Electrical set up in barn question

[jbbies]

I have a few questions for you experts. I am putting in a pole barn on my property it will be used for storage for now but I would like to make sure I have covered my bases when it comes to electrical to be installed at a later date. Probably 100A or 125A.
1. I have a 2" schd 80 pvc elec. (90 deg elbow) conduit that I plan to put in before the concrete is poured. Are there any issues I need to think about with this? how deep will I need to have this below ground?

2. What about grounded rods do I need to install any of those or can they be done at a later date?

3. Any other suggestions?

 

[Charles (in GA)]

No idea where you are located. Need to include it in your profile, at least your state.

Code requires you to use a UFER ground on a slab. This is a tie in to the rebar in the perimeter of the slab, at least 20 ft if I recall, of rebar.

 

[jbbies]

Colorado. What does that look like

 

[jbbies]

I am looking at pictures now. Looks like you can use rebar as long as it's half inch? Might do that anyway I am sure it wont hurt anything.

 

[2ManyProjects]

I have a few questions for you experts. I am putting in a pole barn on my property it will be used for storage for now but I would like to make sure I have covered my bases when it comes to electrical to be installed at a later date.

3. Any other suggestions?

In terms of "covering your bases" on things to come in the future, have you considered heat? NOW is the time to plan for this, for several reasons. Not least among those reasons is that you want to make at least some provision for the heating system even BEFORE you pour the slab. In addition to things like bringing in adequate electricity, and maybe a gas line, the BIG thing is to make sure that the slab itself is well insulated from the ground, which usually means pouring it over at least 4 inches of rigid foam insulation (where you are, I might even go for 6-8 inches), and making certain that you have a complete and effective "thermal break" between the slab and the footers. And finally, I will again wave the flag for at least embedding the PEX tubing (capping off the lines at the future manifold location, to keep them clean) at the time the slab is poured, so that you're all ready to go on a future installation of in-floor hydronic heat. Once the slab is poured, it's too late to go back and put those lines in; so you would be stuck with choosing some far less desirable form of heat. But even if I can't convince you to do this, at least DO put in the sub-slab insulation & thermal break, regardless.

 

[jbbies]

Thanks for the info. This will be used 90 percent of the time for vehicles and storage only a small portion of the time will I work in there. I have a shop already. I will just keep a welder and powerwasher out there for the cars so I am not planning on getting crazy with in floor heat and such. Maybe just a wood stove for the occasional use. I probably wont get to the electrical for a year or so. In this part of Colorado it only gets really cold a few months of the year.

 

[2ManyProjects]

Thanks for the info. This will be used 90 percent of the time for vehicles and storage only a small portion of the time will I work in there. I have a shop already. I will just keep a welder and powerwasher out there for the cars so I am not planning on getting crazy with in floor heat and such. Maybe just a wood stove for the occasional use.

Even so, DO insulate the He__ out of the slab. In the long run, it's free money.

I probably wont get to the electrical for a year or so.

That's OK. That job does not get significantly more difficult or more expensive by deferring it. But the slab is a "now or never" proposition.

In this part of Colorado it only gets really cold a few months of the year.

And whatever you store in there (including the vehicles) during those months will thank you profusely if they're kept above freezing. With really good insulation, that's not difficult or expensive to do.