who has gone into the garage?

[lazarus]

i am fed up trying to fit everything in my lower cabinet under the DT and its way too messy. my tank sits against a wall that separates house from garage. i think i can drill through here and put the sump, chiller, electrical, etc in here. i know i can handle the plumbing but have never breached a wall like this before. anyone done this and any
advice you can lend? if i screw this up....."she" will NEVER forgive me. :help:
(ps - also posted on new hobbyists thread)

 

[fgcu14]

The first step it determining what your wall is made of. If its your garage, you will probably have concrete blocks.
You can cut the hole in two ways. 1 is to rent a concrete saw from your local rental shop and go to town. 2 you can use a concrete drill bit. I would use the drill (less mess and less room for error)
I would try and keep as much inside as possible because of the temprature change of the garage and the inside of a home.

 

[hardcrab67]

The concrete should be below your floor, If you have to step down to your garage floor, then the block should only be 2 courses high. The house floor joists sits on that. You should check for electric receptacles on both sides of the wall. The wire is run down the 2x4(behind the drywall) that the recp box is nailed to. If you have multiple boxes, They may have run the feed parallel from one box to the next. Stay above the box and 16" either side and you shouldn't hit any wires. Wall studs are set at 16" on center, so you can allow a couple of inches to miss the stud. Safe way cut the breaker off at main box to those receptacles. Newer homes have phone,fiber optic, etc.- should all run up to the attic along the stud the box is nailed to. Hope this helped.

 

[acrylic51]

I've converted my 2 car garage into my dedicated fishroom and ran running water out to the garage and ran 4 dedicated circuits out to my fishroom just for the new system

 

[lubeck]

I took all plumbing down to the basement... its less likely to have large temperature swings unlike a garage. It has worked out very well so far.