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I hope to have a lift one of these days. I've blown through my budget so a lift will have to wait.
It does get loud when raining. I have lots of trees around and acorns hitting the roof is extremely loud. I keep thinking something in the shop has fallen.
No plans for garage door openers at the moment. I'm sure they will come one of these days. I will have to figure out where to put those outlets. I will most likely put an outlet between the garage doors. I can branch off of that for the ceiling power when the time comes.
if you have 10ft doors put the receptacle 12ft away from wall on ceiling in center of door. Looking good, you'll enjoy it.
Hi Joe looks great! A few things, One thing I see is your not running your electrical in conduit or is it Romex that your running up the walls. Most Counties in the US requires it to be inside some hard casing if the interior walls aren't closed. Do you have to have an Electrical Inspection? What Gauge wire are you running for your lights? You can run one wire from your first box closes to the lights on the side of your Breaker Panel to the center Junction Box and wiring your switch to operate all 4 of your lights.
I'm running 12/2 mc cable. I could have run 14 gauge wire and been ok, but I wanted to make sure my wires could handle any load I might put on them. We don't have to have an inspection. But the building inspectors can choose to do so any time.
Yes, that is what I did last night to get the switch to both sides of the shop. If I had done it correctly the first time, I wouldn't have needed the junction box. It's a learning process.
I now just have to hang one light that is over my truck and then wire them all together. The cables I need for that should arrive today. I should be able to get to that Wednesday.
Next will be putting up framing for future walls and have a place to attach outlets. I also need to run wires for outside lights. but I need to get the boss to approve lights and locations.
The little bit you save by going 14 gauge is not worth the hassle if you later rip it out to replace it with 12 in the future. If you don't cut corners in the beginning, it is a lot easier to add something when you decide to later.
The little bit you save by going 14 gauge is not worth the hassle if you later rip it out to replace it with 12 in the future. If you don't cut corners in the beginning, it is a lot easier to add something when you decide to later.
Yep. I'm trying to cut costs, but I know many cost cutting options would cause problems down the road. Same goes with outlets. I'm planning on a bunch of them which costs more, but most shops you are always looking for an outlet. I appreciate the idea to alternate them on different circuits. That's a good safeguard without much cost increase.
All my lights will be on one switch for now, but I have a plan to easily change that out. Because of the type of lights I'm using, it will be easy. I just need to run outlets to the other side of the building and put a switch either by the garage doors or next to the current one.
Not a lot of progress. Slowly getting wiring laid out. I marked places for studs then where I want outlets. I'm putting two in each section. My gutter guy got sick. Hopefully he will be out next week. I will call the insulation guy on Monday to see if he has an idea of the date he will come out. I will wait for framing until that is done. No telling on my garage doors. I will call them probably next week to check up on that.
I also used my shop for work. I added a mulching kit to my mower to take care of all the leaves that will be dropping soon.
Blue tap on the girts is approximate location of studs, tape on walls is approximate location of outlets.
I was surprised at how much condensation there was on the roof and walls when we had the cold rain. At first I wondered if I had leaks, but I don't think I do. Rain blowing in from the garage doors doesn't help. The tarps only keep out so much.
Joe,
Awesome to see your building up! I was at about the same place a year ago with mine. I worked all year on the interior and other project mixed in also. Glad your under roof amazing what you czn do when your out of the weather.! Great pictures!
Regards,
Chris
Joe,
Job well done, in these trying times you persevered and conquered! Finding a contractor these days is near impossible, as you so well documented. It took me 15yrs to get the inside of my shop done and now sadly I will be selling to move to another state and start over. Keep working on it as time/money allows and before you know it it will be done.
Looks good Joe. Dang, I wish I would have offered the suggestion earlier, but a lot of time they add the insulation to the roof before they put the tin on. This would have prevented the condensation. To eliminate it now you might have to spray on closed cell foam. Maybe others can offer some different ideas. It is still a lot dryer than working in the open sky. LOL Better get some heat in there.......got down to 21 this morning here.
I got gutters installed yesterday.
I should be getting my spray in insulation before the end of November. I'm going with 2" closed cell on the walls and 5" open cell on the celling. .The insulation guy said that would be a better option than 2" closed cell on the ceiling. It's also cheaper doing it that way.
Still no word on my doors. But they did say 8-10 weeks. So I'm expecting early December for those.
The boss has decided on the outside lights. We were debating carriage lights on the side of the garage doors or a barn light above each garage door. We are going with the carriage lights. So I will start running the cable for those lights soon. We will install the lights after the insulation is up.
We were at Lowes the other day. She was looking at these. A big part of liking these are the size. With a 40 foot front, she things we need big.
I'm not going to rush the purchase of them. I just want to get the wiring laid. I'm getting low on my 250 feet of mc cable. Gonna have to go get more soon
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