Holiday Project - the Fish room

pickupman66 · Dec 23, 2012

SO>>>> I had a few projects this winter that I wanted to accomplish. First was to cut out some of the door frame and wall between the Kitchen and the Fish room. Here is the finished product on that. The reason for this change was so I could open teh freezer door all the way without pulling the fridge out 3 feet. BONUS, it made the fish room and kitchen feel bigger! BUT, there was a major gap in the floor where the wall used to be so.....

#2 was to rip out the carpet in the fish room and put down wood. the wife has wanted this for a while since when I drip saltwater on the carpet it can leave a spot. we matched the wood pretty closely and here is the evidence.

we just needed to finish around the stand...

Finished around the stand. Looks like the tank is just floating there on the floor. yet all this was done without moving the fish.

I was SOOO nervous when we got close to the tank. I was afraid i would hit the glass with the floor hammer. YIKES>>

pickupman66 · Dec 23, 2012

Merry Christmas from the fish....

and a FTS

11f150 · Dec 23, 2012

Looks really nice, good work

p woodard · Dec 23, 2012

Looks good how you like doing the hardwood floor we did it 2 years ago to the whole house

Rhino · Dec 23, 2012

Very nice job!

pickupman66 · Dec 23, 2012

Keith. it was hard work. especially when we got into a box with a bunch of warped boards. that was hard work having to stab a screwdriver into the sub floor and then use it to pull and pry the new boards into place because they were warped 1/4" over a 3' span. but me and dad got it done. NON-pneumatic floor hammer and all. my hand got tired of gripping that heavy mallet and all the bending over.

we do want to do more in the house like maybe our bedroom, but that is double this space and I dont look forward to it. I may do Berber in there instead.

p woodard · Dec 23, 2012

We had a pneumatic floor hammer and made it a lot easier and more fun too the wife loved using it

mixer911 · Dec 23, 2012

Looks good Lindsey, but I thought you built a "fish room" ie.. sump room. LOL. So did you not do under the tank?

Dowtish · Dec 23, 2012

mixer911 said:
Looks good Lindsey, but I thought you built a "fish room" ie.. sump room. LOL. So did you not do under the tank?

I think his garage is his "fish room".

pickupman66 · Dec 23, 2012

Rick, nope. Didn't move the tank. Just cut the carpet around it and all but a 2 foot stretch in the back. We added a bottom board all the way around (routed to match stand) then the Â¼round to make it look finished. The last board and Â½ extend back behind the tank 18" on each side to make it appear finished. When we sell the house I just pull the last 28" of wood and redo.

And yes.. sump still in garage.

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