I have a few to add. I have been working on my standard 2 car garage on and off
for the past year. I have 220 service installed to a sub panel from which I
have 20 amp outlets branching every 4 feet along the newly insulated and dry
walled walls. The job was actually very easy for a DYI homeowner with some
books from the library. The insulation allows me to warm the garage to a
reasonable temperature with a simple space heater.
Additionally I have 4 500W halogen lights on the ceiling facing down to an
epoxied gray floor. I hope to some day add drop down air, electricity and a
light on winding reels. The biggest mistake that I made is buying a modern 5 hp
air direct drive air compressor, very, very loud, I should have purchased an
old style belt driven one.
Paul Murch
64 B
REwald9535@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 01/02/2000 6:59:26 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> JohnOmg@aol.com writes:
>
> > Any ideas on dimensions, sideways
> > storage, etc.
>
> Yeah I've got a couple of ideas. As mentioned in another post deep is good
> as you can sideways park an LBC in the front of the garage. (I have a friend
> that did this with a Mini in the front of his parents standard 2 car garage)
> I am more concerned with wide. Make the garage wide enough that you can line
> both sides with cabinets/work benches and still get doors open on the cars
> parked inside. Like the ads say wider is better.
> A few other ideas, Electricity, wire the place for 220 (assuming you are in
> the US) so you can run a welder or whatever. As far as lights go take the
> recommended amount of light for a workshop and double it. You will be glad
> you did. My 2 car garage has 8 four foot flourescents and 5 eight footers
> and it has almost enough light. Put electric outlets everywhere! At bench
> level so you don't have to get down on the floor and dig behind stuff to plug
> in something.
> If plumbing can be installed a laundry sink with hot water is really nice and
> will keep the SO happy when you don't mess up her sink washing your hands.
> Hope this helps,
> Rick Ewald
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