Reef Wholesale Epic Warehouse Build

[PFoster]

We actually have a total of three bay doors.
The third door is on our drygoods side on the other side of the door in the pic.
Thats where most of the trucks will pull up to.

The middle door we are converting to a drive up door so that we can pull our cargo vans in to make loading and unlading of livestock much easier.
Its only about 5 steps to carry it up right now.... but 5 more steps than i like to take when your unpacking +40 boxes!!

The "blue zone" (aka the area of the floor with blue paint you can kinda see in the pic is out workshop area.
We are building a nice tool bench area with all the tools up on a board.
1 chop saw for acrylic/pvc and one for wood.
Its annoying swapping the baldes back and forth so often you end up trying to take short cuts and not swapping the blades which is not preferable.

I am looking for a good deal dust collector too to keep this are even cleaner.

We are pretty much ALWAYS building something new and working on 3-4 building projects at once.
So ALL building project must remain here which will help keep the dust and mess to one area... in theory anyways

[PFoster]

Oh yeah, we have installed racking all across the wall the the right of the picture.

Water bins have also been installed but the setup isnt quite finalized yet so i will get a pic once it is

[tparsons]

We were at the London Frag Fest this weekend, so we didn't get any new renos done on the shop, but we did see some happy Raffle Prize Winners;


Raffle Prize - Alternative Reef Frag Pack


Raffle Prize - Alternative Reef Frag Pack


Raffle Prize - EcoTech Marine Coral Propagation Kit


Raffle Prize - Fauna Marin Non-Photo System (Clam, MinF, SeaFan, Min D) including Julian's Thing Feeding Tool


Raffle Prize - Fauna Marin Colour Elements Set 500ml

[tparsons]

Back to the warehouse build.
The office and livestock area needed to get a fresh coat of paint.

First Step.... figuring out how to mount the Go Pro


Second Step.... figuring out how to operate the Go Pro


Apparently my first attempt at programming the Go Pro wasn't entirely successfull as this is the only picture I have from our painting the livestock area



We had to do something about those glue covered floors in the livestock and office areas from the previous tile/carpet.

Patrick's dream floor was an epoxy coating, we found a local contractor who was able to complete the project, grind it down and epoxy it in under 3 days

Setting up to grind the floors to remove the glue;


Starting in the Office area;


Onto the Livestock area;




What a difference the 1st pass made!

[tparsons]

With the second pass...all the imperfections are starting to disapear!

[tparsons]

Once the grinding was complete, the epoxy coating process was really quick.

First they had to fill all the cracks,



The first layer


The second layer - these guys look like they are having a great time


And the final coat


Ready for the tanks to start coming in

Now this is where "Operation Move An Ocean" comes into full swing

[kevin S]

Any update? Is everything up and running ....



KS