OT- Building a residential walk in refrigerator and meat processing room - OT

CanadianAnvil

My kind  of  thread, we cut up 3 market  weight pigs 2 weeks ago. I finished slicing all the bacon this last Wednesday  night, all 54 lbs of  it.
I missed out on a 12 month old heifer  2 weeks before that, that had fell and broke a leg cause I  boggled  for half hour on logistics  and another buddy got it.

alaskanassasin

Permits... ha! 

northGAcock

Sea2Ski said:

northGAcock said:
So no building permit? 

Shhhhh....
All the electrical and building codes shall be followed.

Knowing you....you will exceed all expectations. Great project.

bangor307

Wish you were my neighbor, sounds like we have some common interests!

bubbajack

Bad A$$!

Sea2Ski

@bangor307 I agree!  

SGH

@Sea@Sea2Ski
Simply a great addition my friend. Question if I may. Are you going to use the room as a mini abattoir as well? If so, that’s even more awesome my friend. 

DoubleEgger

Not too many homeowners have a scissor lift. Nice. 

kl8ton

Love this thread! I'm picturing a future realtor showing your house to potential buyers decades from now. 

Over here we have an old slaughter house. . . 

Eoin

kl8ton said:

Love this thread! I'm picturing a future realtor showing your house to potential buyers decades from now. 

Over here we have an old slaughter house. . . 

My parents had a house with a stone salting trough in the back kitchen.

Jeremiah

Awesome project Mark. Looking forward to watching it progress. 

20stone

Fantastic project!

One word of advice, don't cheat yourself on lighting (though, with the work so far, it looks very unlikely that you would).

Second word of advice, if you are going to hang stuff, you may need pretty large scale humidity control for the volume of air you have (unless you are just using a fridge).

Again, awesome project

thetrim

Totally awesome!

Might want to make some minor changes, so you are able to get a proper shave in there as well....

Just sayin'....

NPHuskerFL

Sea2Ski said:

Elijah said:

Why heated floors? Do you have a budget? I would love to do this one day. 

The heated floors gives us the option to do other things if we wish. Example: if we wat to grow cannabis or hang charcuterie to dry, we can adjust the temperature accordingly. Since every part of the build is being done by us, and for us, we stop at each part and say “is there anything else we want to add or be able to do.” and go from there.
First it was a fridge. Then I said we should have a meat hanging rack. So we added that. Then we said we will need some tunes in there, so we just decided yesterday we are going to have speakers....  When the labor is “free” (because we like what we are doing), the materials cost is not bad.  
So far.... it is still a bit early in the build.  

FTFY 😏 
Try spotting the grow room with a drone now Big Brother 😂

Sea2Ski

SGH said:

@Sea@Sea2Ski
Simply a great addition my friend. Question if I may. Are you going to use the room as a mini abattoir as well? If so, that’s even more awesome my friend. 

@SGH whenever possible, we try to kill the animal without having to transport it live, although that Has not always worked out to this point. So we will kill in the field/nearby if possible and then go from there. We do have a slaughterhouse 10 mins away which we can take the blood and guts to after disembowelment for just a couple of bucks which is really nice. So, this room is going to be for hanging/holding the animal(s) until butchering and then butching as well. 
And anything else you want to hold and keep cold. 

JRWhitee

This is awesome Mark.

Thatgrimguy

pescadorzih

Awesome project, Mark!
I may need to head over your way and check this project out this spring.

Ozzie_Isaac

This is the only group of people, where a guy who puts a 6'x6' walk in fridge in his garage does not have the biggest fridge.

You are all crazy.

CTMike

Ozzie_Isaac said:

This is the only group of people, where a guy who puts a 6'x6' walk in fridge in his garage does not have the biggest fridge.

You are all crazy.

Hey, I resemble that remark. 

Sea2Ski

Thank you for all the comments and support everyone. This is a really fun project.

To give you a better picture of what is going on and the layout, this is the view looking from the driveway to the house. You can see there is plenty of room to wheel something right up to the door. 


Getting closer..


Door open


Last night we got the door tacked in place so we can start the framing of the front wall. 


From the inside looking out:


Once we get the framing totally in place, we have to remove the door, remove the wood you can see on the bottom of the door so the rubber sweep sits right on the concrete. Hopefully the framing will be done Wednesday. 

SamIAm2

Have you planned on insulating the ceiling of the freezer section and wrapping surfaces in metal? That room above could get quite cold.

littlerascal56

That resembles a TORNADO bunker in my part of the country!

Sea2Ski

20stone said:

Fantastic project!

One word of advice, don't cheat yourself on lighting (though, with the work so far, it looks very unlikely that you would).

Second word of advice, if you are going to hang stuff, you may need pretty large scale humidity control for the volume of air you have (unless you are just using a fridge).

Again, awesome project

@20stone lighting is currently the big decision we need to make at this point. We know we want a low profile to flush mount LED lighting that is also indoor/outdoor rated.  The biggest variable is how many and positioning. It is tough to gauge the lumens and spread without the final walls up because there will be reflection off the product we chose.
Humidity control: considere and discussed but no final decisions yet. We have to see where things end up after we see what airflow, air exchange and natural humidity is before final sizing is decided upon.

But great points to bring up!! 

bgebrent

That set up is beastly brother!

Sea2Ski

SamIAm2 said:

Have you planned on insulating the ceiling of the freezer section and wrapping surfaces in metal? That room above could get quite cold.

The whole room is going to be insulated as well as we can can get it. The good thing about the room above it is that it is a uninsulated 3 season porch. We do not want to be cooling it in the summer. We should have significant and sufficient insulation up there at then end of this. 

Jeremiah

Mark those exterior shots are stunning. Can only imagine the rest is as nice. 

dharley

The entire thing is amazing. Made my jaw drop. Good job, Mark.

Ozzie_Isaac

When you go to sell your house, how to you market an indoor meat processing and storage facility?

nolaegghead

Ozzie_Isaac said:

When you go to sell your house, how to you market an indoor meat processing and storage facility?

Probably the same way you sell a house with a sex dungeon.   

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3b38p/house-with-sex-dungeon-real-estate-listing-photos-pennsylvania-vgtrn