First Stages.....Building the panels.
This fish house was built some
years ago & was probably the 4th one I built. Although I have since built
a few more & built a retail fish store
this one is probably the best recorded in photographs.
Building a fish house is easy - making
mistakes is easy also. Sit down & plan it all out before you start. It's
easier to change a plan on paper than change a building.
What fish are you intending to breed? What size tanks? Have you allowed for
water, gas, electric, light (fish need plants - plants need light) in the construction?
Frames are constructed with 3 x 2". This gives a 4" Polystyrene wall.
These are clad with shiplap which lasts for years if properly & regularly
treated.
Total size of this project is 6 x 3 metres.
First frame of the back wall, treated with Cuprinol. This is safe with polystyrene. Creosote melts this material. |
If you treated the inside of the panels with creosote it would melt the polystyrene. Cuprinol is water based. |
Finished back panel fully treated. The bottom piece of shiplap should overlap the frame to allow the water the run off. |
More of the frame sections. |
