Gotta fair bit more done over the last week. All the guttering and roof is on, and it's fairly well weatherproof. Built myself an 8' by 3' steel workbench with a 2" timber top. Cleaned out all the crap laying in the shed and rolled out the carpet, cut the rubber mat for the wet area, and started moving in and fitting out.
Used the gantry for the first time to get my workbench in. Probably weighs 150 kilos, but i swung her in, swivelled it round, and lowered it down where it goes all with one hand
Got my drums and bins full of grains and mollasses stored under there, i'll have to take a piccie, just didn't realise i had so much fermentables piled up waiting for the space to play with em
Installed my spy window too. It's a flash bit of gear, i bought it brand new from a second hand dealer for not much years ago to go in a camping canopy i was building for my ute and never used it. Dunno if it's out of a caravan or an armoured car, but it's smoked one way glass on the outside and lexan on the inside. There's a sett of slimline venetians inside with a little knob in the shed to operate em. looks great.
I've also been thinking about cooling water. i have a 500 litre tank of rain water just outside the door that i plan to pipe in, and use my existing wheelie bin inside as a float tank holding an extra 100-200 litres, but i'm a little worried about going from my coil in a bucket with static water to relying on a pump to keep going.
Atm i can go into the house for 20 mins on a strip run and do other things in the yard ect, while periodiclly checking on things, swapping bottles ect without worrying about leaks or pumps blocking/stopping ect ect.
I was thinking if i set a 60-90 litre drum up on a shelf near the roof, pumped up to it and gravity fed through the condensor, at least it'd give me some time to notice a problem and the water level in the top drum dropping.
This is gunna complicate the plumbing though and make it more difficult to get the water back into my tank outside. Don't really know which way to go at this stage.
Maybe i could just use an electronic thermometer and hook a loud alarm to it?
Could do with some suggestions.
The shed should be operational in a few weeks.
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