ScatMan;5097139; said:
is that window glass or acrylic?
i love this project, any updates?
The window is glass. 56" x 19"
Here's the update. My beautiful holding tank is being used as a desk/catch-all right now. But also notice that the to be over the tank wall board is in place.
Things are moving very slowly with just two people (who have never done drywall before). Compounding and magnifying the difficulty is the stairway, utility room and fish equipment room have 14' 8" high ceilings. (8' ceiling over the fish tank)
Today was almost a bust, requiring two trips to town (15 minutes each way) to rent a drywall hoist with extension. Second trip to town was because Ace did not give my husband the 4' extension. You can see how high they are working. The top of a doorway is in the bottom left in this picture.
Last week they worked upstairs. There's a lot of mudding to do.
The tank and stand are going to be shrink wrapped while the walls are being done. It really is a monumental task for two people. There's at least 3,000 sq ft that has to be sheetrocked. So we are still a long long ways from being done...I suspect the fish room will be finished last. I need to be happy that someday I will have my fish room.
My guys (husband and stepson) are also having to deal with some very difficult angles since the equipment room and utility room are in the wedge shape between the new garage and the fishroom.
The plans used wrong dimensions for the fishroom (it's 2' longer), which resulted in a more acute angle 37 or 39 degrees instead of 45 degrees in the equipment room--so I lost space in the equipment room. It's going to be a really tight squeeze.....
Before we could start insulating and putting up the drywall, we had to get the electrical wiring passed. I hired a different person to do the electrical, and he redid, and had to sort out what the first elect. guy had done. Compounding the problem/difficulty, was that the whole house generator I bought was too small to run everything, so things had to be rewired/rerouted. We eliminated things like the fish tank lights, but everything in the equipment room and upstairs is on the generator. I picked what I wanted to run on emergency power. When it was all said and done, the box with the transfer switch was a work of art.
