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Finishing new house and detached workshop... They are starting on the flat work including driveways... The lowest car I have is about 5.3" at the mid-point with a 105.6" wheel base (mid point 52.8"). (base stock 2010 C6) I'm dealing with strings and gravel and forms at this point... The...

In the detached workshop they put up what is called BIBs (blown in batting) insulation - after wiring, they stapled a sheet-like material across the studs on exterior walls (including shop), then blew in insulation at the top filing up each cavity between studs. When adding an old construction...

My ideas was a 1 gang box set flush in the stone by the mason crew for the CAT6. Mount the LB to the gang box (actually to blank plate on gang box w/ appropriate hole). It would still be about as visible as just the LB (for aesthetics) but give me a little space to coil some slack or put in a...

OK - thanks (no can't enter thru foundation - will be buried and come up side of slab and in...) QUESTION - Is it worth putting in a single gang box in the stone and mounting the LB to it? (vs running a conduit tube straight thru the stone to the LB) I ask because a gang box would give me the...

Having new house and detached garage built. I asked them to give me a wired CAT6 drop at the garage. So far they have a CAT6 cable exiting the sheathing... They have yet to put up the stone siding there or bring Cat6 over to the garage. I was thinking of using a small Type LB conduit body on...

In construction phase of new house and garage... I am pre-wiring a 30A input plug on the side of the garage. This will be wired to the sub-panel inside the garage where there will be an inter-lock switch. I'll then be able to wheel a portable generator out the driveway, around the corner and...

OK Thanks! I'm going with the Genie 6170 (on the 16x8 high lift door) for the Google Assistant integration feature. Thanks again for the confirmation

I 'think' the builder uses Wayne Dalton doors if that matters - not sure of the type of spring arrangement.

Having new place built. For my detached workshop - they are putting in a 10 foot ceiling and 8 food tall door (16 feet wide). I specified a high lift door track and wall mount (Genie 6170) opener. This was to keep the space overhead as open as possible. Will a Genie 6170 wall mount unit work...

The same contractor building our house is also building my detached shop (and carport). It will be 24' deep by 27' wide with a 2 car garage door (and 22x24 carport in front of ga door for additional parking in shade). For spaces like this they've budgeted us for basic LED surface mount lights...

On heat - with all things being equal (same size, same 3" batting insulation in walls), a metal shop building might need a higher capacity split mini? (we see typically see temps at or close to 3 digits most summers). I wonder if they can put a thicker batting in the roof on the metal shop than...

Found these 4x8 white plastic sheets. Rather than paint the interior wood siding (floor decking) white - thoughts on putting this stuff up instead? Looks like might be something that could be put up in a wet environment like a bathroom or something...? Might hold up better than paint for messy...

I don't have a good elevation of either. The wood construction would end up w/ a hip roof (metal roof) w/ stone siding halfway up and stucco the remainder... Here's an elevation WITHOUT the carport (which might end up being 8 or 9 ft high instead of 10) Here's an image of a METAL shop I found...

Here's a couple of floorplans - the metal shop (24x30) is rectangular w/ carport (24x24) in orange and wood construction shop is somewhat irregular (27W X 24D at rear and 24W at front) also w/ carport (20x24) shown in orange Metal Shop Notional Plan: Wood Construction Shop Plan: (these pix...

We've changed our location for building retirement home. As a result I'm no longer constrained to just building a shop with matching stucco/masonry siding and no carport and can now go with a metal shop and probably attached carport. Yay. Only while I'd always 'thought' I'd prefer going metal...

Car charger Outlet - back wall of attached garage: (Tesla) 240V, NEMA 14-50, 50A, left side or rear of car position. (We may get something else or no EV at all, Tesla was just a popular potential use-case - various EVs put their plugs in various places - I can't really plan for all that - I'll...

Planning build for new house w/ attached garage and detached shop. Wanted to give the builder some specifics on three(3) 220V outlets for the builder: (1) For the attached garage for a future EV charger , I believe the common plug used is a NEMA 14-50 (by Tesla and others?). If so I plan to...

Planning a new home build with a side facing attached garage and a detached garage/shop. Since it will be difficult to build a shed we asked the builder's architect to include a small space in the attached garage for garden 'stuff' (I currently have a shed for exactly this) - which he did. The...

Have the blueprints back from builder for the house and (shown below) detached shop... I didn't include the ceiling plan as it's very simply: "10 Ft" Question: Noticed they have 36" wide entry door (as well as the back and side entry doors to the main house itself). Is this the new standard...

I'm definitely not pursuing RO for the bib! That's JUST for one drinking water outlet at the kitchen sink and the ice-maker is all. We will indeed have very hard water from limestone aquifer. I'm OK w/ the traditional salt-type softener for the house. It's not enough that one can taste it but I...