Recent content by weldeng

Been busy with life, but some progress has been made, winter is cutting things short. Cleary finished their scope of the shell (a bit late) I purchased lights from Prolighting, ran some of the power and digging trenches inside to run conduit under the slab. It has been either to wet or cold...

Thanks they made more progress today and should be done with their scope of work

They got some more wore done and I am hoping the lights come in tomorrow. I am still on the fence for slab heating or not. If I do the work it won’t be to bad, I am going to find out next week if the concrete guys will work with me forming, laying the rod and tubing out.

I ordered 9 of these lights and they gave me a discount referencing this forum, I should have them Friday. http://www.prolighting.com/commercial-lighting/fixtures-high-low-bay-high-bays/b4146ssumxx-18w5k.html

I spoke with a couple of door manufacturers and there is insufficient headroom for a high lift track. Looking at a Janus model 2500 for a rollup solution. The insulation on all these sheet rollup doors appears worthless. I am also looking at a normal insulated garage door. I plan on...

They got some more done today and two trusses hung.

That is a thought, I’ll look into those next week. Thanks.

The reason for not wanting a sectional door is they block a ton of light when they are up, or at least in every garage I have had it has gone that way.

I am educating myself on rollup doors, and I thought most of them were the slat type but I believe I am incorrect and they are the corrugated sheet type. I received some estimates for the slat type and for a 14X14 door I do not believe it is worth 7k. While the door will be used more than a...

Got progress today, and was lucky we didn't hit any rocks when digging. A skid-steer is a versatile tool, but for using an auger it doesn't really have enough front weight and they do wheelies. Poles are in the ground but not set.

The distance from my house breaker box with some extra factored in is 100 feet. At 100 amps at 100 feet to be less then 3% voltage drop it would be 1 Cu and 1 ought for Al.

Good thinking, I didn’t know that about the 125 amp breaker issue. Thanks for the heads up. I haven’t figured wire gauge yet, will measure distance today to determine voltage drop at 100 amps.

This is will be our second winter here since moving from Katy (near Houston), our first winter saw 3 feet and that lasted a good bit, most of the other snows are gone in a day or two. We are about at 7000 feet.

Here are some better pictures of the site

For heating, I originally thought of in-floor heating which is nice, but I don' think I will be out there with enough frequency and it has a slow response rate to make it justifiable. I have a wood stove and would like to add a pellet stove at a later date.