During the week I stopped at Bunnings and picked up a few things I need to continue the build. While there I looked at render but seeing as I was on my bike I wasn't going to lug a 20kg pack of render in a backpack so I left that. I was fairly lucky, they had a clearance rack up and where selling off a whole bunch of painting stuff and I managed to pick up a can of concrete sealer and a tin of wrongly coloured paint. Got twice the amount of sealer for the same cost and the paint was over 50% off. Bargain! I also picked up some more liquid nails, surprisingly I used more than I thought I would and after today I think I may still need another tube. I also bought some timers, I only need one but the twin pack was cheaper than a single one, so I figured a spare can't hurt. The timer will be used to run the fogger unit, so it only comes on when I want it too. Also my second glass door handle arrived.
Today I had the car so I stopped by the reptile store to price up substrate (bedding) as the local pet store seemed rather expensive when I looked. I was right, reptile store was a lot cheaper and when I need it I will head back there for some. While there I discussed a UV light, it seems I don't need one as my snake is nocturnal so the infrared heat lamp will be sufficient enough, sweet! Then on the way home I stopped at Bunnings again and picked up the render and a small paint brush for the small nooks and crannies.
I also made a small pitstop for some refreshments!
To finish off the rock wall I started by cutting up bits of both the 10mm and 20mm polystyrene sheets to random shapes and sizes (as well as using any offcuts I had from making the side shelves). I randomly attached them to the side with liquid nails.
I just placed them roughly and as they where.
All around the sides and back, leaving the spaces clear for the various things I marked.
Once done, I left the adhesive to dry and moved on to making the fogger container.
As said in a previous post, the original idea for a small deep container wasn't going to work due to the fogger spitting out water. So I came up with an idea for a larger more oval shaped container with a lid open at the two long ends. Hoping this would stop most the water splattering over the sides. I made a mock up of it and tested it out, it seemed to work rather well so I went ahead and started putting it all together.
My daughter often comes sits with me in my shed while I work, asking so many questions and wanting to play with all my stuff. For now my safety glasses and ear plugs kept her happy.
I attached some mesh to the container, this will keep the snake out of it as the fogger unit does get a little hot. Also once the container is finished if she gets inside it may be quite hard to get her out if the need should arise.
It may not look like much but the container is glued together and ready for the next step. Just need to let the adhesive set.
While waiting I started to shape the rock wall, honestly I started rather gently and slowly but I found that a quick and heavy handed approach worked much better for this. I used a box knife and scraped at the pieces I had attached earlier in the day.
Scraping the edges I shaped the pieces to resemble a rock type face. As you can see this process is also really messy, the mess you see isn't even quarter of it as I kept vacuuming it up. Surprisingly this was actually rather quite tiring on the arms but the refreshments helped there!
After a fair bit of effort (and beer) the rock wall was all done. Now all that is left is to cut out the spots for the thermostat and the two thermometers (I bought 2 thermometers on ebay the other day but they haven't arrived yet, BAH!) and then to render it tomorrow.
Above is the fogger container, it isn't finished as the adhesive was still setting and it was time to my daughter to bed. So I still need to shape it, which I think I will go do now! Oh, I also decided I can't be arsed adding a price list to every post so I am just keeping a list and I will add it every now and then and also on the final build blog.
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