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Hello all!
I'm starting the planning for my new tank build and accompanying fish room but there are quite a few things I need to solve first. I have two major issues however with my room that I would like some advice on for both safety and generally staying up to code. Luckily the room is currently unfinished, so its kinda easy to make large changes at the moment.
1. In my current room there is a indoor electrical breaker panel for the house. While I don't intend for there to ever be any water flying around, this is a room full of tanks, water, filters, ect... anything can happen. What can/should I do about this? I feel like it would be insanely expensive to move this panel to another room, but is that my best choice? Thoughts? waterproof panel cover?
2. I have the houses main sewer drain running down through this room, so adding a sink will be easy. A drain in the floor however will be very difficult because this is a basement floor made of concrete. I do however have the sump and sump pit in the room for the houses foundation. My hope would be to use this as the emergency drain (lets say a seal broke or a float stuck) and waterproof the walls and floor to protect the rest of the house. Naturally I would never normally put water into the sump pit, but is it safe to keep as a emergency drain for the room rather than installing a expensive floor drain into the sewer? Could the water damage my foundation? There is a float activated electric pump in the pit that drains onto the street...
I would really apricate any advice on this as I start to plan out this aquarium.
Thanks!
I'm starting the planning for my new tank build and accompanying fish room but there are quite a few things I need to solve first. I have two major issues however with my room that I would like some advice on for both safety and generally staying up to code. Luckily the room is currently unfinished, so its kinda easy to make large changes at the moment.
1. In my current room there is a indoor electrical breaker panel for the house. While I don't intend for there to ever be any water flying around, this is a room full of tanks, water, filters, ect... anything can happen. What can/should I do about this? I feel like it would be insanely expensive to move this panel to another room, but is that my best choice? Thoughts? waterproof panel cover?
2. I have the houses main sewer drain running down through this room, so adding a sink will be easy. A drain in the floor however will be very difficult because this is a basement floor made of concrete. I do however have the sump and sump pit in the room for the houses foundation. My hope would be to use this as the emergency drain (lets say a seal broke or a float stuck) and waterproof the walls and floor to protect the rest of the house. Naturally I would never normally put water into the sump pit, but is it safe to keep as a emergency drain for the room rather than installing a expensive floor drain into the sewer? Could the water damage my foundation? There is a float activated electric pump in the pit that drains onto the street...
I would really apricate any advice on this as I start to plan out this aquarium.
Thanks!