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Enjoy seeing your progress. What a great idea for shop space.

Keep up the good work.

-nicky

Incredible shop space. It will be great to see each stage of its completion.

-- Chris ** If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. — Tom Paine **

It’s really coming along. Looksike you have a good amount of space and you’ll have a comfortable place to work

Ferdinand and Son Construction

You are making great progress. Keep at it and you will be surprised how quickly it comes together for you. Have you considered dust collection yet? This might be a great opportunity to install an under the floor system. Please keep posting the pix.

-- Art

I have really started thinking about dust collection lately, Art. The TS makes some dust, the jointer a bit more, but the planer!!! That thing makes a LOT! An under the floor system will be ideal, since I can access it at any time. I have to have an exact layout of the shop though, which I don’t have yet. I have to figure it out soon though because I am ready to start installing floor outlets for the equipment. The wiring will be in conduit under the building so removing or moving an outlet won’t be a problem later.

Where are the band-aids?---Pro Libertate!

“…The wiring will be in conduit under the building so removing or moving an outlet won’t be a problem later….”

I’m a bit confused by this Monty. Are you installing several blank access boxes under the floor in order to have access to the wiring (to tap into in the future)? Or are you mounting boxes in the floor, during construction, with blank covers for now?

HorizontalMike

Thats going to make a great shop….keep posting!
Mike

Mike

I’ll be hanging unistrut under the building Mike. If I want to add an outlet, it’s just a matter of running the conduit, cutting a box in the floor and piping it down. Granted, if I want to move an outlet, I can remove the conduit from the box, pull the wire out and re-route both conduit and wire to the new location, but I would have to install a blank plate on the old box. Remember, this is a mobile home, with plenty of access under it to move around. Adding a wall outlet would be a bit trickier, but it could be done with romex through a stub up. I’ll be pulling THHN everywhere the conduit is continuous.

I can’t do any of that (especially the unistrut and floor boxes) until after the electrical inspection. The inspector would poop a turnip if he saw it.

Thanks Moke. I tinker on it as I can. The next major project is getting the power pole set and getting the electric on. Right now I’m operating on a 100’ 20A extension cord. The sooner I can get the power on the better!

Where are the band-aids?---Pro Libertate!