Step by step photos of new garage

[gemini5362]

Roger I have my garage doors in place and have one of my openers installed. If the weather dont rain me out this weekend I need to finish getting the decking and sideing on my gables finished. It really looks a lot better with the doors in place. I like the ventless heaters. My insurance agent does not know I have them. I dont know if it would make a difference or not but I am not going to ask them. I have a heat pump which I use for my main heat. The wood stove is for decoration mostly and the ventless heaters allow me to heat individual rooms sepeartely of the house. I dont know why they would not let people use them I just know that my insurance agent told me that I had to have heaters with seperate thermostats on them before they would insure things. One difference is that I was talking about rental houses and the insurance industry treats those differently than a house you live in. If you do get the ventless heater get the infrared type. It still burns a flame but not an open flame and the room I use that in seems to get warmer faster than the other identical room with the open flame type.

 

[mopacman]

build an outside wood heater and run heat ducks into the shop. this is what I am going to do to my caban

 

[roermo]

Hi all ,going to run the electric for the receptacles around the garage walls today. Looks like a good day for it, winter still has a good hold on us and we are to get maybe another 6inchs of snow or more. So it will be fun working out in the garage while I watch the snow fall.

Question once again. How high do you put the plug ins off the floor. In a home I put them 16 inches. I asked the inspector there is no code for the garage. One friend of mine puts them 16 inches, another 48 inches. I like the iedea of being off the ground more because of hosing out the garage and not bending over. What do you all think.

Thanks

Roger

 

[mudcat]

Roermo, I would mount your outlet at 48" in the garage. A lot of volatile fumes commonly found in a garage are heavier than air and like to hang out on the floor.

 

[Farwell]

Hi all ,going to run the electric for the receptacles around the garage walls today. Looks like a good day for it, winter still has a good hold on us and we are to get maybe another 6inchs of snow or more. So it will be fun working out in the garage while I watch the snow fall.

Question once again. How high do you put the plug ins off the floor. In a home I put them 16 inches. I asked the inspector there is no code for the garage. One friend of mine puts them 16 inches, another 48 inches. I like the iedea of being off the ground more because of hosing out the garage and not bending over. What do you all think.

Thanks

Roger

Roger,
I mount most of my plugs at approximately 50 inches from the floor (just clearing the horizontally mounted OSB sheet seams) and use 4 plugs per box. Another thing I do is pay the bucks and get the 20 amp plugs that have the back loaded screw pinch type wiring set-up. The plugs that I mount closer to the floor (approximately 16") are for specific uses. Another reason for the 50 inch height is so the plugs will be above anything that I lean against the wall. I also take into consideration mounting plugs in areas where I plan on having work benches or cabinets. I have not done it, but I also plan on putting several twist lock plugs in my ceiling for stationary power tools. Every circuit in my shop is ground fault protected except for the welder plug. Putting a few 220volt outlets may also a good idea if your power panel has the breakers for them. You can never have too many plugs.
David B

 

[gemini5362]

Roger,
I mount most of my plugs at approximately 50 inches from the floor (just clearing the horizontally mounted OSB sheet seams) and use 4 plugs per box. Another thing I do is pay the bucks and get the 20 amp plugs that have the back loaded screw pinch type wiring set-up. The plugs that I mount closer to the floor (approximately 16") are for specific uses. Another reason for the 50 inch height is so the plugs will be above anything that I lean against the wall. I also take into consideration mounting plugs in areas where I plan on having work benches or cabinets. I have not done it, but I also plan on putting several twist lock plugs in my ceiling for stationary power tools. Every circuit in my shop is ground fault protected except for the welder plug. Putting a few 220volt outlets may also a good idea if your power panel has the breakers for them. You can never have too many plugs.
David B

you mentioned that every circuit is ground fault protected. Do you have ground fault protected receptacles in each position or just run receptacles down stream from a protected receptacle.

 

[EddieWalker]

I put the bottom of the box at four feet so I can fit a full sheet of OSB under it and only have to notch the top one. I also like to use single boxes , but put lots of them in. On another shop, I put in the double boxes and found that I'd rather have twice as many boxes closer together. A box every four feet is just about perfect.

If you know of a tool that will stay pluged in all the time, put in another dedicated box for that too.

While your running your electrical, plan on some runs that you can tap into later on from the outside. I put four seperate 12/2 lines from my panel to a box mounted to the ouside wall of my shope that are available for future use.

When I want to use one, I just wire it to a breaker and run the line from the outside box.

Eddie

 

[fullmetal]

Hi all ,going to run the electric for the receptacles around the garage walls today. Looks like a good day for it, winter still has a good hold on us and we are to get maybe another 6inchs of snow or more. So it will be fun working out in the garage while I watch the snow fall.

Question once again. How high do you put the plug ins off the floor. In a home I put them 16 inches. I asked the inspector there is no code for the garage. One friend of mine puts them 16 inches, another 48 inches. I like the iedea of being off the ground more because of hosing out the garage and not bending over. What do you all think.

Thanks

Roger

Consider using industrial or commercial grade receptacles. At least use them in your high use outlets, such as near a workbench. The contractor grade or residential grade receptacles will not hold up to repeated use. One of the nice features is a nylon face. It is virtually unbreakable.

The downside is the cost. They are double or triple the price of the cheap outlets. Don't forget that you get what you pay for.

FullMetal

 

[Farwell]

you mentioned that every circuit is ground fault protected. Do you have ground fault protected receptacles in each position or just run receptacles down stream from a protected receptacle.

I run 6 plugs (3 double boxes) off of each GFI. The first plug is a GFI the rest are standard plugs.
David B

 

[BayouMan]

Roger,

A lot of good suggestions on where to place your outlets. Most homes today require them to be 18" above the floor. If you are concerned about blocking outlets, do as Eddie says, put them just above 4' above floor.

If you use a GFI receptacle for the first one in line from the breaker box, then you can use regular receptacles downstream. They are protected by the GFI. Have to make sure that all ground connections are made or the GFI will trip out. I agree about using the 20 amp receptacles. They are easier to wire up and several have plastic covers to snap over the screws to prevent any chance of a short.

Keep up the good work. I feel bad about complaining about our 50 degree days here in Louisiana.

Mike