Re: The Lone Beech Garage Build Thread (60x46)
Friday - March 25, 2016
Last night we got our first rain in quite a while. This is welcome at this time of the year to clear the air of some of the pollen. Despite the rain, the pollen count was reported to be over 3700 this evening. I don't know what that means except that anything over 200 is considered high.
So the building site is a little muddy but not bad. I did take a quick peek into the Tornado Shelter and it was dry.
The only activity on the building site was this morning was the Electrician doing some clean-up work. Not a lot of photo ops today.
The circuit breaker panel cover is on and the last of the florescent tubes have been installed.
With only about 30 amps of temporary electricity available at the main panel, if I turn all the lights on it would overwhelm the available current. I was hoping we'd get the trench cut on Monday for the electrical hookup from the building to the utility pole but we're expecting Thunderstorms on Sunday. The thing with that sort of a forecast is the spotty nature of a thunderstorm. We could get a downpour or hardly anything. What happens will determine a lot of what we get accomplished next week.
The Builder, the Dirt Moving Sub and myself had a meeting this afternoon to discuss what we'd like to get accomplished in preparation for the exterior concrete that will be the next big phase of this project.
One request I had was to do the concrete in at least two phases. If we do the pad and driveway in front of the Lone Beech Garage first (the front being what's between the building and the road) and then the rest of the work, we can park our vehicles in the completed area while our garage is inaccessible due to construction blocking the house garage.
I spent part of the day trying to pick out exterior wall lighting for the building. I think I've got that pretty much figured out but I'm keeping my options open for the moment.
The bulk of my day was spent trying to decide what kind of fans to get for the work areas of the building. There are 7 fans; 4 in the Auto/Metal Shop and 3 in the Woodshop. The problem is that the fans in each room are controlled by a single switch in each room. I'm trying to find a way to control the speed of these fans with this sort of setup.
There is a Industrial Ceiling Fan made by Hampton Bay (Model 528560) available at
Home Depot that is reported by other Garage Journal contributors to work well for shop spaces similar to mine but I'm trying to find a controller that can handle at least 4 of these at one time (according to the spec sheet a bit less than one amp per fan). I tried to provide a link directly to the product but I couldn't get that to work for some reason.
Scott
Also supposed to be good for automotive fluids which is my requirement. 
