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New member, new build. Help please.

AlbertaLML

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Sep 20, 2019
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Rocky Mountain House Canada
Hey guys. I’ve never actually built my own garage before, and most of the time when I am researching it leads me to this page. Figured I would create an account and see what you guys think of my current plan.

Getting ready to put shovels in the ground at the end of September for a 36x40ft w/ 12 ft ceilings pole building. There is going to be two 12x10 foot bay doors, 4 windows – 2 south and 2 west. I was going to situate things like hot water heater, pressure tank, sink etc in the south east corner where the water line from a property. I have an existing sewer line to the west that I will eventually tie into for wash water and leave an access point on the west side before it exits the building. We have a well for the house right by the power pole so I need to run cold water through the building to tie into the other well if we have another dry year, and run a hot water line to the front for pressure washing outside etc. Plan was to route the floor drain out the back, have 220v on the 3 interior walls that don’t have doors. I’m not doing in floor heat as I work away quite a bit, just a big forced air unit in one of the corners. (100,000 btu?). Has anyone installed an on-demand water heater?

Thought I would just throw this out to the masses and see what you guys have done that worked great, things you wish you would have done or any comments suggestions at all would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys.
 

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matt_i

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I wouldn't put any more pipes under the building than you must. Its a huge pitfall when you have a line that's leaking, you don't know where, must start unloading the building of its contents to tear out part of the slab to dig, the excavated dirt has to go inside the building, huge mess.....when if the lines were placed a couple of feet outside the foundation then it would just be digging, all the dirt & mud stays outside where its supposed to be.

Sewer under, is understandably required, but its also not (usually) under any pressure and just a drain line.

I also don't fully comprehend the electrical pathway on the diagonal.
 
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