It's in da house!
It's in da house!
Yesterday I spent all day moving electrical, installing return plumbing and finishing the wall before this morning's move. My plan was to run 3" PVC and run 1.5" spa flex through it so that in the event of a leak in the return I could contain any water and dump it back out into the room/sump. However, there was a sewer vent line running through my wall ~60" from the floor. I got a little creative and ended up having just enough space to run the 1.5" spa flex through the wall and used a couple access panels I found at Home Depot so I have access into the wall.
I ran the spa flex and fabricated a small acrylic tray out of scraps, leftover from the sump filter sock holder, that is attached to the stud directly under the pipe. Since I won't be able to see into the wall regularly will add an Apex ALD to my system and put one of the probes in this tray. That way I am alerted to any possible issues with the return plumbing before anything gets bad.
The access panels have been sealed into place with silicone and the doors for the access panel have were routed by 1/16" on each edge so that I can put an 1/8" gasket around them to seal them to ensure they are water tight. That should keep any moisture from the tank out of the wall.
I have Uniseals coming in my BRS order to go around the orange return pipes coming out of the wall, this should dampen any vibrations as well as ensure a good seal around them.
The last 2 steps were painting. First I painted the wall behind the tank white with Killz paint. I let that dry over night and then got up early this morning and went over it with Remarkable paint. For those of you that aren't familiar, Remarkable paint is a 2 part epoxy that's purpose is to turn any wall into a white board. I have used this stuff at my office all over walls in various locations. Once cured it is hard as a rock and am hoping it will protect the drywall from any overflows, splashes or salt creep. I used this because when we took my old 220 down there were some issues with the drywall directly behind the tank around the overflow. This will prevent any mildew from growing and any salt creep that may accumulate due to splashing from the overflow can just be wiped off. I am hoping that I don't ever need to wipe it down though as the overflow on this tank has a cover already and I just never go around to building one for the 220.
Everyone showed up bright and early, right at Noon and it took us all of 20 minutes to get the tank and stand in. Here's the 14 month old reason its taken so long to finish the room, enjoying the new tank.
And here's what we have with the doors on the stand.
I need to adjust the bottom hinges on all the doors, as the bottoms stick out just a little bit and still to come is the canopy. I wanted a 30" tall canopy from Crystal Dynamics but they advised that a canopy that big would be an awful lot of weight on top of the tank. So instead of getting a full canopy I had them build me the face frames and doors. I will frame out a canopy anchored to the wall and then attach the face frames to it using French Cleats, so that I can open the doors or quickly remove all the canopy panels if needed.
Thanks again to Tony, Carl, Brett, Stephen and Dad for help with the move this morning! And another huge Thank You to Trent and the team at Crystal Dynamics, the tank is amazing! I had high expectations and this is turning out way better than I imagined.
That's all I have in me for today, time to go lay on the couch. :dance:
Oh yea, my backordered plumbing parts should be here on Tuesday!
