Recent content by Remford

Here's one view of one of the garages. Very much a work in progress. ‪‬

Glad so many find this idea useful. Sorry about the attachments. No idea why the site rotated them.

I'm not quite sure this qualifies as "fabrication" or anything more than a little ad hoc MacGuyvering at best, but it's proved useful as hell and yielded one of the best yet bangs for my garage buck - so I thought I'd share. I've been wrestling with the best way to implement trickle chargers to...

An installer assembled a third BendPak HD-9 lift at my home and seems to have pulled a real *****. My ceilings are 12' tall. Lifts 1 & 2 plug directly into ceiling outlets overhead but Lift 3's power cord is about 2' too short. I suspect the culprit to be a careless installer who, for reasons...

I've several iterations with beam-mounted strips - or strips suspended beneath them. One ****** is that affixing them directly to the beams is considerable wiring challenge without being very unsightly, but that can be dealt with. The bigger challenge comes from lowering them (and the others)...

I think that would be more true if these were three discreet spaces where the beams were walls and each light effectively only would cast downward and front to back. Although the support beams effectively would obscure the middle rows of front-to-back lighting from shining directly upon the...

I'm not sure how much additional context pictures will offer, but here they are. Thanks.

I'm preparing for the imminent lighting of my 36' x 27' garage and workshop which, for all intents and purposes, has a 12' ceiling throughout. Effectively, the left two thirds consist of two oversized single-width parking bays. Each contains a four-post stacking lift behind a 10' x 9' door...

Running lights between the bays isn't practical for my configuration. But I've arrived upon a layout and some fixtures that I think will do the job nicely. Rather than simply running two tandem fixtures longitudinally along the ceiling above each bay affixed at evenly-spaced points at each...

This is why I hate some homebuilders who are so dismissive about a few inches here and there - like some of us hadn't come up with minimum dimensions and clearances for a reason. We had a salesperson try to tell us "It's just one percent of such a large garage anyway. What's the big deal...

Thanks again for all the great input and information. For strip lighting, tandem T8 fixtures definitely seem the best way to go, especially to benefit from the cost savings and handling ease of 4' tubes. To hell with diffusers, though they do look terrific when clean and new. With more light...

Ooh! Good questions. Thanks for asking. Ceilings are 12' plus across and painted white. Haven't settled on a final color for the walls yet which are presently painted a pale grey.

I have a roughly 37' x 26' newly-built garage that's basically 3/4 vehicle space and 1/4 workshop. It has six keyless fixtures and bulbs at present in advance of having final fixtures chosen and installed. The car space will have 2-3 four-post stacking storage/service lifts. To retain aas...

Thanks much for the input. I think I'm going 110 on a 20amp breaker - consequences be damned. :). With home runs for each other line, simultaneous use load shouldn't be a concern - I hope. Was yours a recent purchase? (hopefully Bendpak hasn't revised the motor). I'm having a tough time...

This is really a ******. I too have been weighing the same choice. Fortunately, I'm doing so in a newly-constructed home where I had at least two 50 A 220 lines run to each wall and even in the ceilings, so at least I'm beginning from a point of knowing I've got more than I need already...