First a rant. The city I used to live in at some point during me living there decided to change their no 6+ foot constrictor snake rule, to just no constrictor snakes at all. No grandfather clause or anything, just overnight I had a whole room of contraband. So obviously I needed to move to continue this hobby. Thankfully I was able to lay low and never have an issues with the city, but still took me a while before my once legal snakes were legal again.
So now the new house is a total fixer upper (exactly what I was looking for) and it happens to have a 2 car detached garage with an addition on the back of it. I decided I didn't want to raise rodents in the house this time, so I sectioned off part of the addition to be the new rodent room. Room will be 14.5ft x 15ft. I started by studding out the ceiling and built the wall to section it off. This also allowed me to jack up the sagging roof and give the "supports" a wall to sit on. While I was added made a loft above the room. Put up lights to see. Drywalled what wasn't finished, took out the window and studded that out. Started putting up shelves that will hold the water tubs.
My plans are to have valves in front of each water tub for easy fill up. Racks will roll under them and hook up. I want to do fiberglass panels on the wall for easy cleaning and I wont have to tape the walls lol. I'm not even sure on the flooring but I am thinking vinyl sheets just so it is smooth for rolling racks. I still need to bring gas and water over to it. Getting quotes for furnace and a/c. I am getting a big utility sink that will actually fit tubs in it. If i can't find a utility tub big enough, I swear to god there will be a bathtub in there. I also got a big pot growers exhaust fan. supposedly the carbon also cleans up the ammonia, so I am giving it a shot so my neighbors don't smell anything if the wind blows the wrong way.
I want to go all out on this and make these rodents convenient as possible to take care of. Any suggestions you can throw at me will be appreciated. Here what i have done so far:
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