Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT Chris_P's 30x40x14 Build

[penutbuter]

My house service meter is mounted on my house. The newer homes are ours here have a pedestal with meter at the front property line near the service (road). My options from MidSouth were either a new meter service or a new double lug meter on my house with larger gauge wire ran from the transformer that is 400 amps. Technically i think it’s it is a 320 amp service.

Fantastic. Hopefully I can get them to give me a few more amps and I will just run underground primary from the meter.

I have a house mounted meter and typical 200a service now. But I can trench out to the corner of the shop from there in under 120' shouldn't even have too much line loss with aluminum at that distance.

 

[Chris_P]

This is what I may do in the future. At the moment we run a few gas appliances so the 200 Amp service we have should allow me to add a double 100 amp breaker to the existing house panel. If we ever need to get more than 100 amps, the setup will allow a double lug to be installed and reconnect to that.

 

[Chris_P]

Here are the latest developments:

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High-centered the trencher...

 

[j p smith]

Here are the latest developments:

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High-centered the trencher...

Chris, in the picture that shows the galvanized pipe coming up out of the trench, think about extending the galvanized pipe out from the 90 6 to 10 inches. With what you have it will be real easy to break the plastic line or fitting. By extending the 6 to 10 inches it gives you a stronger corner. Hope this makes sense to you. You have a great looking shop by the way

 

[Chris_P]

Chris, in the picture that shows the galvanized pipe coming up out of the trench, think about extending the galvanized pipe out from the 90 6 to 10 inches. With what you have it will be real easy to break the plastic line or fitting. By extending the 6 to 10 inches it gives you a stronger corner. Hope this makes sense to you. You have a great looking shop by the way

I guess I’m not understanding where the extra 6-10 inches would go. Are you meaning having 6-10 inches of galvanized pipe on the horizontal section before the 90 degree elbow? Please explain.
Thanks

 

[Chrisb62]

Not speaking for j p smith ,but yes the horizontal section, it fact I would suggest closer to 12".
It would make for a much stronger corner in case it gets bumped by a mower or something like that.
Looks great so far , will be checking in often.

Chris B

 

[Chris_P]

Ok that's what I thought. Does anyone know the best way to secure the riser portion to the building?

By the way, I wish this board had a sub forum of piping/plumbing for water, air, etc.

 

[Chrisb62]

Ok that's what I thought. Does anyone know the best way to secure the riser portion to the building?

By the way, I wish this board had a sub forum of piping/plumbing for water, air, etc.

Personal preference would be 4x4 post outside of concrete so no holes in building.
But have seen short pieces of unistrut bolted to building with clamp holding pipe to unistrut.
Powder coating unistrut to match building to blend in helps.

 

[Chris_P]

Personal preference would be 4x4 post outside of concrete so no holes in building.
But have seen short pieces of unistrut bolted to building with clamp holding pipe to unistrut.
Powder coating unistrut to match building to blend in helps.

Thanks for the idea.

 

[penutbuter]

Looks good! What are you doing for lighting?

 

[Chris_P]

Looks good! What are you doing for lighting?

Looking to use these in 9k and 15k varieties.

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[penutbuter]

Very cool! Those should like the place up nicely. I am torn between these and the UFOs.

 

[Chris_P]

Very cool! Those should like the place up nicely. I am torn between these and the UFOs.

Yeah I was too. I liked the specs and light distribution on the CPHB

 

[j p smith]

I guess I’m not understanding where the extra 6-10 inches would go. Are you meaning having 6-10 inches of galvanized pipe on the horizontal section before the 90 degree elbow? Please explain.
Thanks

Sorry I did not explain better but exactly what Chrisb62 said.

 

[j p smith]

Ok that's what I thought. Does anyone know the best way to secure the riser portion to the building?

By the way, I wish this board had a sub forum of piping/plumbing for water, air, etc.

I think there would be a large selection of ideas to pick from. I usually feed the line, glavy or copper, up thru a 3" piece of square tubing to a drilled hole about 4" down from the top, stick the street el through the hole and thread on the faucet, at the lower end tape any areas that will come in contact with the concrete, then 1 or 2 bags of premix to set the square tube, cap on top for a finished look. I will get a picture of one of mine when I get home this evening

 

[Chris_P]

I think there would be a large selection of ideas to pick from. I usually feed the line, glavy or copper, up thru a 3" piece of square tubing to a drilled hole about 4" down from the top, stick the street el through the hole and thread on the faucet, at the lower end tape any areas that will come in contact with the concrete, then 1 or 2 bags of premix to set the square tube, cap on top for a finished look. I will get a picture of one of mine when I get home this evening

Please do.

