-> Use the sun if you can. Skylights are a big win -
Chris is right.
My shop has no windows, no skylights, no external hardware for the two
fold-up bay doors, and it has a dead-bolted steel door with a "screen
door" of expanded wire mesh with a dead bolt on that too. I built it
that way because of the neighborhood I live in. Working inside, even
with the doors open, requires at least three of the double 8'
flourescents on; I have six, independently switched, with some extra 4'
fixtures in a few areas.
My Dad's shop is a 30x60. It has four 4x8 fiberglass panels in the
roof. Not even the particularly clear stuff, just the
fiberglass-colored stuff. He seldom needs to turn his lights on at all;
on an average day his shop is more brightly lit than mine. He has lots
of lights for working at night, of course.
I was impressed at how much light the skylights admitted. If I were do
do my shop over again, I'd include some skylights, though I'd have to
back them up with rebar or wire grate to keep the "socially
disadvantaged youths" out.
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