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air con
Hi Alex, I built mine on a wooden deck, with pier going through the deck into the concrete base-it makes the pier longer but I have a slatted wooden floor with an air space underneath and flow of air around the obs plus I have a solar powered fan that runs constantly. On the North facing side I also have shade cloth around the outside walls and the dome inside is painted black.
It still gets hot in Summer (yes! even in Tassie) but cools down quickly when the lids open and the flow of air gets going.
The major POA is that I often drop things like lens caps/ pencils/ leads/ that go through the floor then I have to crawl under the deck with all the bugs and retrieve them - probably something you North Islanders wouldn't rush to do!!
I wouldn't be without my obsy now though, life is so much simpler with it. Especially with younger kiddies making travelling to dark skies a difficult enterprise. Anyway Sadie my eldest calls my obs "Daddies Home"!!
NB I forgot about the 8" newt in my shed -do you still want it?
Graz
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