Recent content by MarkOPKS

Our crew is starting today on our shop, 18' door here too. You won't regret it, especially if you are moving multiple vehicles and/or trailers.

Thanks for the good tips everyone. I know the power company won't upgrade us to 200a, but our meter and line from the street are both really old which is what I was hoping to get upgraded. I like the Cat5, water line, and ceiling fan ideas for sure.

The house service is overhead from the street, but we're running the service to the shop from our current panel underground. They're going to do an oversize conduit and leave a pull string in it for if/when we upgrade. I'm in KS so our winters can be pretty cold but not MN or WI cold. If it's...

Right now our whole property is on 100 amp service (built in 1950 and never upgraded). Our power company may eat the cost of an upgrade since we would be using more power but they have to come out to evaluate and we wanted to move forward with the shop without relying on them. I'm not sure our...

Good to know. I called the power company to see if they can pull more service from the street and upgrade our house from 1950 so will be curious to see what that runs. Thank you!

Long time browser here but finally starting our shop project next week or so.:bounce: We are building a 30x36x10 post frame building with an insulated roof and full air/vapor wrap. 2 windows, 2 walk doors, an 18x8' garage door and a 10x8' garage door both insulated. I'm looking at electric...