Recent content by phildilio

Hi guys, this is my first post. I've been a lurker for many years and appreciate the wisdom and experience found here.. My lift, a 10,000 Symmetrical clear floor (L1100) is coming this week. My Lift has to be offset from my 14' wide door because of a center support post. My shop is 30' wide. I'm...

Yeah, I know it's a lot more complicated than that, but forgetting space lit, it's a pretty good article. I think one of the things to look out for is the 'feeling' of the space... it sounds like I'm doing today exactly what the original poster is doing, is putting up my lights. I really like...

Thanks. Upon rereading, and I was quoting from a questionable memory, 1 Lux is roughly 10 foot candles. Either way, that's a pretty good site. It's not necessarily up to date when it comes to LED technology, but it does have a pretty good description of light and how to use it. To light of...

He recommends between 50 and 100 lumens per square foot, or lux I believe. To me, with 1280 square feet to be lit, that's pretty excessive... I'm going with 4000 lumens per led fixture, for ~25 lux, (led 4' double strips for cost efficiency), and filling in with warehouse lights for task work...

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/content.php?146-Lighting-the-Small-Workshop-by-Jack-Lindsey&page=2#comments This site was extremely helpful when I was planning lighting my workshop. Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

No. Dis 13 watt LED is an 85 watt equivalent. What that means is that the amount of light a conventional incandescent 85 watt bulb puts off will be put off by this bulb using only 13 watts. Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

I had my energy engineer buddy consult a building/civil engineer in his firm. Between the two of them, they ginned up some creative solutions. My offer is one of two, they haven't been accepted yet. The other was significantly lower than mine. I should get it.

Drivesitfar, this garage is the 'Garage Parcel' of two, separate, one acre parcels. The home, a 2000 ft^2 4bed/3bath forclosure, is on an adjacent 1 acre lot. It has frozen plumbing, and a wet basement condition, didn't sell alone at $130K and is going to auction on it's own. The asking price on...

The damage in the upper right gable of the blurry zoomed download from Google Earth is either unfinished barnboard veneer over old shiplap or damaged same. I'm planning on reconfiguring the front to feature 2 overhead doors, a narrower tall one on the left, a 7'x12' in the middle, and a man door...

I had a 20x20 uninsulated detached garage a dozen years ago. We had to move to get the kids out of the city and in to a better school district. I liked that garage and miss it. I put a coal 'joker' (hot water heater of yesteryear) stove in it for heat, and wired a 100A subpanel to it, a bunch of...

All I've got is crappy-in-to-the-light-overexposed interior shots, on my cellphone. I'm having a little trouble moving them to my 'Merry Xmas-it's-a-Windows8-laptop' POS that I'm having trouble learning how to use. I'm working on it. I close on this place in two weeks.

...and when I say Upstate, I don't mean Westchester. I mean Adirondack foothills, Schenectady area. I just bought this garage on one acre, 100 ft of road frontage in a rural residential area. :rocker: 200 amp Electrical entrance,it's about 32 x 40, the big sliding door is 15' wide by 12' high...