Recent content by steffen707

No, I would still install an AC wall unit with the modine heater.

Well I looked, it's a straight shot from existing black pipe, so I imagine they could do black pipe all the way to the heater with only 3 90s

Natural gas from basement I believe wouldn't be too hard. Not sure what code would require,, and if you can run a corrugated stainless steel "yellow" pipe all the way to heater location. It's. About 50' from the gas range.

Yeah, that's going to be stupid expensive. Guess i'm back to the old Modine heater. Now should I get a 75, 100, or 125?

Oh ****, I wasn't thinking. My 5kw electric heater isn't 5k btu, it's more like 17k btu, so the minisplit isn't going to be a ton more powerful that that... Going with setup A I think.

It wasn't a typo. 13.5' x 52' deep. 700ish sf 3rd stall. Enough for a lift/park bay and decent shop behind it. You're probably right about recovery time. It's nice to walk out into a 50 deg garage, turn heater up and be toasty in 15 minutes while it's 0deg out.

I've got a 24x25 2 car garage 9ft ceilings fully insulated with insulated door and sheetrocked/mud/taped/painted, adding a 13.5x52 3rd stall, 12ft ceilings on 3rd stall, attached to original 2 car. This will be half wood shop, half car parking (with a rotary lift) The garage doors will be...

Thanks guys, i think i have it now. =)

I thought I read that SER just being in a garage means it could be subject to damage, and therefor needed to have conduit..... So the working space needs to be 30" wide. So as long as there are no walls within 30" of the panel, the door or window would be fine, because you can stand in front...

This will be feeding a 40amp Level 2 vehicle charger (set to only charge at night), plus a large refrigerator, planer, dust collector, probably a 240v table saw and jointer in the future as well. I just figured if i'm going through the hassle of running the wire, i might as well go for 90amps...

Correct, its not going outside at all. I thought i read that the SER can be run through the floor joists, and then to be protected in the garage would have to be in conduit.

I didn't know that. Thank you.

I'm a handy home-owner and plan to do most of this work myself. I want to develop a game plan, run it by a friend of the family who is an electrician, and then have him connect the panels. I could probably do it, but better safe than sorry. I have a 200 amp main panel in my unfinished...

I'm building a lean to next to my garage. It will be 18' long and 12' wide (11' to the 6x6 posts with dual 2x10 sandwiched and notched into the 6x6 posts. Due to headroom I was only going to use a 2x8x18' attached to the garage studs as the ledger, with 2x8 rafters (span table said 2x6 was too...

Yeah, it cost me like $500 more to have them all installed but they were done in 5 hours, after reading enough about torsion springs and how they can be dangerous if not done properly, I figured i'd leave it to a pro. But what I got was just unacceptable. Especially since this installer's...