Insulating a rack? 🤔
Hello!
I am curious if anyone has experience insulating a rack to keep it in an uninsulated space.
I want to be clear, all my herps live inside my home and are happy and healthy. Any discussion of moving racks to my garage or experimenting with insulation strategies is currently hypothetical and would only be done with EMPTY enclosures.
I live in Pullman Washington and am hoping to be moving soon. I am planning to set up a reptile room inside my new home but am curious about the possibility of expanding into our garage. Most threads I have been able to find covering similar questions have all been geared towards much hotter areas like Florida. I am curious if insulating the racks themselves on all sides but the front might allow for ample temperature control? The humidity seems manageable and cooling seems manageable as well. The only big risks I see are the winter cold and potentially unusually high heat waves. In the case of a heat wave we could always bring the rack inside temporarily but if I were to set one up out there I'd like to keep it through winter.
I have a new ARS rack arriving soon and could experiment through the end of winter, but I will need to move some animals into it come mid spring so if I have any doubts they'll simply be inside with everyone else.
My home is a rental so I cannot make any permanent changes but we can modify the rack itself and potentialy work with temporary solutions. If I pursue this I'd like to keep my budget around 2-5k max but lower is always better!
The garage will primarily be used for storage and if we do move any reptiles out there no vehicles would be stored inside.
As a final reminder, all my reptiles live inside my home. The home I am looking into moving into has space for all my reptiles to be inside my home. This is all still hypothetical and I have no intention of putting my animals at risk by proceeding without ample research and testing.
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