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This morning I installed my Tucher Biergarten light as a porch light after SWMBO OK'd the location.

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I'm liking it. It's be great to see how it looks when I get home tonight.
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I have all the wiring done in the cold room and the door is now installed. It's an insulated steel exterior door with weather stripping all around. It's an air tight fit.
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Now I'm ready to begin insulating and installing the interior paneling, ceiling & floor of the walk in cooler. I hope to get it done this weekend.
 
Thanks. The other one just like it will be mounted to a post for the Biergarten right next to the Brewhaus.

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Ed, I think you shouldn't be allow to post on this thread without pictures... Quite a let down to see you as the last poster to find no beer porn...
 
Thanks. I was in there tonight putting up the cold room insulation. It dropped into the low 40s tonight and the Heat & Cool AC unit worked well keeping the area comfy even without the wall or ceiling insulation.
 
Edwort, are you keeping track of how much this thing is going to cost. i think alot of us have this on our christmas wish list.
 
tarheels said:
Edwort, are you keeping track of how much this thing is going to cost. i think alot of us have this on our christmas wish list.
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Kinda. I lost track at around $6K, but of that I have about $1K invested in tools which SWMBO has me using for other projects.

It's going to be much more than just a brewhaus. It will be a tap room and man cave as well.

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There must be some serious "neighbor envy" around your home, Ed. Half the reason I want to buy a house is so that I can do something like this, and stop having to brew in my buddies garage...
 
NoClueBrewMaster said:
There must be some serious "neighbor envy" around your home, Ed. Half the reason I want to buy a house is so that I can do something like this, and stop having to brew in my buddies garage...
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Actually, the neighbors are helping out and enjoying my beer. :mug:

SWMBO wants her garage, laundry room, kitchen, mud room, & living room back. :D
 
I can only imagine... I've seen your pictures of your neighbors helping with your build, but I'm sure when they get home at night, they say to their wives, "Why can't I build something like Ed is building??"
 
WOW! Just got thru this post (took 2 days to soak it up). Lots of good ideas for mine a couple years down the road. I plan on converting my sons newly poured basket ball court into one of these later on!

Thanks for all the time you put into these posts. That is one quality built man cave there!

Rob
 
EdWort said:
Kinda. I lost track at around $6K, but of that I have about $1K invested in tools which SWMBO has me using for other projects.
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According to Homebrewers Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or H-GAAP, that $1K of tools doesn't count to the final project cost. It's the same logic that allows one to state that homebrewed beer is cheaper... as long as you ignore the cost of all of the equipment used to make it :) Even if your tools were not generally applicable to other purposes, H-GAAP would have you covered.
 
dcunitedfan said:
According to Homebrewers Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or H-GAAP, that $1K of tools doesn't count to the final project cost. It's the same logic that allows one to state that homebrewed beer is cheaper... as long as you ignore the cost of all of the equipment used to make it :) Even if your tools were not generally applicable to other purposes, H-GAAP would have you covered.
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Tools purchased for any project like that are never figured into the bottom line. Also, tools bought after the fact that would have been "nice to have" for this project are deductible also.
 
Got most of the batting insulation put in today. Now I need to wire up the light. I decided to crank er up and see what she could do. Ambient temp was 65, but the room dropped down to 42 pretty quick and then the coils started to frost up. No fans yet.

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This side will hold 20 cornies and boxes of bottled homebrew and commercial barley wines.




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I still need to put the batting in the back wall. Not bad with no exterior wall insulation. Now comes two layers of foil backed R-Max closed foam insulation on each side of the wall before paneling.
 
Ummm, Ed - FYI - the vapor barrier goes on the warm side of the insulation. Otherwise condensate forms in the insulation & the wall rots. Without wasting time to rip it out, make some cuts in the kraft facing before you cover the walls inside, and put a plastic VB on the outside. Might want to change that exterior wall to foam (Blue or pink XPS sheets plus "great stuff" or other polyurethane spray foam to seal the edges of sheets), given the difficulty of getting a good VB on the outside with the sheathing already in place.

Oh - I missed the foil-backed to come. tape the joints in the outside-most layer, and don't tape the joints on the layers inside the cold room, and all should be good.
 
