The next step was to start tackling the sump room located in the basement directly underneath the tank. I wanted to re-do the way it was setup. First off, I wanted to get rid of the carpet that was in that room, it was just terrible for clean up when I spilled water. Next, I wanted to put a fully functional sink in the room so that I would not have to bring up equipment into the kitchen to clean. I also want to put a few dedicated circuits in the room as well.
Lastly I want to wall in that section of the basement to make it a sperate room, I am hopeful that by doing this I will be able to control the temperature and humidity better than having this section open to the rest of the basement.
But first I needed to clean up and remove EVERYTHING in the sump room. Word of advice. If you have your equipment in a different location other than under your tank and you take everything down, with the plan of redo it months later, take the time to clean up and put away everything in the equipment room.
My sump room, when up and running used to look like this.
After 9 months of not being used the area starts to get used for storage. Any time I needed something, I never put things back in their proper place. So it ended up being a real mess. So now this is what I started with. This whole area needs to be cleaned up and removed. I was not looking forward to it.
After a few days, I had it down to this.
And after a few more hours, all done and cleaned up. I must have had about 100 holes in the wall that needed to be patched.
You should have the stress of having to cut 10-12 sheets of plywood that run around $400 your cost! No pressure
