I just finished up the electrical on my garage/shop. It's been a long/expensive process, but I'm pretty happy with it. The building is 32x24 with 10' ceilings. I live in a place where it gets COLD, (-70 F), so it's primary purpose in the winter is a home for my truck. Still, it leaves me half of the building for a shop, with the ability to expand into the other half for 5-6 of the warmer months a year.
Although a lot of jobs were contracted out on it, a lot of the project was done by my stepfather and myself.
So far all I've got is a band saw, dust collector fresh out of the box, and some sanding, grinding and buffing equipment that my grandfather gave me. I don't have any good finished interior pictures at the moment, but here are some from the construction process:
Here is the foundation going in. There is 2" rigid foam under the entire foundation, with gravel piled in the middle to make the footing thicker.
It's got in-floor insulation for higher comfort factor:
Here is the basic structure started. I've got one 8x10' garage door, and two man doors.
For the foundation, I put in 4' of rigid foam against the slab, and another 18' buried horizontally.
In addition to 6" of blown-in insulation, there are 2" of rigid foam around the outside of the structure under the siding. It gives me a total of R-43 in the walls, with the ceiling sitting around R-55.
Rather than pull off the 100A house line, I upped the power at the pole to 200A, and had a separate 100A breaker put in for the garage, then trenched it in directly to the building. (This was stupid expensive, but gives me a lot more capacity and peace of mind).
Here is the exterior finished... minus the stain and seal, which went on this summer.
I'll post some interior stuff next week after I've had a chance to clean it up a little.
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Originally Posted by Jason Fastenau
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