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Lighting advice for new garage

nickm1024cobra

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Building a house with a second garage just for tinkering.

Garage will be 20' wide by 28' deep with a 16' wide garage door. On the right side of the garage, just inside the door will be a 4 post lift with a car stored on top the majority of the time. Back wall and second bay will be work space for general maintenance on lawn equipment, car parts, etc

My original thought was to run 2 rows of LED style stip lights front to back. Probably 2 rows of three. Then, after reading some other threads realized the one strip will just shine down on the roof of the stored car. Some recommended hug the walls and one strip down the center? Any thoughts on how you would lay it out? I really like the low profile LED style like this but have no experience with them.
http://www.lightingproducts.philips.com/our-brands/daybrite/fluxstream-ez.html

Garage has 12' ceiling with high lift garage door with side mount opener. (no center light)

Thanks for any suggestions.
 
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campervan120000

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Indiana
Hello I am new here and joined for similar 'advice' reasons. However to the point, I am an Architect and thought about lighting for a long time, flexibility etc. simplicity of change out etc. So I just wired my garage lighting, garage is 24 wide by 28 deep. I chose a 3,3,3, layout, 4 foot double fittings longitudinally front to back, starting 4 feet of the side walls and a middle row. Spaced centre and 6 feet from the rear wall to centre of fitting and about 7 feet to centre of fitting from the front wall. My fittings are all chain hung and have a plug to outlet arrangement, 9 double outlets on the ceiling. This enables me to remove and relocate as jobs require. If a lamp is wasted say over a vehicle I can simply relocate temporarily or permanently by running from or to any of the adjacent outlets. My ceiling is 11 feet. Works great.
ps. I am a Brit so some of my spellings might differ, i.e. centre or is it center....
 
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