Leo Building

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mcvancleave

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Will be a slow thread but i have done some progress to my building. I have run my electricity to the room and added a additional grounding rod to the room for added safety. Wired the room and started putting in insulation. Slow progress but here are a couple of pics

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fender120993

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You plan to make a room with pure leos?

Sounds pretty awesome
 
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ponylover86

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You gotta start somewhere! Can't wait to see it finished!
 
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mcvancleave

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it has taken alot of $$$
so far

A package of r-19 need another
100 foot of outside 8/2
90 foot 3/4 conduant
3 90 degree angles
1 panels box
7 breakers
8 foot ground rod with clamp
2 junction box
10 wall boxes with outlets
150 foot of 10/2 ( each wall on its own breaker)

stioll got to wall it finish insulating it and build racks great plan worked out on paper hope it does not take long.
 
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Vyeguy

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how big is the room/shed?
I really like the idea i was hoping to turn the spare room next to mine into a Herp room then my sister moved back home with her baby. bye bye herp room
 
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mcvancleave

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the inside is 5 x 7 or 5 x 8 i will remeasure tonight when i get home. this will open alot of room in the house. I would love to have something bigger but the need is not there at this time. If that happens i might have to start building again
 
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Vyeguy

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how many leos are you planning to house in the building? i am guessing your going to be building rack systems for the walls?
 
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mcvancleave

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nort sure at the total numbers, right now i have 20 adults housed on my rack so 1 wall could well hold that so guess i will see. i will build a rack on the walls and show that as well. i will post my current rack setup. i am going to copy what i got now, i am VERY happy with the turn out of my first rack and hpw well it works
 
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mcvancleave

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all the walls will be up in 7 days max. now... i need to figure out what kind of rack system to build. I think i am going to have to install a air condtitioner out there to keep the inside temp from getting too hot other than that i am so close.
 
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mcvancleave

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The walls are all up I ran power outlets enough to put able heat in any format I wish. Now I need to build my racks. I am looking at 11 shelves on the back wall 7 feet across. Now the money issue hit looks like the back wall will cost me about $250 in heating from bigappleherp.com which was the best price overall (if there is a better place let me know) I am doing to use 3” flex watt . I used insulation as you can see from the old pictures and wondering now if I should use a small air conditioner to keep a constant temperature in the building. Been a little pricey project but worth it for me.
 
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mcvancleave

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updated pics

Here are some pictures as the outer frame of my rack starts to come up. I still need center support and some other stuff but I thought updated pics would be nice. I am no carpenter but I did it all myself I am a electrician I can do that but the other not so great so a work in progress

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project1

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sweeeeettt im hoping to build a shed of some sort for my lizard collection pref an attachment to my garage. but sweet rig man
 
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mcvancleave

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DONE

I am done with the room and half of on shelf wow if feels good. looks awesome seeing those tubs in that rack. only built haff the rack so far been raining here for past 8 days so still got some in the house but will get them all out of the house by this weekend. just got off the phone with the department of agriculture for my inspection and i am all set. did i say how good it feels
 
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mcvancleave

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When I get all my tubs in and the rack with all the shelves on it I will take e a picture of it. As a totally done project, well 1 wall done. Put 6 tubs in there and watching heat and humidity and such making sure there are no problems. The department of agriculture came out and inspected me so I passed and got my licensed covered.
 
mainelygeckos

mainelygeckos

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congrats on passing inspection not that I thought you wouldn't lol i t looks great and look forward to finished project! :D
 
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