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My pole barn just got finished so now I'm trying to figure out some of the wiring. Right now I'm wondering how to mount the receptacles. Being a pole barn it's got 2x6's mounted horizontally but since they are mounted flush to the outside of the poles I'm having a hard time figuring out how to...

It may or may not work but is there something you could put on top of the concrete, like more concrete? Maybe put an inch of concrete across the entire floor and that would fix the oily floor problem and help to cover any cracks or low areas. Then apply your sealer on top of that.

It generally is very humid in our area. And yes the temps are coming down. The high for the weekend is only around 70 degrees. The concrete trucks really did a number on the ground in front of the shop. It looks like I'm not done moving dirt. I'll have to borrow my neighbor's tractor to...

Thanks. Here are updated pictures. The crew showed up at 5:45am on Thursday to start laying the concrete. And no they were not sneaky enough to not alert the dogs. I thought we were under seige. Then the engines on the cement trucks started screaming to get everything mixed up good before...

I'm trying to figure whether or not I'd be able to run a 100amp service from my house to the garage. The problem is I have a tankless electric hot water heater in my house. It turns out that bad boy uses 36,000 watts of power and is supposed to have a minimum of a 300 amp service to the house...

I went back to the blue corners. I thought it would be a little too stark a contrast. Plus there was a chance of rain last night and I didn't want water getting into the insulation where it was exposed in the corners. They got all the metal on yesterday. It looks like I might come home today to...

Whoa! That's tight. In my county there is a 15' easement and my neighborhood has an ADDITIONAL 25' easement so I had to be at least 40' from the property line. I can't imagine why there would ever be a need for an 80' easement between two properties out here but luckily I've got 10 acres so...

I really like how it looks like it belongs there. Mine doesn't have that look...

Here are some more pictures of the finished skeleton and then of them putting on the siding. I had asked for white trim and for some reason I the only white trim I got was for the garage doors. I wanted white trim on the corners especially. I had to call the builder and get him to change out...

Very nice. I'm having a 30x48 pole barn put up too. So far it's just a skeleton but it'll hopefully be done by the end of this week. How does the size feel to you? Most of my friends and family think my garage is overkill but I'm imagining it getting filled up very quickly and wishing I had...

Re: a few service quiestions Yeah I did some searching around and found this somewhere. I guess that stuff can't get wet and conduit will collect water so I'm not sure why that's what was recommended to me. I don't really know a lot of the nomenclature for electrical work but what I think...

Re: a few service quiestions Oh cool, that mystery is solved then. I think the air compressor at about 20-22 amps and the welder which apparently will be less than 26 amps will probably be the biggest current hogs so I think 100 amp service will be more than enough. Thanks. The other thing...

Re: a few service quiestions Just to give you all an idea of the tools I will have in the garage I'll have something like a 60gal 5hp compressor, a mig welder, possibly a tig in the future, a bandsaw, grinder, belt sander, sand blast cabinet, and a two post lift, plus fluorescent lighting.

1) I've read a lot of threads with people asking how large a panel they need and everyone says that 100amp is plenty. I went to the local building supply store and asked the guy what I needed and told him I'd have a welder or two and he recommended I go with a 200amp panel. I was looking at a...

They're on a roll now. They have all the posts in and girts attached. They just happened to be putting up the first truss when I walked out so I got a few pictures of that momentous occasion. It's amazing how tall 12' is when you can see it. I have to come up with a way to make use of all...

I may be wrong but the pipe being a little bit larger in diameter will help with air flow especially over a long run. I would do it exactly like you said with the 1/2" pipe.

Does that include insulation or concrete? If it does that doesn't seem like a pretty decent price to me.

I think it would be cool to find a nose cone with a spoiler attached to it and mount that to the wall so it looked like it was protruding from the wall. An actual F1 nose cone would be crazy expensive but there are a lot of formula racing series you could get one from. Formula ford, formula...

So I came home to these weird trees with no branches growing out of the yard. It rained a lot here today. They must have gotten these up just before it started pouring this morning because I couldn't find any footprints in the sand. The weird thing I don't understand, and I've never built one...