Reptile building???

[Denial]

Does anyone here keep there animals in buildings outside instead of rooms in there houses? Me and my fiance are looking at a house now that we are thinking about moving into and it has a building that would be perfect for my animals I think. I just have to figure out how to get it working with heat and air and everything. I was just wondering if anyone else does this and could give me some pointers. thanks

[RebelYell83]

for heat i would say a couple oil heaters,and a window unot for a/c..eugene besset has his in a concrete building,but were in fla so always warm enough for heat cable to do ya

[Denial]

Yea Ive been trying to find out an estimate for a whole central heat and air system but its a very large building lol. So I dont think its going to be cheap

[Patrick Long]

May be a little on the cheap side, but they make those IN-WINDOW coolors, for the hot months, and oil heaters in the cold???

[Rakk101]

How tall is the building, how long, is it insulated? Things like this would factor in to what you can do.

If you have a tall building a window unit would not work because of air flow, they make portable AC/heating units that you can run round flex duct.

If it is like an insulated garage or shed a window unit would work great with an oil heater.

[Denial]

Well there are no windows in it at the moment. We were thinking of adding one or two though. It is a very large building Ill get pics of it once it stops raining. It is insulated but I was thinking of maybe insulating it once more and adding drywall to keep it more insulated. Another problem is it has concrete bottom so I would have to raise the cages way up off the floors to keep the floor from making them cold.

It would be amazing though to get my house back lol. If I didnt have reptiles inside we would have SO much more room

[RebelYell83]

instead of raiging them a lot,raise them 3 incheas,and put a piece of 3 inch heat tape on the floor,,this way you dont have cold floor directly under your caging

[Patrick Long]

instead of raiging them a lot,raise them 3 incheas,and put a piece of 3 inch heat tape on the floor,,this way you dont have cold floor directly under your caging

Or 11" on a piece of 3/4 melamine

[Rakk101]

Well there are no windows in it at the moment. We were thinking of adding one or two though. It is a very large building Ill get pics of it once it stops raining. It is insulated but I was thinking of maybe insulating it once more and adding drywall to keep it more insulated. Another problem is it has concrete bottom so I would have to raise the cages way up off the floors to keep the floor from making them cold.

It would be amazing though to get my house back lol. If I didnt have reptiles inside we would have SO much more room

I am a project manager for a commercial heating/air conditioning company here in Chicago. We do alot of schools, police stations, fire stations all that kind of junk. Maybe I can give you some ideas when you get some pictures up

[Denial]

Rakk that would be great if you could. Im actually going to try to go over there tonight and get pics of it to post. I would love to be able to turn this into a building for my animals not only would it give me a lot of extra room in the house it would also make it possible for me to expand my collection. But I need to make sure the temps can be maintained at all times before I put them outside.

It would also get the inlaws off my back about the snakes eating there grandkids!