Ecnerwal said:
Ummm, Ed - FYI - the vapor barrier goes on the warm side of the insulation. Otherwise condensate forms in the insulation & the wall rots. Without wasting time to rip it out, make some cuts in the kraft facing before you cover the walls inside, and put a plastic VB on the outside. Might want to change that exterior wall to foam (Blue or pink XPS sheets plus "great stuff" or other polyurethane spray foam to seal the edges of sheets), given the difficulty of getting a good VB on the outside with the sheathing already in place.

Oh - I missed the foil-backed to come. tape the joints in the outside-most layer, and don't tape the joints on the layers inside the cold room, and all should be good.
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Thanks for the taping tips! The exterior wall has tyveck between the OSB and the Smart Siding, but I still have lots of work to do.
 
EdWort said:
I decided to crank er up and see what she could do. Ambient temp was 65, but the room dropped down to 42 pretty quick and then the coils started to frost up.
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I've been wondering about that.. The dew point right now is in the mid-30's, but in August when the dew point is 75*F outside you might have some frost problems. It might be a good idea to at least leave some space for a dehumidifier if one should become necessary down the road to ease the load on the air conditioner.
 
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this thread and look forward to every new entry. Thanks for sharing and taking the time to take the pictures and posting them on this great project EdWort!
 
sigmund said:
Tools purchased for any project like that are never figured into the bottom line. Also, tools bought after the fact that would have been "nice to have" for this project are deductible also.
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Deductable only if used on a rental property as a needed tool, trust me on this one after going thru a lucky me your a winner audit.
I have all the paperwork to back up my butt with two houses as rentals
that I have remodeled. Later the tools are mine to enjoy. I added a negative rake aluminum and brass 10" carbide blade to the Delta Compound Saw and was questioned by the IRS why as the saw already came with a standard blade. The standard blade worked for all the window trim inside as this is a 1905 house with lots of big wood trim inside. Some new sharp agent, I told him the aluminum trim window screens were a odd size back in 1905, bathroom and kitchen trim needed cutting with pictures added on the needed cuts. Now it cuts home hobby projects. Some materials for your own house you can pick a rentals address and write it off but this is small stuff.

I wrote off off the Miller 350 Tig and 251 Mig machine plus aluminum grinding wheels as these machines were used for my companies projects while welding at home on weekends. They ended up as free welders over a year time welding for them. That was lucky on my part. Now my home toys. I must add slightly used gas powered Stilh 14" diamond blade concrete saw used for the rental as a write off. A great tool when you need one.
 
Saccharomyces said:
...It might be a good idea to at least leave some space for a dehumidifier if one should become necessary down the road to ease the load on the air conditioner.
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In another thread I think I remember the builder of a cold room talking with someone about a dehumidifier and came to the conclusion that it is built almost exactly like the wall mounted air conditioners. In this other thread they decided not to go with one because the airconditioner was already a dehumidifier.j I think it was John Beer... So many threads, so little brain cells left... :drunk::D
 
I had the pleasure of seeing the progress in person today. It's even more impressive in person than the pictures show. I'm absolutely blown away by the project (and more than a little jealous).

Ed - Thanks for your hospitality today. You and your wife made my son's day.
 
BrewBeemer said:
Deductable only if used on a rental property as a needed tool, trust me on this one after going thru a lucky me your a winner audit.
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Actually, I was talking about SWMBO's bottom line, not the IRS. An attempt at humor gone wrong.
 
this is possibly the coolest thread i've read so far! man i wish i had a brewhaus. i mean, international house of foam....
 
Ed,

I have a dehumidifier I will donate to the project if you want. It is a 25 pint/day which should be more than adequate for that small space. It was use for about two months a couple of years ago and will not be needed again.

Jerry
 
Oh gee, thanks KopyKat, Now I have to send Ed something for the Taj MaHut!:D Otherwise my beer karma will be blemished!

There are probably quite a few Vicarious Hut Builders that would send equipment or decorations for the Taj Ma-Hut! Lucky he hasn't posted his address or he would be inundated with brew-trinkets;);)
 
KopyKat said:
Ed,

I have a dehumidifier I will donate to the project if you want. It is a 25 pint/day which should be more than adequate for that small space. It was use for about two months a couple of years ago and will not be needed again.

Jerry
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Thank Jerry. I appreciate the offer, but I don't think it will be necessary once I get the fans installed on the grill like John Beere did in his cold room. He ran into the same situation and the fans took care of the frosting problem. Since it is an AC unit it dehumidifies as it cools the air.
 

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