Water tank Fun

 This is the shelf that held the water tank within the closet area. I have not officially figured out the tank capacity, but I’m guessing it’s around 10 gallons. That’s a lot of weight on a single piece of 1/2” plywood! I will definetely beef this up in the rebuild. You can also see more water damage in the floor and wall corner area.


 Here’s another picture but showing more of the upper portion of the area. Again, you can see in the upper corner, water entry, in its earlier stages.


Here is the water tank. I will sanitize and re use it. It looks to be in good shape. I will obviously replace the copper and vinyl tubing. One of the problems I noticed with the installation of the tank on the shelf is that the tank does not have a flat bottom to sit on. Instead, it’s got extruded reinforcements that creat weird high spots that make the tank wobble around. I will remedy this later by building risers that will make the area around the reinforcements flush with them. This will also help keep the tank in place. 


Just because. 😀



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