I have been busy building a new fishroom. What started as the idea for a fishroom has kind of turned into a house extension.
I took advantage of the extra patio area I have so the floor and roof where already there, but the person who built the patio was an absolute shonky bugger and I have had to fix many leaks and design flaws to ensure the room stays perfectly dry and that the roof didnt eventually collapse!
Main aims of the fish room design are:
Minimual electricity usage and automation.
Plan to use as much natural light as possible.
Trickle filters covering multiple tanks to reduce number of pumps and heaters.
Double insulation in roof and walls to maximize heat retention in winter and keep heat out in summer.
Automated water change system.
Many thanks to Ronny who has helped me alot with this project.
The patio area
First put solar triple core sunpal panels up for skylights, I want to get as much free light as possible while keeping room insulated. Ronny is putting it up here.
Putting up roof and outer wall, couldnt fit other half of the roof yet as I was waiting on custom brackets to attach the patio roof to the house rafters because the shonky patio builder had just attached the patio roof to the outer gutter facia with 2 little screws.
Roof Brackets fitted and roof insulation completed, R1.5 polyacrylic batts and then 75mm thermal panels used to insulate the roof.
This 2.4meter window has been removed to create 2 doorways, a shoppers entry on the garage side and then an entrance to the fishroom, you can see the back of the 9 foot tank, which will be moved into the new room when its ready and thus opening the doorway openings.
Back wall is up seperating the garage from the fishroom.
The view from the backyard, the large window you can see facing the backyard is the one removed from the side of the house, sliding door fitted too. I had a bunch of spare bricks that the original builders left behind, so I figured that using them in this highly visible area would make the room look more like part of the house, I was about 60 bricks short to do it, and the brick style is obsolete, but luckily I managed to track down the last 66 bricks in existence.
View of the sidewall between the boat garage and fish room.
View from the inside facing the backyard, the brick areas will be panelled with 75mm thermo panels for insualtion
Next step I plan to gybrock the entire room, I may possibly tile it too, tiling is still not decided, and then I will start on the tanks and plumbing.
Cheers
Den
