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Looking at doing a "whole home" surge protector in my metal shop. Have Square-D homeline panel. Im aware I am not protecting my building from a direct lightning strike. We have a lot of brown outs, second or two power interruptions, etc... I can get a 50ka unit that simply installs in the...

Im getting confused reading about shared neutrals, MWBC(I dont think this is what I am trying to do as I only want/need to use a single breaker), etc... Getting my plan together to install my shop lighting... Somebody sanity check me or call me an idiot(cause I likely am). -10x 4' LED strip...

Looking for some advice/opinions on how to route the EMT and wiring to the lights I am planning to put into my shop. Im strongly considering 10x of these 4' LED fixtures. 7200 x 10 / 700 = just north of 100FC's. I would be at 13' mounting height which is the max they recommend for these...

Here's a thread on my experience putting down GhostShield 8510 on a 30 day old slab... probably nobody will read it and im not posting pics as everything just looks like bare concrete. I contacted GhostShield to get recommendations on how much product to buy because they have, on their website...

Had concrete done last week for my new shop. Slab/footers/beams for the shop was done with about 1 & 2/3 trucks and it looks all uniform. The last 1/3 of a truck they started pumping into the flatwork(about 800sq.ft. total). The 3rd truck was used to finish off the flat work. The 3rd truck...

Having concrete poured in ~2 weeks for detached shop. Looking like 2" conduit is plenty for my service entrance(2-2-2-4 for 60 amp 220v). I asked concrete guy who says "im not an electrician" which seems to be his answer to anything not related to strictly dumping concrete on the ground...

I was under the impression if you used 4500 densifier you only needed 1 coat of 8510... Now I am reading you need 2 coats of 8510 even with 4500 being used... Building 700sq. ft. basically large 2 car. Will do some work on cars in it as it will get a 2 post lift, but its mainly going to be a...

Getting ready to get a 24x29 garage/shop built. I would love larger but my city has made going larger very onerous with the concrete requirements over 700sq. ft.... ANYWAY. I know I will REALLY need to ask the concrete guys(who this shop builder sub contracts with) what they think, although...

Weve been in our house for 4 years now and every winter our electric bill is higher than in the summer... We live in Texas, our summers are brutal our winters, overall, are mild. I always questioned it. In the winter we run the house during the day at 66 and at night let it cool down to 60. I...

Planning on picking up a 72" US General bottom and top box tomorrow as there is a 20% off coupon that can be used this weekend. Its a good chunk of change to lay out, but still seems like a solid deal vs. anything else I am seeing. The 72" stuff at Lowes/Home Depot dont seem to have top boxes...

I was all set on getting an Atlas 408-SL, but they are out of stock everywhere and the guy at Best Buy Auto said they are re-designing some stuff on them as there were "issues"... I didnt broach that topic, but he said "no ETA"... The "hidden cables" aspect is what I liked where the cables...

Been fighting a little bit with my main garage door. 3 years old. Last week I noticed it was opening and closely "oddly". I saw that one side of the cables were loose on the drum, but the other side was tight. The garage door opener wouldnt close the door, it kept hitting the force limiter...

Going to wire up and install a plug for an EV charger for a plug in hybrid I just bought. Dont need to go overkill as the internal charger only runs 3.7kw, but am thinking multi purpose... 50a non GFCI breaker(again its overkill as I will likely only use 16a on 220v anyway and non-GFCI because...

I have 2 HVAC air handlers that take 20x20x5 filters... Bought my last ones at Home Depot(honeywell brand). They dont carry them anymore. The honeywell site is useless for looking up filters. I checked the Filtrete website and they dont list a 20x20x5 filter(its greyed out) either... I was...

I have a, guessing, 10 year old Milwaukee 1/2" drill. Uses the M18 batteries. Got 3 other tools in the M18 class and 2 brand new 6ah batteries and 1 2ah thats maybe 2 years old, but still good. Got my drill smoking hot a few weeks ago and the next time I used it had pieces of, guessing the...

Day 1 of putting down Legacy Nohr-S pigmented polyurea. Im an amatuer and I am sure I short cutted a few things and maybe my end product will suffer as a result...or maybe not. Rented a grinder first thing this morning and worked on the floor from 8 until about 2. Did the best I could, but...

Floor coating ordered: Nohr-S polyurea Closing next week on the new house so went ahead and ordered the floor coating for the garage floor. Legacy Nohr-S polyurea medium grey with System 9. white, grey, blue, and black. Also got the premium tool kit and spiked shoes. Its brand new concrete...

Building a new house. Optioned spray foam in the attic spaces, batt in the walls. I did not realize/wasnt told by the **** sales people, the attic space above the garage is not sprayed. They built "hot walls" between the house and the attic which are sprayed. So the garage is its own entity...

Just got a quote for doing my garage floor in the new house from a local company and they state they use General Polymers 4850. This is a polyaspartic coating and is a Sherwin Williams product from what I can tell. They offer a lifetime warranty on the floor. It doesnt mention yellowing in...

Starting to think through lighting for the garage on my new house. 3 bay garage roughly 22x30 with 10' ceilings. Was originally thinking 2x 2x4 led flat panels in each bay. Probably Metalux FP series. Surface mount. 5000k, 40w. Then I got to thinking that 2 in each bay probably isnt enough...