id have to make a small mud room to prevent to much of a draft.

Rather than framing out a mudroom and wasting that space you could just make a small entry area by draping some Reflectix around the door or even that overlapping plastic like you see in warehouses, etc. You just need a small area to stand in while you close the door behind you. During warmer months you could just take the drape down altogether. If you left it up it wouldn't take up much space.

Even if you heated the space with forced air heat of some sort, snake rooms tend to have a lot of thermal mass in them with all the cages, etc. so heat loss is really not that much of an issue. If you end up using some sort of radiant heater it's even less of an issue.

I'm going to try to post some more general thoughts on shed-type herp houses in Bighurt's DIY SIPs thread. I plan to still get to that today.

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