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Sorry for the delayed reply, I was out of town away from computers. My thinking is changing as I read up on all the posts on this site. I think I will heat it to a low temp all the time and then bump it up when I want to work/play in the garage - probably about 1 or 2 nights and a weekend day...

Aceman, okay. Around here we do get frost heaving, so maybe it is a local thing for us. Or maybe for the local electrical contractors the couple of bucks the customer pays for expansion joints is less hassle/cost to the contractor than a callback if the conduit breaks? Dan M, exactly...

What about expansion joints? Do you need those? When I did my detached garage, I was told that they were required where the conduit met the building so if the ground settled or heaved it would slide up or down instead of cracking.

Hi All, I'm getting help on sizing my garage heater in another thread (thank you), but I have another question. While "googling" (is that a word) around for heater information I stumbled across information for an overhead garage heater made by Modine that is hydronic. It is called the Hot...

Thanks all. I am not confident in making a call here, since it is awfully close to size of the smaller one and I don't understand how heater efficiency plays into this. I'm not sure about the temp rise part - it can get down into the negative degrees in the winter, but if I were to say 10...

Hi everyone. I was wondering if I could get some advice on sizing a garage heater. I would like to do a Big Maxx suspended heater, as I had one in my last garage and it worked great for my purposes. And they are pretty reasonably priced at Northern Tool. I've never heated a garage all the...

This worked great, thanks everyone. I got the 100A panel in over the weekend, and everything is up and running. I couldn't be happier. Thanks for the great advice.

Thanks again for the advice. I picked up all the easy stuff at the big box stores - Home Depot had the best price for the QO load center I wanted so I grabbed that and the 100A breaker there. Both HD and Lowes were kind of worthless for cable though - they both had a very poor selection. I...

Hi. When I was looking at 310-16 - what I saw was for 75 deg C for 100 Amp it had to be #3 copper or #1 aluminum, with no correction factors. Did I get that wrong?

Thank you both. I appreciate the insight.

Hi, You have a great site here - some impressive garages! I've been reading for months, and slowly getting my garage together. It is very modest compared to a lot of the stuff you have going on here. The garage is a 28x28 attached, with 10'-6" ceilings, 2x6 16" OC construction. It has two...