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I'm putting pole barn metal on my ceiling and I need to plan my attic access. What is the best way to frame and finish attic access thru a metal ceiling. 4 ft between trusses. I'm having trouble getting good results from my searches. Thanks

I'm doing a metal ceiling in my pole barn garage. I've read a few threads about how to locate the cutout for the electrical outlet boxes. Why not use old work boxes with the wings so you don't have to be exact with the location of your cut outs? Anything wrong with that. Is it cheating?

Title says it all. This is a wooden framed pole barn. I have a 100 amp subpanel in the barn and have added a separate ground buss bar and have removed the green bonding screw. I can't find any good instructions for how to properly run the bare ground from my ground bar in the panel to my...

I'm running power underground to my garage. The power lines are 18 inches down in conduit and the ethernet line is going in the same trench only about 3-4 inches down in pvc conduit. The only way I know of to separate the lines coming out of the ground is to 45 the ethernet over right before I...

Going from house panel to detached garage panel underground. Was going to use MHF wire all the way. That means the conduit has to go all the way to the house panel. I don’t know if that can be done without cutting out the drywall and patching. Is there a better way?

I plan on putting a 60 amp breaker in the box in the house and run 2-2-2-4 AL URD underground in conduit to my detached garage. I had to upsize the wire size because it is an 85 ft run to the panel in the garage. I'm going to have my ground attached to the ground in the house and the ground in...

Just had it built last fall and haven't done anything but park my trailer and p/u truck in it. I haven't even run the electrical service to it yet. The main reason for building it was the 2 car garage attached to the house is not big enough for 2 vehicles and all the other "stuff" we have...

I'm looking for a deal on a 20-30 gallon oil lubricated 120 volt air compressor. Anyone seen any ads or deals? Thanks

I'm not sure which sub-forum this should go in so feel free to move if you like. What is the best underground water pipe to run from cistern to house or garage? I think the choices are regular pvc pipe in schedule 40 or 80 or the coiled HDPE pipe. This is cistern only, no well water available...