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Maggie Cummings
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I just went out and took some pictures for you. Bob's shed is 12'X20'and it's in a pen I never measured. It's surrounded by a 3.5 solid cedar fence over 3/4 of it and 1/4 is a cinder block wall, 3 high with t-posts inside each. For convenience there's 3 gates in Bob's fence and it's all surrounded by MY garden beds.
There was a wooden garden shed on the property when I moved in. It has a plywood floor and we took solid sheets of insulation (it looks like Styrofoam) and covered that floor with 2 layers, then we put in another plywood floor. The walls are filled with that pink fluffy insulation and covered with plywood. The ceiling is that pink insulation and plywood. So as you can see his room is straight plywood walls, floor and ceiling. He sleeps in that box you see, and has for 8 years. He puts himself to bed every night faithfully at 6:30. There's a pig blanket with a rheostat in the box that he sleeps on every night. His basking light is 160 watts, I usually get 250 but couldn't find one this time. There's an oil-filled radiator heater made by DeLonghi, up on the wall so he can't get to it. It keeps the shed a steady 85 degrees all winter. My weather problem is the opposite of yours, we have 7 months of rain, freeze, snow and misery. It's only been 100 degrees once in the 8 years I've lived here. It rains and is gray for so long that people actually get a disorder called S.A.D. Seasonal Affected Disorder...otherwise known as depression. Reptile people in the know shine UVB bulbs in their face an hour a day.
Anyhow, I have a portable air conditioner I move into the shed when it's 90-95 or so. Kinda depending on the humidity. I also have a vaporizer in the shed that I run about 5 nights a weeks making sure he doesn't feel too dry. There's a doggie door with weather strips and a ramp that I open every morning sun, rain or snow. He is old enough, 16, and big enough 150 lbs. last Xmas; to make up his own mind to go out or stay in. He does go out in the snow and when he gets cold he goes back in and under the light to warm up. You can see from the tracks that he walks a lot.
The shed has a metal roof that is not a good idea for the summer and I have a picture with it covered with snow except in certain spots, so I'm thinkin it's time for more insulation there. The huge spiders probably balled the stuff up. He is stuck inside for days at a time in the winter but he seems to have adjusted and I try as much as I can to make sure he has control of how he wants to spend his days. Oh, he drinks from a big non-spillable dog water dish. I put a half a cat litter bucket there with water in it too because he does drink a lot, but so far all he's done is pull off the duc tape I lined the sawed edge with so he wouldn't cut his throat.
Guess that's all I can tell ya...
The tort table in Bob's shed has Queenie, my Hermanni, in it. Her and Bob never cross paths...
Oh heck, I forget to down load the pictures into my computer...be right back...
There was a wooden garden shed on the property when I moved in. It has a plywood floor and we took solid sheets of insulation (it looks like Styrofoam) and covered that floor with 2 layers, then we put in another plywood floor. The walls are filled with that pink fluffy insulation and covered with plywood. The ceiling is that pink insulation and plywood. So as you can see his room is straight plywood walls, floor and ceiling. He sleeps in that box you see, and has for 8 years. He puts himself to bed every night faithfully at 6:30. There's a pig blanket with a rheostat in the box that he sleeps on every night. His basking light is 160 watts, I usually get 250 but couldn't find one this time. There's an oil-filled radiator heater made by DeLonghi, up on the wall so he can't get to it. It keeps the shed a steady 85 degrees all winter. My weather problem is the opposite of yours, we have 7 months of rain, freeze, snow and misery. It's only been 100 degrees once in the 8 years I've lived here. It rains and is gray for so long that people actually get a disorder called S.A.D. Seasonal Affected Disorder...otherwise known as depression. Reptile people in the know shine UVB bulbs in their face an hour a day.
Anyhow, I have a portable air conditioner I move into the shed when it's 90-95 or so. Kinda depending on the humidity. I also have a vaporizer in the shed that I run about 5 nights a weeks making sure he doesn't feel too dry. There's a doggie door with weather strips and a ramp that I open every morning sun, rain or snow. He is old enough, 16, and big enough 150 lbs. last Xmas; to make up his own mind to go out or stay in. He does go out in the snow and when he gets cold he goes back in and under the light to warm up. You can see from the tracks that he walks a lot.
The shed has a metal roof that is not a good idea for the summer and I have a picture with it covered with snow except in certain spots, so I'm thinkin it's time for more insulation there. The huge spiders probably balled the stuff up. He is stuck inside for days at a time in the winter but he seems to have adjusted and I try as much as I can to make sure he has control of how he wants to spend his days. Oh, he drinks from a big non-spillable dog water dish. I put a half a cat litter bucket there with water in it too because he does drink a lot, but so far all he's done is pull off the duc tape I lined the sawed edge with so he wouldn't cut his throat.
Guess that's all I can tell ya...
The tort table in Bob's shed has Queenie, my Hermanni, in it. Her and Bob never cross paths...
Oh heck, I forget to down load the pictures into my computer...be right back...
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but that water pit there, how often do you need to refill that? I hate kiddie pools for Cheerio's yard, and was think about a nice big pit like that.
