Building upgrades

[chromeitout]

I saw Freakie_Frog's post about his new building (nice I must say!). So, I decided to post about what's been going on around here.

I had a 200 amp service upgrade done on my old house (finally) about 3 weeks ago. So, now I have the power to replace the rediculously small overhead wire that ran to the building with a 2ga. underground service wire and a 100amp subpanel. This upgrade was needed to add an a/c unit in the rodent building (going in tomorrow). While the trench was open it seemed to be a good time to run water to the building, too (no more dragging water hoses around). I'll have to wait on the water heater for a month or two because they are a bit pricy. Well, all of this has been done and it was time to fill in the trench and I thought... why not go ahead and run cable tv (for a little entertainment on cleaning day), and cat5 so that I can network my computer out there with the one inside to update and access my rodent/reptile records. Then, why not go ahead and run more coax to install the security cameras I've been wanting...

Don't you just love how small projects turn into big ones. I just wanted to temp control the rodent building, but ended up with running water, cable tv, computer networking, and security. I'll post some pics in the next few days as I finish up.

[nixer]

I saw Freakie_Frog's post about his new building (nice I must say!). So, I decided to post about what's been going on around here.

I had a 200 amp service upgrade done on my old house (finally) about 3 weeks ago. So, now I have the power to replace the rediculously small overhead wire that ran to the building with a 2ga. underground service wire and a 100amp subpanel. This upgrade was needed to add an a/c unit in the rodent building (going in tomorrow). While the trench was open it seemed to be a good time to run water to the building, too (no more dragging water hoses around). I'll have to wait on the water heater for a month or two because they are a bit pricy. Well, all of this has been done and it was time to fill in the trench and I thought... why not go ahead and run cable tv (for a little entertainment on cleaning day), and cat5 so that I can network my computer out there with the one inside to update and access my rodent/reptile records. Then, why not go ahead and run more coax to install the security cameras I've been wanting...

Don't you just love how small projects turn into big ones. I just wanted to temp control the rodent building, but ended up with running water, cable tv, computer networking, and security. I'll post some pics in the next few days as I finish up.

i hope you put it below the frost line or the water pipe will freeze...
sounds like you got the workings of a great setup.

[chromeitout]

I did, 2ft deep. I live in SC so no super harsh winters here. It's deeper than the line from the meter to my house.

[nixer]

I did, 2ft deep. I live in SC so no super harsh winters here. It's deeper than the line from the meter to my house.

good i didnt see where your from around here it would have to be atleast 3' down for it to not freeze.

dont forget to update with pics once its all setup

[Egapal]

Don't you just love how small projects turn into big ones. I just wanted to temp control the rodent building, but ended up with running water, cable tv, computer networking, and security. I'll post some pics in the next few days as I finish up.

When I first read this I was like yea, yeah, yeah, thats what I would have done too. Then I thought about it some more and I probably would have not run the one cat5 for a security camera and instead put another cat5 (or a 4 port hub and used the first cat5 cable) for a network camera. Then I thought well I get all my tv over the Antenna anyway so the other coax is out. Plus even if I did have cable at some point I would just stream the TV from my media server to the computer out there. Congratulations, its nice when a plan comes together.

[chromeitout]

Well I actually added a few more cables than I mentioned. Along with power and water I ran 2 cat5's, 4 rg6 coax, and 1 rg11 coax. May never use all of them, but they are there anyway.

The a/c is now in and working. The water is ran to the rodent side and after lunch the utility sink and drain will be installed in the reptile side and water ran to it. Who knows, I may actually be able to get something done out there after today. And by the way I'm taking donations for a small flat screen tv to hang on the wall.

[suzuki4life]

I'll post some pics in the next few days as I finish up.

you better!!!!


this is like talking dirty to most of us.

My rats are glad to have heat in the winter.

If propane goes up this winter, they better learn to cuddle