Padrino's 220 Upgrade

[Padrino]

Now this is what it currently looks like, When you walk down the stairs i have sectioned off the "mechanical room" This will be the fish room and the laundry room at the back shared with the furance, HRV, water softener, sump pump and hot water tank.

I have a very tough basement to work with as it has alot of space that will need to be bulked out and an odd shape. Anyways here is a better picture of the top of the support system i installed.

Now a few pictures inside the room

Here is the main water shutoff that i need to incorporate somehow

And here is what the tile that i will install after i insulate the concrete floor and install the radiant heat system. 17x17 porcelain tile that will be water resistant.

 

[Michael B]

Brilliant build - subscribed (love the fact the everything is done so well thought out)

 

[Padrino]

Thanks Mike,
That is the hardest part, wrapping your head around everything that you will need as making a change can be more difficult later on. Once i finish the floor, i have to really sit down and think about what i really want and then figure out how i'm going to make it happen

 

[Taqpol]

That looks like a pretty narrow area, are the washer/dryer going to go in the same area as the fish stuff, or on the other side of that dividing wall (closer to the stairs)?

I remember your upstairs hole for dropping piping and cords through, where does that hole exit downstairs?

 

[Padrino]

Alex,
If you look at the last cluster of pictures, the second one shows the washer and dryer at the back of the basement behind the furnace.

If you look at picture 5 and 6, See the main water shutoff, follow that up. The hole for piping is basically above there

 

[Padrino]

i watched this video on youtube not long ago. I forget the name and how I found the link but it was a sweet fishroom with alot of MRC stuff, skimmer, Ca reactor, some other equipment and some really sweet acrylic sumps with lids. Im trying to find it. I looked in my history and i cant find it. Driving me crazy...

 

[Padrino]

Here is a quick layout of the mechanical room. I will be installing a separate drain in the fish room and then hopefully close off the furnace, water softener, hot water tank, HRV and electrical panel along with the current floor drain.

The red hatched area will be the area that has radiant heating

 

[aquaph8]

Looks nice Padrino. Im so jelious of basements. AZ has none.

 

[Padrino]

Well, I was slightly not happy with how I left the sink that will be directly behind the main display tank, so I made some improvements.

 

[ecomdesign]

That has to be the nicest fishroom sink ever!

 

[Bax]

That sink is a work of art!

Oh! And using the C channel & posts was the way to go as well, good choice!

 

[Padrino]

Thanks guys,
I have been spending A LOT of time looking for this fishroom video. Basically there was a big acrylic sump that was eurobraced and in the top pockets were these lids that fit perfectly between the bracing. Each lid had a 3/4" or so hole in the center so you could put you finger in to lift them out. Then there was a shelf with a bunch of MRC equipment and a Large MRC protein Skimmer. I'm almost positive i saw it on youtube but i can't find it for the life of me.

The sooner I find it the faster I get back on track *wink, wink* Maybe you guys know the video I'm referring too.

I have not touched the floor yet as now i have decided to totally enclose the mechanical equipment (furnance, water softener, HRV, Hot water tank and sump pump) in a separate room. I have complete one of the 3 walls, but before I can finish, I will break up the concrete and add a drain into the fishroom. The existing drain will stay and be enclosed within the mechanical room. During this process, I am trying to figure out how I can dump large amounts of water without pumping it into the sink or across the room to a drain.

The one option I was exploring was to install a washing machine type drain that would be where the other jacking post is located directly below where the hole is in the wall upstairs to feed hoses up. My main concern with this is I do not want to alter or possibly destroy my jacking foundation and I am 98% sure that my incoming water supply runs directly through this area. Puncturing this copper line would create a real nightmare.

Perhaps I can create one of these washing machine type drains and install it in the back wall in the narrow section. I will try and update the layout to visually describe the possible location.

Feel free to comment or suggest where you might install it if this was your place. This drain would come out of the floor vertically within a wall and then come out through the drywall say 3ft from the floor. This drain would be used for auto water change discharge or possibly RO/DI discharge.

What do you think?

 

[Padrino]

Things have not really progressed all that much recently as I have been doing work to other peoples tanks locally. However I did grab my new light fixture last week

I now have the following fixtures
Vertex Illumilux 4ft Marino blue
Vertex Illumina 260 4ft
Vertex Illumilux 4ft Marino blue

I will suspend the illumina from the ceiling and then from there I will fabricate a beautiful system in which i can mount my LED strip lights on either end. I will look very clean and Klassy!

 

[Padrino]

Some pictures of the raw equipment

 

[ecomdesign]

Too cool! Not to sure that the last 2 pics are, but the fixture looks sweet! Can't wait to see it all lit up.

 

[Padrino]

Mike,
They are flexible metal rods that i purchased from a company in New York. I will use those to suspend the LED strips off the main light.

 

[ecomdesign]

That is an amazing idea!!! Never seen/thought of that before. Good job man

 

[drummereef]

Nice! Can't wait to see the lighting come together. Might have to borrow that gooseneck idea.

 

[Padrino]

I will need to mount some aluminum extrusion or plate on the top face of the fixtures so that i can mount these properly however I still think it will look better than having 3 different sets of hanging kits. I will also be able to tilt the strips on angles and slightly lower

I will try and have all the machining and assembly completed some time next week

 

[Taqpol]

I'm so excited for this!