Garage with Insulation

Auntie-Dolly

Wouldn't it be easier to insulate the tanks in some way?

Rolandtheroadie

controversy wrote: »

There will be heat of course but its just a matter of seeing which build is best.

Building an 8m by 4m just now.

The base was there, although a quote for a new base was £2000 for a 4 inch reinforced slab. Laid on top of the present base, it was to make sure the surface was true for the prefab garage I'd thought about (around £12k all in).

Costs to date, rounded up, are £600 for the materials for the walls including lintels, £600 for the roof trusses and £600 to the brickie

Electric roller door and side door look to be about £1500 from a garage door firm, roof/gutters/downpipes/finishings are an unknown quantity just now but I did have a £3500 quote. Hoping £2k max as I'm on good terms with a roofer. £1000 to get it roughcasted.

So £6300 hopefully. Then I'm planning to sheet/insulate it using a wooden framework and connect it up to the home central heating system for heat.

phil24_7

controversy wrote: »

Ah pretty nice. What you growing in your tanks? Carp of some kind?

1 was a quarantine tank and the other was a growing on tank. Then when my pond started to fall to pieces I had to put all my fish in (some koi, some carp, some goldfish and some of unknown origin!). I had to get rid of them in the end and am currently in the process of building a new pond so I an reinstate the shed IBC's!

Regards
Phil

prosaver

god ..fish tanks and garages
theres more to worry about .............

phil24_7

Don't let the OP keep you from worrying about other stuff then!

Grenage

Why not go for a standard pond, and deal with the slow winter months through alternative means - garden composting, perhaps?

Trying to make one solution for the year round is a bit of a square peg into a round hole. I'm sure the fish would also prefer to be outside.

controversy

Grenage wrote: »

Why not go for a standard pond, and deal with the slow winter months through alternative means - garden composting, perhaps?

Trying to make one solution for the year round is a bit of a square peg into a round hole. I'm sure the fish would also prefer to be outside.

Because Fish Ponds freeze and frozen water cannot be filtered so well.

Now the reason why I need flowing water all the time is because of the following:

1. You transfer the IBC water contents into a gravity fed vortex filter. This takes out a lot of the fish poop and turns it into fertilizer.

2. The water then goes into a surface area tank which allows bacteria to turn the fish ammonia from the poop into plant food.

3. This liquid plant food is then pumped into PVC pipes where it feeds plants, algae and duckweed.

4. The water then flows to a collection sump where it is pumped back into the fish tanks.

The other thing is if you have a hobby for keeping Koi Carp your know that the slightest thing can kill them. In order to prevent this I intend to put a lot of sensors to monitor the fishes environment followed by electrical redundancies to make sure the air saturation of the water never falls below a set amount.

These are highly prized living organisms at the end of the day and not some goldfish which are expendable.

I do appreciate the whole permaculture movement but one place where it doesn't work is in small spaces.

So I need a insulated garage. This is what I will be saving up for next hopefully.

Davesnave

controversy wrote: »

These are highly prized living organisms at the end of the day and not some goldfish which are expendable.

The usual aquaculture set up involves eating the fish as well as the plant produce.

Are you planning to sell the koi?