My massive chest freezer died last November and I've been limping along with ice bricks to regulate the temp since then.
I've had saved searches on eBay for coolroom panels and chest freezers since then, alas the freezers have been either too small, too old or in the wrong state.
A few coolroom panels have come up, but the cost has been over the top.
About 6 weeks ago I picked up some coolroom panels that I won on eBay, and a couple of coolroom doors.
And so the start of my fermentation coolroom journey began.
Here is a piccy of the raw used panels after getting them home.
The next couple of days were spent trying to workout what best use I could make of them.
After doing some modelling I came up with the following floor plan.
The next few weekends were spent cutting out the panels to form the coolroom.
This was very time consuming and rather labour intensive.
The coolroom is going inside my existing brewshed (read small garden shed).
As such I just needed to fabricate the floor, roof, walls and door in the backyard to get everything to fit together, then dis-assemble and permanently build it in the shed.
So the attached shots are of the components all cut out and loosely arranged as they will fit together.
There are a few minor trims required, but I left those until it is in was in its final resting spot and I got all my levels sorted.
I sourced a reverse cycle through the window air conditioner on eBay, so the major parts were sourced.
I just had to wait for a couple of fine days to pull everything out of my shed to put the coolroom in.
It hadn't been emptied since we bought the house.
I also had to move the water, the electricity and run a 15A circuit for the air conditioner.
The shed empty.
And then in went the coolroom.
There are still a few bits and pieces to finish off, but in the whole it is almost done.
A mamoth effort, but lack of cool temp controlled space will no longer be an issue.
Beers,
Doc
I've had saved searches on eBay for coolroom panels and chest freezers since then, alas the freezers have been either too small, too old or in the wrong state.
A few coolroom panels have come up, but the cost has been over the top.
About 6 weeks ago I picked up some coolroom panels that I won on eBay, and a couple of coolroom doors.
And so the start of my fermentation coolroom journey began.
Here is a piccy of the raw used panels after getting them home.
The next couple of days were spent trying to workout what best use I could make of them.
After doing some modelling I came up with the following floor plan.
The next few weekends were spent cutting out the panels to form the coolroom.
This was very time consuming and rather labour intensive.
The coolroom is going inside my existing brewshed (read small garden shed).
As such I just needed to fabricate the floor, roof, walls and door in the backyard to get everything to fit together, then dis-assemble and permanently build it in the shed.
So the attached shots are of the components all cut out and loosely arranged as they will fit together.
There are a few minor trims required, but I left those until it is in was in its final resting spot and I got all my levels sorted.
I sourced a reverse cycle through the window air conditioner on eBay, so the major parts were sourced.
I just had to wait for a couple of fine days to pull everything out of my shed to put the coolroom in.
It hadn't been emptied since we bought the house.
I also had to move the water, the electricity and run a 15A circuit for the air conditioner.
The shed empty.
And then in went the coolroom.
There are still a few bits and pieces to finish off, but in the whole it is almost done.
A mamoth effort, but lack of cool temp controlled space will no longer be an issue.
Beers,
Doc
