Under Construction!

Well after almost two year my dream is coming true. I am renovating two rooms in my house to make them one big herp room. When we bought this house it had two connected storage rooms built on to our connected garage. Their combined total size is 22'X16' after the dividing wall is taken out. This is going to be my base of operation, with cable high speed internet access, separate phone line and a little mini office for the business. I am so stoked. We started demo tonight. I got a few pics before I was told to drop the camera and grab a hammer.

P.S the reason I am doing this is my wife told me if I wanted any more snakes and before this breeding season I would have all "those animals" in snake room....OK HMMMM more snakes and a herp room all to myself No Problem :D :D :D :D

Here are some before pics of both rooms before. I'll get some of the during and after up as we go along this week

right side of Left hand room showing wall that is coming out on the right

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Left hand side of left hand room showing future work bench/computer desk/photo booth/ and rat breeding will go below

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Right hand room. Racks here we come. the left hand wall is coming down as are the shelfs (those things are like 3' or 4' deep)

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Cool stuff mayn, best of luck with your future endeavors. I checked your site too, a few spelling errors you might want to go back and review. Good luck



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See if they'll let you hold the camera a lil' longer. put off the suffering for a few moments more!:P We did a gut job on a kitchen a few months ago and I still haven't fully recovered from the mess and stress!!:(


Good luck with your herp room. We want during and after pics too!!:D

What an exciting time for you . . .good luck and keep us posted!

Thats awesome man. I cant wait for that day myself.... Happy DEMOLITION.... :salute:

Oooh, congrats Ed! I can't wait to see the finished product! Very exciting!

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Cool stuff mayn, best of luck with your future endeavors. I checked your site too, a few spelling errors you might want to go back and review. Good luck



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Yea there are a few things that I need to change.. Thanks for the luck.

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What an exciting time for you . . .good luck and keep us posted!

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Thanks Alice.

I really want that hospital feel to this room. The cleaner it feels the more I'll be incline to keep it that way.

Congrats Ed. I can't wait to see the finished product. That should be a nice sized room, but if you are like me, put some thought into how you will expand it, as I have run out of room in my first building, and had to build a second, and have almost outgrown that one too.

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Congrats Ed. I can't wait to see the finished product. That should be a nice sized room, but if you are like me, put some thought into how you will expand it, as I have run out of room in my first building, and had to build a second, and have almost outgrown that one too.

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Tim Thanks. Yea I have considered building a building in the back and eve enclosing our two car garage in time. Lets hope I grow that fast..

Great job :gj:

I need to hire you to finish my basement, my husband is slacking.

Well the sheet rock came out as did the other shelves.

Moving right along

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Looking good keep up the good work

Next comes the lights and the floors and the patching the walls and the paint :D.

Looking good. Did you say your tearing down that wall? Im not trying to question your demo/construction skills, but just make sure that breaker is turned off before messing with those wires! And I would save those studs for future construction. ;) Keep up the good (hard) work!

looking good! keep up the great work! :rockon:

Suh-weet! Are you using the studs as supports for racks, or doing away with them?

Oh what fun I'm missing out on!!:rolleyes: Really, I can't wait to see how it turns out.Must be nice to get a true snake room. I need a snake room that isn't my carpeted spare bedroom. But I don't have room to expand house. You should see how few guests we get when we inform the the guest bedroom doubles as a snake room. Had so few takers I was able to haul the bed out.:)

Well I will get pics up tomorrow but the studs came out and we got sheetrock with mud up so that just my little up date.. Any body wanting to help hit me up we can always use a spare set of hands.

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Well I will get pics up tomorrow but the studs came out and we got sheetrock with mud up so that just my little up date.. Any body wanting to help hit me up we can always use a spare set of hands.

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Sweet! More pics for sure! Id help, I need a ticket first.:P

And the Wall came tumbling down!!!

This is the room after the wall is out and with a progressive two days of sheet rock work Man I'm tired.

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here is the room after all the mud and tape is done and two coats of primer.

Now its just paint, hang my new better lights and move in :D

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Looks good! You can come over and do all that to my house whenever you want ;)

Looking good! It has a lot of natural light in there and should be wonderful for you and for your snakes. I'd think security though with all those windows (I'm the worrier in my family....can you tell that yet LOL). Can't wait to see the finished product. :)

So Ed...how about an update? Have you moved in yet?

No Sean not yet still got a couple of things to do to it before I do. My rats are in there right now cause it cooler but thats about it