Pictures kennel project not done yet

[mlinnane]

These pictures will take a while but here is how I have spent the summer.
I have placed all the pictures in a work doc if I have time I just cut and place
everything into a post reply

 

[Birdhunter1]

The pics didn't show up for me but I woudl liek to see them as I am always looking for new dog pen ideas.

 

[EddieWalker]

All I got was the discriptions of what the pictures must look like. No pictures at all.

Eddie

 

[mlinnane]

OOPS, I decided to place the pcitures on my web page so I did not
have to upload them twice. So here is the link I hope this is allowed.

http://www.stonewallboarding.com/const.html

Take a look when you get time, we are still not complete

 

[Oleozz]

Very impressive. Is it a training kennel, boarding kennel? I'll have to make sure my dogs don't see those pics or I just might have some jealous dogs to deal with.

 

[mlinnane]

this is a boarding kennel. To be honest you get more money to board them sometimes then you can to train. And it is a lot less headaces. The grounds are for training my own dogs.

 

[EddieWalker]

Thanks for the pictures, I enjoyed looking at them and all your progress. Having them all in order like that really pur into persepctive what you've been doing.

On the plumbing lines, I notices that the end of the main line inside you barn has a screw in plug at the end. Is this to clean out the line if it gets pluged up? If so, or if it's meant to be a cleanout, you might want to put it on a 45 elbow or a sweeping 90. If you have a problem and need to open it up, you will have a very bad, stinky mess to deal with that you could easily avoid.

Eddie

 

[dooleysm]

I used to know a guy that was well respected in the beagle field trial world. He charged $40/week to train beagles to run. I thought that was a heck of a deal and didn't see how he could make any money doing that.

I'm very jealous of that setup.

 

[texbaylea]

Be prepared for your septic system not functioning well. Many, many years ago I was a research manager for NASA. Part of one study was a beagle colony and the research group reported that the septic system did not break down the waste as expected. At this distance in time (about 30 years) I do not remember what they had to do about the problem. It may be that if you are adding enough human waste to the system the system will work better. I would recommend that the system be pumped in about 2 years and assesed as to how well it is working.

Vernon

 

[mlinnane]

I am aware that dog waste does not break down. My plan is to pick up the waste and then wash kennels with power washer. You have to understand
my kennel has a full bathroom including a shower. There is a kitchen with three sinks. Two for dog dishes and one for me. Also the grooming shop will have a rasied one peice tub. The clean outs are mostly for dog hair not waste. I also have a trap on from the kennel area before it goes in the septic tank as there was not enough room to place one in the floor. Also we have a clean out in the kennel area. So I will not have to snake more then 15 feet the most which may be more then I want.
But this is just like building a house there is a kitchen, bathoom and more GFI outlets then you can shake a stick at. I have outlets on all sides of the building. I also need to duplicate the water system I have in my house, for Iron removal. It is so bad that I could give a white poodle a bath and it would apricot when I was done, due to the iron in the water.
To run water to everyplace int he kennel I will use Pex tubing and run everything over head attached to the ceiling through pipe. I already
have the tool from doing the floor so I will go with wirsbo 1/2 inch. We will
run most everything from a manifold through the kennel. So basically I will run the plumbing myself.
But what scares me is the prices of these modulating boilers 92% efficient
some of the prices I have gotten have been $2700 for only 100,000btu
to $4100 for a utica boiler 130,000btu.