For a while now I’ve had a server rack hosting my lab environment, but it’s always been exposed to bad temperature conditions. Since moving to our own house the rack has been sitting in the attached garage, where it gets up to 90F in the summer and as low as 20F in the winter. So far all equipment in the rack survived the abuse, but it was difficult to work on stuff during extreme weather, it meant either freezing or sweating during seasons. And that’s not all, the only electrical circuit that went to the garage also ran the outside lights, kitchen and living room outlets, and would trip at least once a week.

So a couple of months ago I started a little project to build an insulated server room in the basement, with tempered dual-pane glass sliding doors, separate electrical circuits, and access to a window that could house an A/C unit during the summer, and just be open during the winter. You can see the end result in the picture, but for the whole process in building the room, you can visit THIS PAGE.