tanks, garage, winter

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
ya foam board and bunjeee cords. just doesnt sound real intriuging looking at your babys that way. and boxing a corner would take about the the same insulboard. and you could see the fisheys thats why you got em.
 
unstopable4700;2220326; said:
you seem like a car guy, you dont weld or run a compressor? any ways if you do have 220 northern equipment has baseboard heaters cheap. around $80 for 1 rated for 100 sq.ft.
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just noticed that was supposed to say 1000 not 100.
 
lol.

thanks for reminding me about northern tool, forgot all about them. alot of heaters to choose from there. i'll run 220 to the garage if its not there already.
 
i want to box off an area of my shop for fish, but winter time i need the room and i would need to put a roof on the room as the current ceiling is 25'.
 
I have all of my tanks in the garage.. I insulated the room with a waterproof metallic type bubble-wrap stuff and then dry-walled over it. Seal up the garage door in the winter with strips of styro and duct tape from the inside. I use an oil space heater to heat the room, or a coil space heater with a blower fan. I noticed it helps to have area rugs to keep the floor from being such a big cold slab of cement. Dehumidifier for the moisture, also produces heat.. Check your power supply sometimes your garage power is hooked to other areas of the house and its easy to blow a line.

Good luck!
 
rallysman;2220388; said:
make an insulated shell for the tanks. Top, bottom, front, back, and sides. If you cant insulate the garage, insulate the hell out of the tanks. just take the insulation off to view them.
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What he said. To keep my garage fishroom in Sacramento easy to heat, I arranged the tanks in an incomplete rectangle (like a room with an opening for a door) and "framed" it like a room with 8'x4' sheets of 1" styro. I also added a styro ceiling to the room. I heated inside the styro room/rectangle of tanks with a space heater, which kept the temp at least 65-70, even in the coldest parts of the year. I kept heaters in the tanks to make up the difference. A couple of small fans will help keep it from becoming a frog pond.

My stands were 3 tanks high and were constructed out of cinder blocks and 2x4s...so when we moved I could bring it all back to Home Depot (keep the receipts :)
 
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