FM Ultimate Fish House

[cabin boy]

They say there are no dumb questions right? Here goes-how is the diamond plate attached. What is the siding glued with. Is it overlapped and siliconed?

[deadminnowcatcher]

the siding is glued with construction adhesive. and it is overlaped 1 inch. It is caulked where it is overlapped. The diamond plate is attached with stainless screws. The house will be spray foamed which is like being glued to the siding

[ice man]

DMC- what are you going to use on the roof? the green looks good I bet your happy you went with that color.

[mediocrates67]

great job so far! what will you do for the wheel well edges and window edges, some kind of j-channel or just silicone?

[deadminnowcatcher]

i made angle aluminum out of left over diamond plate and will frame in the wheel wells with that. The windows will get trimmed out with flat trim that i got from fish house supply. Puttin the roof on today. A rubber membrane and that will get trimmmed out with the same flat trim pieces. I will post pics of this tonite

[tisosy11]

Very nice - have you decided on inside design?

[deadminnowcatcher]

Here are the pics of the roof going on and the roof trim

[Sandmannd]

What did you put on top for the roof? Looks like it's just wood and then what did you use on top of that?

[deadminnowcatcher]

wood, glue then rubber membrane

[Big Buck Buster]

I was told by a carpenter that I am suppose to put a 1/2" layer of built-rite under the rubber membrane for cushion to prevent punctures if something hard hits it. Did you here of the same thing, or not?

[deadminnowcatcher]

i have vever heard that and never have had a problem with a rubber roof

[Bryce]

Make sure you take video when you pull the new shack out for the first time. That's going to be a tight fit. I'm thinking the video is going to be a variation of a monkey and a football if you get my drift.

[SomethingFishy*]

 Originally Posted By: Bryce

Make sure you take video when you pull the new shack out for the first time. That's going to be a tight fit. I'm thinking the video is going to be a variation of a monkey and a football if you get my drift.

By your pics it looks like you will have to drag the house out of the garage, if you use the wheel jacks it looks like it will take out the garage door header.

Either way, nice build you have going there.

[tisosy11]

Ah yes, looks like its coming along great.

[deadminnowcatcher]

no problem gettin it out of da garage. just cranked it off da ground and pushed it out by hand. been der done dat b4.da rest will be built outside now dat i got it weather proof

[deadminnowcatcher]

I will be wiring the house soon for trailer lites. Do I need to run a ground wire from each lite to the frame???

[Big Buck Buster]

I personally would run a ground wire to each light on the house and splice them to the main harness ground, so you don't have to worry about and ground problems. That is the way I do all my trailer wiring, and have had no problems that way. I also solder and shrink wrap all connections to limit the possibilities of corrosion in the harness.

[ice man]

can't help you with the wiring, but was going to let you no that i went to the ice castle surplus auction yesterday and a house like the size of your want for $9,500 to $10,500 so it will be cool to here what you end up having in yours when you get your done.

[Quackaddict9]

I'd guess anywhere between 3,000-5,000

[hawkeye43]

I would run a ground to each light and soldering all the wires together. It takes more time, but you never have to worry about not having lights not working.

[deadminnowcatcher]

so run a ground from the tongue to one lite, the tongue to another etc>>>

[jerkbait]

Yep, that is pretty much what I did. All my lights are grounded back at the tongue and to the truck thru the harness.

[Big Buck Buster]

You don't have to run ten different ground wires to the tongue, but just run one ground into the house through the studs, if that is where you are running all the wires, than run that single ground wire to each light and splice the ground from the light to the single ground wire that came from the tongue. You're just running a parallel ground circuit to each light. Hope that helps..

[jerkbait]

Yeh, that is what I meant to say, that is exactly how I did it.

[hawkeye43]

In the house that I have now,I hook all the outside lights so I could turn them on in the house. I ran a hot and ground wire to the battery. I put a switch in the hot wire, that way when the house is on the lake , not hooked to the truck, you can turn it on for people to find your house. With a remote you can turn it on when you are looking for it also.