneling anymore and just wanted to get my stuff in there, so there's a lot of bare insulation.
~550G total(180+150+80+100 of 220g sump+canisters+UV+PVC), 12GPH drip with 1 micron sediment filter and BRS chloramines monster, 90,000+ UV exposure on every return to all 3 tanks.
This meant that it was now my man-cave.
I moved during the summer(last summer), and it became immediately obvious that the temperatures in the garage went over 90F, which obviously will not work. The infallible matriarch deemed that I had $5,000 for the mancave. I started by running 100A 120V and 35A 240V out to the garage. The 100A 120V circuit goes to a lug box with 5 20A/120V circuits(ceiling lights/projectors/microwave/fridge/kegorator, then all 4 N/S/E/W walls each at 20A with 2 GFCI outlets each) and the 35A 240V goes to a 28,800 BTU air conditioner. The air conditioner kills it, it's almost September and it has performed admirably throughout the summer so far.
The garage was just a garage. No insulation, nothing. One 15A circuit running out to it for the garage door. Unfortunately I lost the phone that had the before pictures of the garage. But anyway, with the imposed $5,000 budget(much of which had already been spent on the materials/tools to run the electrical circuits out to the garage and purchase the air conditioner), that meant that the entire project was DIY and paying friends with beer and whatnot.
As you can see, at all times we observed the strictest of safety precautions.
So anyway, here's the "finished" product. At some point I decided I didn't care about the wood paneling anymore and just wanted to get my stuff in there, so there's a lot of bare insulation.
~550G total(180+150+80+100 of 220g sump+canisters+UV+PVC), 12GPH drip with 1 micron sediment filter and BRS chloramines monster, 90,000+ UV exposure on every return to all 3 tanks.