Building a Shed. Need some help

BSBrewer83 · May 16, 2012

bigljd said:
I brew in a shed (and have an electric brewery so I've got a 30 amp 10/4 wire running out to it). A simple solution for the water supply is to buy RV hose (its a white, lead free hose for potable water) from Sprawlmart, I think they're made by Camco. Sprawlmart also carries a Camco inline active charcoal RV water filter that screws onto the hose. I built a ball valve shutoff for the hose, so on brew day I just run the hose out to the shed and have water on demand. I filter the strike and sparge water with the inline filter. At the end of the day, roll up the hose and store it in the shed. Just be sure to get all the water out of the hose in the winter so it won't crack if it freezes.

Excellent advice because I will be running a hose.

CidahMastah · May 16, 2012

yeah I have been thinking about getting one of those hoses to fill my 25g hlt from my . I will have to check that out!

wilceaser · May 16, 2012

bigljd said:
A simple solution for the water supply is to buy RV hose (its a white, lead free hose for potable water) from Sprawlmart, I think they're made by Camco. Sprawlmart also carries a Camco inline active charcoal RV water filter that screws onto the hose. I built a ball valve shutoff for the hose, so on brew day I just run the hose out to the shed and have water on demand. I filter the strike and sparge water with the inline filter. At the end of the day, roll up the hose and store it in the shed. Just be sure to get all the water out of the hose in the winter so it won't crack if it freezes.

I do the same thing except for the filter.
Works great, and sure beats carrying water bottles.

dbhokie · May 16, 2012

Yeah here in VA, I actually run water lines and spigots everywhere...but our frost line is only 18 inches..in Colorado, it may take you more time with a shovel

dbhokie · May 18, 2012

I was doing some work yesterday, running some electric and repairing an AC Unit...it occurred to me that the fan on AC Unit compressors, is a perfect exhaust fan, very powerful. (If you are looking to do it cheap, maybe you could find an old AC Unit with a working fan).

BSBrewer83 · May 18, 2012

dbhokie said:
I was doing some work yesterday, running some electric and repairing an AC Unit...it occurred to me that the fan on AC Unit compressors, is a perfect exhaust fan, very powerful. (If you are looking to do it cheap, maybe you could find an old AC Unit with a working fan).

Interesting... I have an old ac unit sitting in my closet. I was actually thinking of using that in the shed to cool the place down in the summer but maybe I could pick one up for cheap on craigslist.

Vernacular · May 18, 2012

I have two through the wall exhaust fans (110volt) that could safely run off an extension cord. 10 bucks each pluss shipping. You are gonna run the cord... you need lights out there for when you are "hiding" from SWMBO.