 

[j p smith]

Please do.

Chris here are 2 of my faucet stands, these I did using copper with flanged 90 degree fittings out side the square tubing. The copper lines were taped with 4 mil tape where the copper is in the concrete, the 90 at the bottom has a 10/12 inch extension to the female fitting that the plastic threads into.

 

[Chris_P]

This is a mock-up of the install. I plan add some quickcrete as a footer for the post but waiting to see if Hurricane Ida is going to bring us some rain.

 

[Chrisb62]

Chris here are 2 of my faucet stands, these I did using copper with flanged 90 degree fittings out side the square tubing. The copper lines were taped with 4 mil tape where the copper is in the concrete, the 90 at the bottom has a 10/12 inch extension to the female fitting that the plastic threads into.

Those look awesome.......

 

[Chrisb62]

This is a mock-up of the install. I plan add some quickcrete as a footer for the post but waiting to see if Hurricane Ida is going to bring us some rain.

That looks like it will work quite well

 

[j p smith]

This is a mock-up of the install. I plan add some quickcrete as a footer for the post but waiting to see if Hurricane Ida is going to bring us some rain.

Looks good Chris!

 

[mannydantyla]

Looking good, Chris! What underground wire did you use? The very next thing on my to do list is digging and installing the wire to my detached garage that I'm building. I might only need 60 amps max, but like you I have a 200 amp panel at the house and use less then 100amps.

 

[Chris_P]

Thanks!

I bought the wire from Lowe’s
4/0-4/0-4/0-2/0 Aluminum Mobile Home Feeder Service Entrance Cable (By-the-Foot)
Item #: 70262|Model #: 28714401

And I installed it in 2” conduit. Don’t forget the cable lube! It pulls easy through the the straights but add bends and the lube is needed.

 

[mannydantyla]

Perfect! That is what I'll use too.

 

[penutbuter]

Looks good. And more so, I'm glad Ida decided to turn north a bit and leave us alone.

 

[Chris_P]

One of our doors (purchased independently of our builder) was delivered and installed. Now waiting for the other 3 roll up doors and concrete drive.

 

[Chris_P]

Driveway starts today!

 

[Chrisb62]

Bet you can't wait......looking great.

 

[Chris_P]

 

[Chris_P]

Now I need to get cracking on emt conduit runs for electric distribution. Feeling a little overwhelmed with it at the moment…

 

[Chrisb62]

Nice concrete.....................small bites Chris...small bites, it will get done

 

[jbrentd]

Congrats on the driveway extension, looks good!

 

[Chris_P]

Nice concrete.....................small bites Chris...small bites, it will get done

Yep, little at a time I’m telling myself

 

[Chris_P]

Congrats on the driveway extension, looks good!

Thanks!

 

[Chris_P]

Here is my first “long run” circuit for the overhead door opener:

 

[kberjian]

Love the doors! Can never have too much natural light in my opinion.

The conduit runs are a pain but it looks clean and will last forever. Good work.

 

[penutbuter]

Now I need to get cracking on emt conduit runs for electric distribution. Feeling a little overwhelmed with it at the moment…

Remember to plan out your circuits well and then add an extra one or two just in case. You can't have too many outlets and putting them now will save you later. Get a book of numbers before you start running to keep it all square.

When you are running to the far side of the room use 3/4 or 1" and put a handful of circuits to distribute on the other side. it'll save you in time down the line and keep you from having a ton of overhead runs.

That first set of runs looks good!

 

[Chris_P]

Thanks! Maybe you could stop by and give me some ideas on a layout.

 

[Chris_P]

Love the doors! Can never have too much natural light in my opinion.

The conduit runs are a pain but it looks clean and will last forever. Good work.

Thanks. Yeah that door was my wife’s request. I would like to have some natural light coming through the roof but I detest leaks.

 

[Chris_P]

Great night to work on running electrical circuits and just enjoying our building (even if we still don’t have our roll up doors).