48x39x14 shop build

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#161  
Love the ceiling! Are you going to put a porch or awning over the man door? We could never get away with out one because of the snow here.

Thanks.

No plans for anything over the doors.
 
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#162  
I've been using Hormann Doors and Openers for 25 years in Austria... so far so good.

These are my first. I am impressed with the quality. Well sealed at the panel joints. Really like the rollers. Smoothest operating doors I've owned. I'd have to look for certain, but I think they were just under $2K each.
 
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Here's some current boring electrical conduit pics. I used quadplex deep boxes. Plenty of plug ins and plenty of room inside the box for wiring.

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I stole the wire trough idea from a large commercial shop build project that I visited. The troughs there had dozens of conduits coming out of them.

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Love the ceiling! Are you going to put a porch or awning over the man door? We could never get away with out one because of the snow here.


I guess I kinda lied..... I put an awning over Willard's door. :)



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Ed Dedic,

Took anothe look at your doors. They must be 10x10?

I was told by Hormann that I could have used jackshaft openers if my doors were only 10ft tall. Or if I had 16ft ceilings I could have used different track at the elbow and ceiling. The other track would park the open door at more of an angle rather than horizontally flat. This would have the door trying to roll closed all the time and elimate the slack cable problem.

I wonder why-the Lifemaster guy spec’d a heavier duty version ( than the ones on my house garage doors) for my 12x16 steel door
 
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I wonder why-the Lifemaster guy spec’d a heavier duty version ( than the ones on my house garage doors) for my 12x16 steel door

I don't remember what model mine are. They are much heavier duty than Ed's. My Son has three like Ed's, they work fine on his 10x10 doors.

Friend of mine is building a large shop. They are using Liftmaster units similar in size to mine. But they turn the torsion spring shaft via gears and a bicycle chain. They mount on the wall a couple feet below the shaft. They also use a "buggy spring" looking affair that puts downward pressure on the doors when they are full open. They are 10x12 doors.
 
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Ed Dedic,

Took another look at your doors. They must be 10x10?

I was told by Hormann that I could have used jackshaft openers if my doors were only 10ft tall. Or if I had 16ft ceilings I could have used different track at the elbow and ceiling. The other track would park the open door at more of an angle rather than horizontally flat. This would have the door trying to roll closed all the time and eliminate the slack cable problem.

Yes, my doors are 10'W x 9'H. My ceilings are 10' as I have a 2 bdrm apartment above. I never heard of a slack issue with the cable. I have a cable tensioner thing on each door cable that is connected electronically into the system. To be honest, not sure what it does, if anything but I do remember the installer mentioning it. Looks like you could have done the LJ8900W for up to 180 Sq Ft of door.
 

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