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Yes the panel is 100amps rated but im only going to be runnning a 60amp breaker at the main panel. If i start popping it i'll pull two more 2ga or 4ga wires and beef it up a bit. 55amps is alot... All im planning on running is; 200amp Welder Plasma cutter air compressor handheld grinders LED...

Dont want to Hyjack the but i am doing this exact thing. New detached garage 200 Amp service on the home and installed a 100amp sub panel in the new garage. I went with 6-3 cable for the feed to the garage. My question is on my panel these are two spots to put the ground. There is a bar that is...

Attached some progress pics. Still needs trim, garage door, and power then I can move the fun stuff in.

I got the workshop from these guys who i found on Alibaba. https://www.hsdcontainerhouse.com/container-house/iso-certificated-steel-structure-shipping.html I never ended up using the structural floor beams, floor purlins, or the red "fire proof" flooring they provided. That said i think i...

I just went thru this. I was going to take 3x 20ft shipping containers and space them out the width of 5 containers and cut the sides out and then weld them together to amke a single 20ftx 42ft shop. I ended up going with a pre-made building shipped from china that came with 3" insulated wall...

I believe a lot of those rust sealer are strong acid based and they will etch your concrete pretty good. You could get some more acid and etch the entire floor and then stain it to create a uniform look.

Sodium silicate dissolved in water (20-25%) is a great densifier that drives into the pores of the concrete and reacts with the cement to actually produce more cement in the pores of the concrete. Its commonly used in concrete floor hardening for industrial buildings. 2-3 coats without letting...

On one side it is has a "foundation" footer and the other has some concrete piers I set in the ground. I checked on those augar type anchors and they look like it may a good option as well. Yes I was trying to get the workshop up earlier during the summer but life got in the way. Now these...

I recently purchased a 19x38x9.5ft building via china. The flooring it came with was not quite adequate for what I wanted to do so I never installed the floor joists and just left the floor dirt and decided to just cast concrete inside and around the out side. The frame of the building is...