well not quite, at the moment it's just a room. New year and something new to get my teeth into. I have a couple of small fish rooms in outbuildings at home, but the good lady wants to reclaim them as her own (for washing machines/tumble driers/other things I don't know how to operate). So this is approx 31 feet x 27 feet (just paced it out with muddy boots so not scientific). It's the end section of a unit I have on a local farm (in the UK so it's cold at the moment!). Excuse the mess, a new project also gives me the enthusiasm to clear up (slowly).
The floor is concrete (with cheap exhibition carpet at the moment). Concrete is quite deep (especially in the middle) as it used to be a cattle shed and the poop ran away from the sides to the middle and was then washed out of the building at either end (in this case where the wooden doors are) - now it's level (mostly, as I leveled the concrete!). But a fair bit of cold does seem to come through the floor in the winter months (September thru July
)
The roof is a good quality Kingspan insulated roof although does need some filling around the walls and at the ridge.
I have a few issues to iron out, maybe you guys can offer some advice.
The walls are all plasterboarded as single skin brickwork. The plasterboard was the insulated type, but I guess we'll still have moisture issues. I might just plaster over the whole area, but if there's a budget option I'll have to consider it!
I plan to hang a pvc/rubber curtain over the door, although the trunking for the electricity doesn't offer much of a space to hang it below.
Initially, I won't heat the room, although eventually as I expand to fill the space it will become the only sensible method. Also remember at the moment it's just an area within a larger room, so until I can section the area off with a studwork wall, it's too large a space to heat effectively.
This is the whole building. The roof rafters split the building into 6 sections and this area would be 2 sections closest to the camera above (1/3 of the main building). Part of the unit shares the wall with the one further away, but not the section I will eventually need to heat (the insulated plasterboard is only where the walls are exposed). I can't move to a different area within the unit due to what's already in there! (pic from when it was converted from a derelict barn in the spring of 2008).
The picture of the wooden doors also shows a LOT of electrical stuff, there are control boxes for a number of different buildings on the farm housed in there. So when I eventually heat the building, I'll have to look at keeping the moisture away from those!
As for contents? I plan to have some indoor ponds (both tropical & cold water) and some tanks on racking. My brother-in-law and I get given a lot of fish which we rehome and we're hoping to set up something more official this year. He loves his cichlids, so hopefully we'll breed a few to re-sell and help with the costs of running the place.
Any suggestions and advice is welcome, although this will be a budget-conscious fish room!
Cheers
M
The floor is concrete (with cheap exhibition carpet at the moment). Concrete is quite deep (especially in the middle) as it used to be a cattle shed and the poop ran away from the sides to the middle and was then washed out of the building at either end (in this case where the wooden doors are) - now it's level (mostly, as I leveled the concrete!). But a fair bit of cold does seem to come through the floor in the winter months (September thru July
)The roof is a good quality Kingspan insulated roof although does need some filling around the walls and at the ridge.
I have a few issues to iron out, maybe you guys can offer some advice.
The walls are all plasterboarded as single skin brickwork. The plasterboard was the insulated type, but I guess we'll still have moisture issues. I might just plaster over the whole area, but if there's a budget option I'll have to consider it!
I plan to hang a pvc/rubber curtain over the door, although the trunking for the electricity doesn't offer much of a space to hang it below.
Initially, I won't heat the room, although eventually as I expand to fill the space it will become the only sensible method. Also remember at the moment it's just an area within a larger room, so until I can section the area off with a studwork wall, it's too large a space to heat effectively.
This is the whole building. The roof rafters split the building into 6 sections and this area would be 2 sections closest to the camera above (1/3 of the main building). Part of the unit shares the wall with the one further away, but not the section I will eventually need to heat (the insulated plasterboard is only where the walls are exposed). I can't move to a different area within the unit due to what's already in there! (pic from when it was converted from a derelict barn in the spring of 2008).
The picture of the wooden doors also shows a LOT of electrical stuff, there are control boxes for a number of different buildings on the farm housed in there. So when I eventually heat the building, I'll have to look at keeping the moisture away from those!
As for contents? I plan to have some indoor ponds (both tropical & cold water) and some tanks on racking. My brother-in-law and I get given a lot of fish which we rehome and we're hoping to set up something more official this year. He loves his cichlids, so hopefully we'll breed a few to re-sell and help with the costs of running the place.
Any suggestions and advice is welcome, although this will be a budget-conscious fish room!
Cheers
M
