Can you ever have enough outlets? | Tom Mandera's Big Sky Binders

Nah...





Every half of a wall has 6 or so outlets, on one 20amp circuit. A box on every stud.

Getting closer to actually having my shop ready.. most of the 110 wiring will be finished up tonight. Dennis was kind enough to come by last Sunday and helped me get the sub-panel in the shop "hot".. and as if that wasn't enough, he's stopping by tonight to help finish up the branch circuits.

Tomorrow Helena Insulation comes by to put 3" of Corbond into the wall cavities (R-21). Since I have 2x6 studs, I'll still have a 3" cavity behind the drywall that I can run wire easily enough. I'll do the 220 stuff after the insulation.

Home Depot opens this week, so mebbe I'll get some drywall delivered and start sheetrocking before too much longer. Woo-hoo.

Still need to finish the gasline ditch to the house so I can kick on the 200,000 BTU heater though..

Tentative Layout..

I think you will never run out of places to plug stuff in! You must be running one heck of a big breaker box to be able to split up all those plugs. I count 12 on that wall alone.

6 (from the window to the wall) at the 4' mark are on one 20amp circuit (with a 7th outlet through the wall and outside). The rest (from the window to the camera) at 4' are on another circuit.

And the ones at the 8' mark are on a third circuit.

In my mom's garage, I put an outlet every 3', and found myself running out of outlets sometimes (I wanted to plug the grinder, drill press, and blast cabinet in at the same spot).. so this time, they're every 2'.

It's a 20 or 24 slot 100amp box.

I'm planning on a total of about 12 110V breakers in it, which'll leave 8-12 for 220. (which is 4-6 220 breakers, since they're double-wides).

I'm going to run two small sub-panels. One where the compressors/oven will be, the other between the two garage doors, for welders.

It'll mean I can't use a 220V stick welder AND a 220V MIG *at the same time* on full power.. but I don't see why I would want to anyhow.

Adding it all up tho'.. the box just might be darn near full when I'm done. Maybe I'll get a couple of the half-size breakers just to leave a slot or two open.

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Dennis helped me finish up what was left of the "let's get this done before" wiring last night, then we cleaned / consolidated the mess into the center so the crew can have ~8' of working area.

I can't believe the weather.. it was 50deg this morning when I left for work.. how did I luck into having them come spray today?

(If it's much below 50deg, the Corbond doesn't expand at the right rate. The result is still just as good, but the quantity of material used, and the *cost*, goes way up.)

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South wall was done on Sunday...

Half of the west wall is *done*, half has the wire run and waiting to put receptacles in. Dennis did most of the " no receptacles" section - notice how much neater it looks vs. the stuff I did? :D

Oh yeah, I moved Michelle's Scout outside to make room for the workers.

While finishing clean-up, I noticed that Oscar had marked his spot again.. but this was a good thing.

I grabbed the roll of papertowels and wiped the oil up. 3 papertowels later, and there's just a little film on the floor.

NO STAIN.

If the floor was smoother, I might've gotten it all up. As it sits, I'm convinced that just a little bit of "something" to help dilute it / pick it up (say, some 409?) and the oil droppings would be GONE with out a trace.

You might recall I spent an unpleasant week or so scrubbing, degreasing, acid etching, priming, and painting the entire shop floor.

The oil wipe up was one of the big reasons, and this little test was a success thus far. Woo-hoo.

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11/19 and 20th (AM)

It looks deeper in places, shallower in others.. wires on top might be a little shallow in places, but we can always cut it a little if we really feel the need.