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#1 Vebas

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Posted 15 May 2011 - 05:40 PM

Some pics of the new quarantine room coming together smile.gif

Installing new drain pipe:
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Re-concreting and sealing floor:
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New American Oak stand:
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Moving stands from container to Quarantine room:
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Stands in their (rough) final positioning:
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Cheers
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#2 Cawdor

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Posted 15 May 2011 - 05:57 PM

Very interesting Pacco, why oak vs pine? Is it longevity?

#3 Wet Dreams

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Posted 15 May 2011 - 06:14 PM

Where abouts did you source the stands from?
Would be interested to get myself a few.

#4 spilo

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Posted 15 May 2011 - 06:23 PM

the oak stands turned out very nice pacco...... smile.gif

#5 Fish Antics

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Posted 15 May 2011 - 06:23 PM

Looking good.

#6 pacco

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Posted 15 May 2011 - 07:10 PM

QUOTE (Cawdor @ May 15 2011, 05:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Very interesting Pacco, why oak vs pine? Is it longevity?


Strength and longevity... I want it to be overkill and want to build it once and not have to replace it for at least 15-20 years. Also to have the same overkill in pine I'd have to use thicker wood, and especially going 4 tier we can't afford to sacrifice the height . We tested a piece of raw American oak by submerging it (with an airstone running) in salt water for 4 weeks. There was only swelling of a couple of mm and you could only scratch 1mm or so into the wood even though it looked sodden - the structural strength seemed pretty much undiminished. The stands we use have a few coats of polyurethane, are also waxed and will be sitting on 6-8mm PVC "feet" to keep the wood away from any water on the floor, I expect moisture to not be any issue and will recoat every couple of years anyway. This is actually the first "complete" system that I have replaced since taking over the business, so I am pretty excited to see how it works out.

The stands were made by the same factory that makes all our cabinet and wooden stand range. We can certainly make these to order, as well as getting full cabinets done in oak (and will probably bring a couple of stock 6x2 and 4x2 "high end" cabinet sets over in our next order to see if they sell.) These are by no means cheap, I was lucky to get mine when the factory was ordering in a 40' container of oak for another customers order (regular furniture) so got a better rate on the timber than otherwise would have been possible. We will have 4 more of the freshwater stand (4 tier and 3 wide to take 12 x 800mm x 650mm x 400mm tanks - weighs 210kg) coming in the next shipment as they messed the numbers up. To give you a rough idea on pricing we'd probably retail one of these for around $2800 - although would look at doing them significantly cheaper as they are a stuff up. Lead time on ordering these (and any other custom pine cabinet/stand) can be up to a few months at times depending on what other orders are coming over.

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#7 mtchye

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Posted 15 May 2011 - 08:11 PM

Clever stuff on the oak! Looking good wink.gif

#8 STEVEGREEN

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Posted 15 May 2011 - 08:11 PM

did you end up using the Mega Poxy on the floors mate ??

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#9 pacco

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Posted 15 May 2011 - 08:28 PM

QUOTE (STEVEGREEN @ May 15 2011, 08:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
did you end up using the Mega Poxy on the floors mate ??

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Yeah, two coats wink.gif

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#10 Ham

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Posted 17 May 2011 - 04:51 PM

I envy this quarantine room,
Pacco love the racks and room
well done you have come a long way.

Graham.


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Posted 19 May 2011 - 08:37 AM

Hey Pacco.

Looking great.. Cant wait to see the finished product..

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#12 Vebas

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Posted 18 August 2011 - 05:05 PM

Well it's been a long time coming - but we can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel now. Freshwater system is almost finished being plumbed up and the saltwater tanks just need to be strapped and plumbed. All going well we'll be importing again by the end of the month or early-mid Septmeber at the latest.

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#13 scottyhooton

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Posted 18 August 2011 - 05:10 PM

Lookin good mate biggrin.gif

#14 Fox

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Posted 18 August 2011 - 05:33 PM

Looks great Pacco. Job WD wink.gif

#15 Juls

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Posted 18 August 2011 - 08:09 PM

Looks awesome, hope the back breaking, concrete jackhammering, is going to be worth it.

Certainly looks the biz, now I just have to work out how to build that at home for 10K instead of 300... Hmmm :-S

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#16 Vebas

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Posted 18 August 2011 - 08:16 PM

QUOTE (Juls @ Aug 18 2011, 08:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Looks awesome, hope the back breaking, concrete jackhammering, is going to be worth it.

Certainly looks the biz, now I just have to work out how to build that at home for 10K instead of 300... Hmmm :-S

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It's been 3.5 months since I did the jackhammering and the bones in my fingers still hurt.... although at least not as much as they used to. Was a lot more than 10k, but thankfully a lot less than 300k tongue.gif

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Posted 18 August 2011 - 08:22 PM

Good to hear, I was quite surprised the day I come past and you where doing the jackhammering, mostly because I saw the contractor the day before, not because I didnt think you could! I know there is no way to get anything done faster than do it yourself!

Hope to get down for more bits and pieces soon.

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#18 rebeky23

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Posted 18 August 2011 - 09:08 PM

will you be importing ?

#19 pacco

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Posted 18 August 2011 - 09:13 PM

QUOTE (rebeky23 @ Aug 18 2011, 09:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
will you be importing ?


As soon as the refit as finished and AQIS has approved it we will be back to importing full steam smile.gif

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#20 procull

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Posted 19 August 2011 - 07:33 AM

QUOTE (pacco @ Aug 18 2011, 11:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
As soon as the refit as finished and AQIS has approved it we will be back to importing full steam smile.gif

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thats awesome
all ways great to have more options




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