Compressor outside garage?

[pepi]

Outside best practice more room in the garage.

 

[Dragfluid]

Outside best practice more room in the garage.

For temperatures like you have, sure. Not up here.

 

[rattle_snake]

Did you pour the pad or purchase a pre-cast pad? I am in the decision-making process of doing the exact same thing you've laid out.

I poured my own slab. I think it is about 36x36x4. rebar around perimeter. Not that many 60lb bags. Details are in my shop build thread, linked in sig

Note on feet, it is claimed that rigid mounting can crack the tank.
I made isolators top/bottom and use rubber hose to sleeve the stud, so complete isolation. Probably overkill but easy enough.



current status, now with 'natural' rust.

 

[Metallitubby]

I poured my own slab. I think it is about 36x36x4. rebar around perimeter. Not that many 60lb bags. Details are in my shop build thread, linked in sig

Thank you for the information!

 

[Jawn]

Did you pour the pad or purchase a pre-cast pad? I am in the decision-making process of doing the exact same thing you've laid out.

You've got that nice lean to for shelter. It would be a good place for it.

 

[CJGLLY]

Look into California Air Tools, they make unbelievably quiet air compressors. We just bought two 1hp 4.5 gallon compressors from them. I know this is smaller than whats needed in a garage but they run at 60 decibels, its incredible.

 

[Spareparts]

I have got a 5hp/ 80 gal upright in the 5' X 8' bumpout in my shop. That area gave me a lot of shelf storage, walls are spray fomed and the ceiling has acoustic tile. I put a muffler on the air intake with a automotive air filter, the muffler is actually a automotive glass pack. It quitened it down amazingly well, actually talked on my phone close to it.

 

[coljar]

Mine lives in the shop back room with the HVAC, toilet, and sink.

 

[Metallitubby]

You've got that nice lean to for shelter. It would be a good place for it.

That's where it's going. Right next to the A/C outdoor unit.