Kentanner11
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I bet that thing was hea-vy!
430gal., L-shaped display
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tkeracer619
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Awesome! The tangs will love you for this.
Kustomreefer
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I'll enjoy tagging along!!
"Umm fish?"
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Kentanner11--I bet it was, too.
tkeracer619--For cleaning out my basement?
Kustomreefer--Howdy!
tkeracer619--For cleaning out my basement?
Kustomreefer--Howdy!
"Umm fish?"
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"Umm fish?"
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It's very strange when they start cutting the sides off your house.
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I do hate that we had to lose that tree (a gorgeous ornamental pear), but it was on its way out anyway. We've lost at least half of the tree in the last three years to snowstorms. The heart wood was pretty far gone. So, we've already planted its replacement in another part of the yard.
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I do hate that we had to lose that tree (a gorgeous ornamental pear), but it was on its way out anyway. We've lost at least half of the tree in the last three years to snowstorms. The heart wood was pretty far gone. So, we've already planted its replacement in another part of the yard.
Kentanner11
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wow that is extreme!
"Umm fish?"
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That whole brick wall you see is coming down eventually, too. The plan is to have the surveyor out next week and to start digging the new basement.
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Saturday, they had people out with an enormous vacuum cleaner to suck out all of the blown insulation. The vacuum cleaner bag took up about half of the big dumpster that's taking up the whole backyard.
Monday, they pulled up about 1/4 of the floor on the first floor in anticipation of the installing the big steel beam that's taking the place of the doubled 2 x 6s that were supporting the entire house. :eek1: Plus, somewhere down the line, whoever was in the house removed the support beam that was keeping the 2 x 6s level across the long span of the basement. :eek1: No wonder the house was shifting.
I guess it's possible that they are starting to demo the concrete pad in the basement, too. I've heard some muffled machinery noise.
The big meeting with the geothermal guy is today. I hope he's been thinking about the aquariums....
Monday, they pulled up about 1/4 of the floor on the first floor in anticipation of the installing the big steel beam that's taking the place of the doubled 2 x 6s that were supporting the entire house. :eek1: Plus, somewhere down the line, whoever was in the house removed the support beam that was keeping the 2 x 6s level across the long span of the basement. :eek1: No wonder the house was shifting.
I guess it's possible that they are starting to demo the concrete pad in the basement, too. I've heard some muffled machinery noise.
The big meeting with the geothermal guy is today. I hope he's been thinking about the aquariums....
ccampbell57
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I can't wait to see the progression of this one!
"Umm fish?"
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Thanks, y'all.
I just got back from a meeting with the builder, architect, and geothermal guy. The builder is planning on completely isolating the fish room from the rest of the house (closed-cell foam). The geothermal guy is planning on running a room zone (heat and cool) into the fish room but essentially we're planning on controlling the temperature in the room with the thermal mass of the water. That is, I'll also have a heating and cooling zone that's the fish tanks and they'll basically set the temperature for the room--the whole room thermostat will be for emergencies or if, for some untold reason that I can't possibly imagine, there's ever not a huge number of fish tanks around.
As for humidity, the fish room will have its own separate air handler so humid air isn't mixed in with the rest of the house. It'll have a dehumidifier. The problem is the heat of the summer and he's off thinking about what to do about that.
I just got back from a meeting with the builder, architect, and geothermal guy. The builder is planning on completely isolating the fish room from the rest of the house (closed-cell foam). The geothermal guy is planning on running a room zone (heat and cool) into the fish room but essentially we're planning on controlling the temperature in the room with the thermal mass of the water. That is, I'll also have a heating and cooling zone that's the fish tanks and they'll basically set the temperature for the room--the whole room thermostat will be for emergencies or if, for some untold reason that I can't possibly imagine, there's ever not a huge number of fish tanks around.
As for humidity, the fish room will have its own separate air handler so humid air isn't mixed in with the rest of the house. It'll have a dehumidifier. The problem is the heat of the summer and he's off thinking about what to do about that.
"Umm fish?"
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Today's demo photos: http://65.102.221.68/demo3/
The highlights are that they've now removed the floor throughout the main level. Crazy that. Not pictured here, but they've now also completely cleared out the basement (including all of the sewer plumbing ... ewww) of everything except the scaffolding that's supporting the main beam of the house. It's getting close to just being a brick box. I never really imagined that they'd strip it down this far, but it'll be cool when it's done.
BTW, I've saved all of the 100-year-old heart pine flooring for future woodworking projects.
The highlights are that they've now removed the floor throughout the main level. Crazy that. Not pictured here, but they've now also completely cleared out the basement (including all of the sewer plumbing ... ewww) of everything except the scaffolding that's supporting the main beam of the house. It's getting close to just being a brick box. I never really imagined that they'd strip it down this far, but it'll be cool when it's done.
BTW, I've saved all of the 100-year-old heart pine flooring for future woodworking projects.
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I didn't forget to mention it, Ben. That was your day. Heck, I'm really sorry that I had to miss your backstage tour. That's one heck of a fish room you've got there.
The early photos are back now. It looks like _you_ were the one who crashed my computer last night. :mad2:
Heck, I'm really sorry that I had to miss your backstage tour. That's one heck of a fish room you've got there.The early photos are back now. It looks like _you_ were the one who crashed my computer last night. :mad2:
"Umm fish?"
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BTW, it looks like Xcel will be cutting the power to my switches for a couple of hours this morning, so all of my photos will be down. Sorry.
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Thanks, asmodeus! Though I think I'll be much more excited when we have indoor plumbing again. 
Xcel installed the new meters today, so we're all set on power. The guys have removed all of the rest of the flooring from the main floor and finished shoring up the main house beam until the excavation is done and they can slide the steel beam into place.
One of the floor joists collapsed under load today, but the guy that was walking across it managed to make it to the next joist before taking a tumble into the basement. Yikes. This was, of course, right in the middle of the site meeting with us, the architect, the builder, the engineer, and various other people all watching. The engineer had just said (seriously), "The wood all looks better than I thought it would." Sigh.
Xcel installed the new meters today, so we're all set on power. The guys have removed all of the rest of the flooring from the main floor and finished shoring up the main house beam until the excavation is done and they can slide the steel beam into place.
One of the floor joists collapsed under load today, but the guy that was walking across it managed to make it to the next joist before taking a tumble into the basement. Yikes. This was, of course, right in the middle of the site meeting with us, the architect, the builder, the engineer, and various other people all watching. The engineer had just said (seriously), "The wood all looks better than I thought it would." Sigh.
Kentanner11
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ah, lol! what did your engineer say after that? lol!
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