I just moved my 180 in wall. I did not document the process here till after the fact so the whole process will take one post rather than the length of the project. Class Clown's in-wall motivated my own project. Made a couple trips to his house and brought the wife over as well to win her over. This is the original tank starting two years ago, a great display of live rock.
Here is a shot of the tank/hood/stand before the move.
Here is the location for the new tank room(which sits directly behind the existing tank(exhaust vent on the wall vents the hot air from the hood). I was glad to remove a couple of bushes as it reduces my pruning load.
The bushes have been removed and I have dug down to my gutter line to add a drain for the tank room.
The drain has been added, concrete forms set. I manually compacted the dirt the best I could using a variety of methods and added several bags of sand.
Here I am mixing/pouring the concrete. I laid a thick gauge wire mesh before pouring. I underestimated the amount of concrete I needed so my wife made an emergency run to Lowes for more.
Here is the finished slab, it's minimum depth is 4 inches near the drain. I have started the framing using 2'x4's and pressure treated for base plate. Walls are bolted into the floor.
Framing is finished and have now sheathed the shed using OSB. The chimney was not square to the house so things are out of square which makes everything a little more complicated.
Next added the roof, used 40lb tar paper which I also used for the moisture barrier since I am cheap, then the siding and the door which was a major pain. I had to special order a outward swing exterior door which took two weeks to get from Lowes. I framed the opening according to the specs on the order which ended up being 1 1/2" taller than the door. Lowes offered a refund but little consolation at this point so I added a 1" cedar plate to the floor to raise the door to fit the opening, the trim covered the rest. Finally roofed using presidential TL(a pain for the amature), added the trim, gutter and painted everything. Fortunately got it all done the day before the rains started. The external shed components took two weeks to complete(took several days off work during these two weeks). Had thought I could knock it out labor day weekend(I always underestimate projects).
The next steps lack a photo record, my wife apparently lost interest at this point. She actually was very interested in me coming back to the family as I was MIA for most of september. I next ran electrical, plumbing, insulated, drywalled, cut the hole in the wall and built the stand, loosely in that order. cutting the hole in the wall caused me the greatest anxiety. Fortunately I was able to talk to Trido who assured me there was little to fear cutting the hole in a non-load bearing wall. I cut out the existing 2X4 framing at the top plate and put in a home made beam(consisting of 5 2X4's screwed and glued together). I put two cripples under each end of beam, both of which I was able to recess into either end of the wall cavity so I did not lose any of my hole for the tank. My tank is 6' long and my room interior after dry walling and framing is just a few inches longer. Fortunately I had the space to spare, by luck not by planning. My elctrical was not so fortunate on one side where I located my outlets just behind the tank, I had assumed the house had 2X6" framing, but found out later it was 2X4, so the tank sat back two inches farther blocking half the outlets(u can see in the pic below I have caulked the inside outlet holes), ended up not needing them as I overprovioned outlets. My stand used pressure treated 4X4's on the back and the existing 2x4 framing in the front. Used 2X6 lumber for top of tank framing with perpindicular 2X4 framing every 16 inches, used lag bolts and screws to interconnect everything. Ended up losing sleep over the stand so added pressure treated 2X4 under the 2X6 for direct load bearing and added a second 2X6 in the back as insurance. I was worried when I moved the tank I would have to drill through the first 2X6 to accomadate overflows, crippling it. Fortunately I did not need to but cheap insurance. Topped it all with 3/4" plywood, painted and caulked everything with exterior paint. Also added a 2X4 on the very back edge which supports a built in 6" edge to the stand that I use to walk on when working in the tank.
Here is a shot of the tank/hood/stand before the move.
Here is the location for the new tank room(which sits directly behind the existing tank(exhaust vent on the wall vents the hot air from the hood). I was glad to remove a couple of bushes as it reduces my pruning load.
The bushes have been removed and I have dug down to my gutter line to add a drain for the tank room.
The drain has been added, concrete forms set. I manually compacted the dirt the best I could using a variety of methods and added several bags of sand.
Here I am mixing/pouring the concrete. I laid a thick gauge wire mesh before pouring. I underestimated the amount of concrete I needed so my wife made an emergency run to Lowes for more.
Here is the finished slab, it's minimum depth is 4 inches near the drain. I have started the framing using 2'x4's and pressure treated for base plate. Walls are bolted into the floor.
Framing is finished and have now sheathed the shed using OSB. The chimney was not square to the house so things are out of square which makes everything a little more complicated.
Next added the roof, used 40lb tar paper which I also used for the moisture barrier since I am cheap, then the siding and the door which was a major pain. I had to special order a outward swing exterior door which took two weeks to get from Lowes. I framed the opening according to the specs on the order which ended up being 1 1/2" taller than the door. Lowes offered a refund but little consolation at this point so I added a 1" cedar plate to the floor to raise the door to fit the opening, the trim covered the rest. Finally roofed using presidential TL(a pain for the amature), added the trim, gutter and painted everything. Fortunately got it all done the day before the rains started. The external shed components took two weeks to complete(took several days off work during these two weeks). Had thought I could knock it out labor day weekend(I always underestimate projects).
The next steps lack a photo record, my wife apparently lost interest at this point. She actually was very interested in me coming back to the family as I was MIA for most of september. I next ran electrical, plumbing, insulated, drywalled, cut the hole in the wall and built the stand, loosely in that order. cutting the hole in the wall caused me the greatest anxiety. Fortunately I was able to talk to Trido who assured me there was little to fear cutting the hole in a non-load bearing wall. I cut out the existing 2X4 framing at the top plate and put in a home made beam(consisting of 5 2X4's screwed and glued together). I put two cripples under each end of beam, both of which I was able to recess into either end of the wall cavity so I did not lose any of my hole for the tank. My tank is 6' long and my room interior after dry walling and framing is just a few inches longer. Fortunately I had the space to spare, by luck not by planning. My elctrical was not so fortunate on one side where I located my outlets just behind the tank, I had assumed the house had 2X6" framing, but found out later it was 2X4, so the tank sat back two inches farther blocking half the outlets(u can see in the pic below I have caulked the inside outlet holes), ended up not needing them as I overprovioned outlets. My stand used pressure treated 4X4's on the back and the existing 2x4 framing in the front. Used 2X6 lumber for top of tank framing with perpindicular 2X4 framing every 16 inches, used lag bolts and screws to interconnect everything. Ended up losing sleep over the stand so added pressure treated 2X4 under the 2X6 for direct load bearing and added a second 2X6 in the back as insurance. I was worried when I moved the tank I would have to drill through the first 2X6 to accomadate overflows, crippling it. Fortunately I did not need to but cheap insurance. Topped it all with 3/4" plywood, painted and caulked everything with exterior paint. Also added a 2X4 on the very back edge which supports a built in 6" edge to the stand that I use to walk on when working in the tank.
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