Indoor room for my large torts

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I here you about the insulation , my house was built in 1886 !
Here is the electrical plan and general layout of the room . We are putting in the ceiling today, R30 insulation and 5/8 x4x8 plywood . The walls will go on next, with 3/4 “ foam board and 5/8 plywood on the exterior walls.
Hopefully be ready to seal with flex seal in a couple of days, then my pond liner and hored mats .
Just bought $1200 worth of horse stall mats at tractor supply ?
I installed a 290 cfm exhaust fan to change out some air , I have it run to a timer and probably run it a couple of times a day for 5 or 10 minutes when /if needed.
 

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Walls going in today, got my heater hooked up temporarily to see how it will do
 

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Heater has a built in thermostat, I am testing it out now. If it doesn’t work like I want it to, I will install a thermostat mounted lower on the wall that will control a relay to the heater. I have a fan to keep the air moving in the room , to try to keep the temps throughout the room uniform -ish
Here are some pics of the room ready to be sealed
Also a screen capture from my Wyze cam
 

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I finally have everything I need to finish the room , painter will be here Wednesday, probably be done in 1 day , then I will apply the flex seal on the floor and around the walls, I’ve got a pond liner that will go down next and horse stall mats to cover floor and 2’ up on the walls. I’ve got 2 - 27x36” Kane heat mats, 2- 120w RHPs, 2- LED grow lights, 2- 48” T5 UVB lights, 8- 65w incandescent bulbs, 10kw electric heat system, exhaust fan with 6” input and exhaust . This is a major operation ?
 

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. . . and definitely expensive. That Flex Seal is quite expensive per can. I can't imagine buying it for a whole floor!
 

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Looks fantastic!
I wish I had a decent sized basement or garage for my tort.
 

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Painting is done ! It is ready to trim out now . I will install the lights , pond liner and horse stall mats in the next couple of days. Should have it ready for Jackson and General in a week or so
 

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32 mats on one trip, that is some serious weight back there!
 

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They have been in the back of my truck for a week, I don’t want to unload them until they are going down, it is very hard to handle them
 

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They make a grabber/handle for dragging them around. It helps quite a bit.
 

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Pond liner is in. ? horse mats about to go down !
 

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