Friday, May 01, 2009

Stone cladding and In wall fish tank entrance hall

Posted about this stone on boards earlier, drove to roscrea for it one day in the company car! Wanted 12sqm thought "ah ill fit that in no hassle" i got there and they asked "what ya drivin" then started laughin "well im taking it after driving down here" the front of the car never touched the road on the way home :) the cladding cost €39.99 from http://www.wesellstone.com/PageProducer.aspx?Page=1. We put it up ourselves using tile adhesive looks great will post pictures of it soon. The fish tank then was a major piece of engineering and design we decided to custom build it between myself and my brother. Its made out of acrylic plastic, all large tanks are these days, and fixed with a solvent cement from america http://www.duboisi.com/diy/BNdiytank/bndiytank.htm we followed this guys instructions. Got the plastic delivered from meath have enough to make another tank still had to buy the full sheet. Put it all together and let it set for a week and filled and tested it, started to leak and then creak. We had to get a steel frame made up for the outside of it for support, stainless steel looks good filled it and tested it for three weeks no sign of anythin!You can now see from the entrance hall into the office through the tank it looks great makes for a good feature. Picture of the tank under construction!

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