So got started on Sunday afternoon doing some work in my spare time. Been a busy few weeks with acquiring another business and halloween etc. But finally did some work on the mining room setup/project.
I'm trying to take photos as I go so maybe it will help other or give people ideas on what to do. I'm learning as I go so I will make mistakes, but the feedback from the forum has been great and gives me perspective I may have overlooked.
I've posted some general photos of what has been done so far.
Few speed bumps I hit.
Home Depot screwed me up good. I ordered some louvers vents for the exhaust section. They sent me two in packaging with the right model numbers, but one of them was a different product inside the box. So I was only able to get one aluminum vent mounted. The other hole we blocked off temporarily until we get the replacement vent.
The fans were a bit larger so they had to go a good bit above the floor because of the space constraints. I didn't want to remove the aluminum window framing as if and when I do expand I plan to restore this room back into the storage/office area it originally was.
The worst setback was me not knowing that my property has 3 phase power. I had purchased 3 200amp Siemens single phase panels as that was what I am familiar/comfortable working with. My electrician buddy who was going to mostly do all the work but let me help him, enlightened me that he could make it work since he did some sort of load test on the 200 amp source breaker to make sure it would trip out. But then I would have to remember that two poles would give 220 and then the next would be a single phase which it didn't make sense to me and was confusing the hell out of me. So I told him would it be better for me to have a 3 phase panel and he said ideally that is the best route to take. He's aware of my skills, and that I would be okay, but I have various guys working at times and didn't want to risk someone getting hurt over trying to 'make things work'. So we placed orders for Siemens three phase load centers. (Almost double and some more than the single phase price). So hopefully will received the new 3 phase panels this week. Also he recommended that I only put two load centers at first and he would 'pre-run' the third panels wire but not tie it in. Just have it wrapped up and put away so that it would be easier to add into the future without much work involved.
If I was do it again, I would stack the fans vertically not horizontally as it ate up a lot of the space.
Here some photos of what we did so far.
Removed the glass windows and the frame pieces holding the windows.
Made a hole in the floor for conduits for the wire on the cold side.
One window boarded up. Each window uses two sheets of plywood.
Both large windows boarded up
Prepping install of the exhaust fans. Marked and working on cutting out.
First hole cut out for exhaust.
Holes cut out and fans mounted for exhaust and intake sides.
So fans are mounted minus one exhaust vent. Returned the old one and picked up new on at the store today. Plan to get some 'free' time and work for a while finishing things up.
