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Coming up a detailed look at the custom aquarium stand.
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So it was back in mid August when Steve,
the guy that actually built our house arrived with the materials for the stand
for the tank.
And I knew Steve was the right guy for this job because he's a very,
very talented builder and carpenter cell.
I was very psyched that he was on board for this,
and he offloaded everything into the garage. And then, uh,
it was my job to start painting. So laid out all the, uh,
the panels and the, uh, the plywood and the, uh, the trim pieces.
And this was, um, the first coat, the primer coat.
I actually put two coats on of the finished coat.
So three coats overall, but, uh, after I was done,
Steve had to assemble the sand inside because actually it was just too wide to
fit through the door. So it had to be assembled inside the,
of the basement and there he sport and the reef on t-shirt made it go, Steve.
Anyway. So he, um,
put the stand together and then he was gluing in some of these, uh,
trim pieces on the bottom of the stand and tacking it in all the pieces with
a, with a nail gun, and just really, um,
did a great job in terms of the assembly and working on the doors there.
And this was pretty much the end of phase one in terms of building it.
And then what I had to do was come back and touch it up with the, uh,
the paint and what you notice here are the new trim pieces and on top of the
stand, and that was done for a reason to make it easier,
to put the tank on top of the stand and not knock those trim pieces off.
So Steve is actually working on a, um, a saddle right here,
and this was not anticipated. We, uh,
I actually messed up with my measurements and there was about a quarter inch of
silicone that was sticking out after we put that initial a trim piece below the
saddle on there. So we had to do something and, uh,
that saddled has turned out great. You know, it, um,
it really kind of accented the whole stand and really made it just look like a
finished piece of furniture.
So there are doors on just one side of the tank and I'm not going to really keep
any equipment underneath the tank.
The only things that I'm going to have underneath there are the ballast for the
lights and the controllers for the [inaudible], but that's about it.
And as you can see, these supports that Steve put in really beefed up the stand,
both in the middle and on the corners and on the side.
So this thing is rock solid and built like a tank. Now,
the Stan was made of Poplar wood.
And what I want to also mention here is that I did not really consider anything
other than a wooden stand. And I knew that I wanted to have wood on the outside,
but I was not really considering an aluminum stand or a, a steel stand.
I just liked the look of wood.
And I'm not sure in terms of how it compared expense-wise if I got a steel
or a aluminum stand skin with the wood. But, um,
my assumption was that it was going to break my budget. Hey,
but if I'm off on that comment about a wooden Stan being less expensive than a
hybrid metal wooden stand than please comment below. But overall,
I'm just really pumped about the way the stand turned out.
It looks like a piece of shaker furniture,
which really matches the rest of the theme of the house in terms of the, uh,
the window sills.
You can see the saddle in this window still matches the saddle on the stand.
And, uh, I pan to the, uh, to the right, and you can see the other tank there.
That's got a white stand and it's, you know, the, the pattern, the,
the style of that stand is a little bit different,
maybe a little fancier than the newer Stan,
but I didn't really want to copy this older Stan.
And I think it's cool to have a couple of different, uh,
different styles in the room. And it's also got, you know,
the older a tank has this, uh, silver light fixture and on the, uh,
the newer a tank, I've got some silver slash white, um,
Metro light fixtures on there. So that kind of like worked out. Yeah.
But overall I'm just really pleased. And I can't thank Steve enough,
an awesome job. Anyway, many thanks for watching. And if you liked the video,
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