This is project 5, from dgarnier, from reloading room to fish room

At our new house this room started off as the reloading room, but my fish hobby grow and started taking over the basement. So I reloaded 100+ cases of 12ga and moved the realoder and the supplies out of the room.

First I had to pull up all the carpet that was glued down. Then came the fun past cutting concrete. First try was with the 4.5" angle grinder and a diamond blade while this worked it didn't cut deep enough. The guy across the street has a gas powered brick saw..with a 14" diamond blade. While it made cuts fast the dust was brutal and made so I could only cut for 5 minutes or so and had to take a break. Then I had to break up the concrete, and I started with a sledge hammer until a buddy that had a hilty hammer drill told me about a breaker. It like a cross between a hammer drill and a jack hammer that run on 110. Home Depot rented then for like 30$ a day and it was well worth it. The tough part was digging the new sump, I hit clay just about 4" under the gravel. Plus the pit had to be 32" deep and once I got 25" deep the pit would fill with water. So this slowed things down quite a bit. Then came the task of taking all the concrete chunks and gravel upstairs. I enlisted the kid down the street to help with this part. Then I laid 3" pipe for the main drain line and 1'5 for the branch lines. Then I poured cement to fill the trenches in. Once the cement dried I moved on to putting a pitch to the floor, this way if there was a spill it would flow towards the center of the room and down the drain. I used thinset and 1/4 backer board strips around the edge of the room and then a 2x4 to pitch the floor to the center. Then we painted the room a nice cool blue. After that I laid tile down, and ran a 1/2 tile course around the edge as trim. This was phase one of the project, and allowed me to get the tank all in one room. The next project will be to plumb all the tanks to a fill system as well as a drain system to make week water changes a lot quicker.

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