has anyone built their own enclosures?

[blueberrypancakes]

Perhaps I can build my own...
What are some things to keep in mind while building an enclosure for your snake?
How is the heating done with a wooden, home-built enclosure? Do they hold humidity well?
Are there any good tutorials out on the interwebs that you used to help build it?
Is this a cost effective option?

[AJs Snake House]

There are many helpful tutorials online. We are building a rack that holds 11 large tubs and 11 hatchling tubs out of wooden doors from a thrift store heated with backheat flexwatt and a t stat.

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[blueberrypancakes]

If I am building the base for it out of wood, do I need to line the inside with something? What would I line it with?

[heathers*bps]

We use melamin (sp) for all our cages. The first wall units Chad built he used some other type of wood, I can't think of the name off the top of my head, and they are falling apart.
Everything he's made since then has been with melamin and he plans on rebuilding wall units with it. Talk about spending some money

[cecilbturtle]

i was thinking about building some caging too. i have been checking around on the safety of boat paint, epoxys, garage floor paints etc... havent found much info yet.

i am going to build some out of 3/4 inch plywood with the bottom half lined with formica and the rest of the interior sealed with some epoxy or boat paint.

[grits]

All i use is wood to build cages and you can heat them any way you heat any other cage. Heres some pics of the ones Ive done. http://acadianenclosures.weebly.com/photo-album.html

[cecilbturtle]

All i use is wood to build cages and you can heat them any way you heat any other cage. Heres some pics of the ones Ive done. http://acadianenclosures.weebly.com/photo-album.html

your work is pretty awesome! how do you seal the wood?

[grits]

I also own a cabinet shop so I use a cabinet grade plywood that i get prefinished. It is coated with a 2 part epoxy that is baked on. There is NO odor and you can clean it with just about any chemical with out damaging it. The other thing I do, like stated before, is line the cages with formica

[blueberrypancakes]

Holy crap, batman!! Mr. Grits, your cages are lovely! I love the stacked ones. It'll probably be out of my price range, but how much do you stacked ones for? You can send me a pm, I would really appreciate it.
How do you heat those? I don't see how you could use a UTH for each level, do you put it one the back?

[grits]

I have heated these with heat pads, heat cable, flex watt, and RHP. For the flex watt i cut a groove into the bottom of the floor and cover it with 1/8" plexi.