New system build......300g

[skylord]

Not nearly as far behind as you might think.

Scott

Originally Posted by untamed

Ha..ha...the second...

Interesting to see the early phases. Of course, we all know that this thread is waaaayyy behind where the tank is at now.

B

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by Jason McK

Sweet. I think your the first to have your house designed and built around your Tank plans. LOL

J

I just finished a new place as well in Calgary. Cedarglen Homes were actually interested in the project and helped me out.

Originally they poured an 8x3 footing for me in the ground to support my 3-400 gallon upstairs. In the end the engineers did the hard work with prelam beams only and never used the footing.

Here's the footing which i have now put my own jackposts w/ 3 2x10s on about 2 feet from the prelam beams to even further avoid main floor flex. It's all tile upstairs so flex is bad:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixhend...7601383931177/

And here's the beams. They normally use 2 for my house plan and certainly not 2 x 14's! The originally put 4 in but when I was concerned they hadn't used the footing I paid for they toosed in another, There are 5 here. The cost to do all this was really minor compared to what it'd run you later on...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixhend...7601383931177/

Anyways not trying to hijack here...this is usefull info for anyone seeing your thread and thinking of building!

Brett

[skylord]

One of the upgrades we went with was a steal I-Beam but I couldnt find a pic of it.

Scott