Conduit, boxes and wire run for the outlets along the walls.

The "up-and-over" over the old breaker box is because that's my only source of power until the utility company hooks me up. Plus I'd have had to re-run a bunch of romex. Easier to leave it. I'll wire it as a sub-panel off the new box and then I can pull the direct burial that feeds it now and put up that last bit of dry wall.

Waiting on the LED shop lights to arrive, then I'll run the conduit, boxes and wire for them.

After running around in circles and barking at the moon for a couple of months, I FINALLY got a guy to set a pole for me.

I'll call the utility folks Monday and see if I can schedule the hookup.

So I’m a fan of gloss white epoxy on the walls, and honestly, white floors, if you think you can keep it remotely clean enough.

Might not be needed in Maine too much, but if your building is doing that well, a small mini split would probably be enough to keep it cool, always, abd the cost comes back in increased productivity

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Originally posted by satch:
Decades ago a contractor told me insulation was the cheapest investment you can make in a building.

My house was built in 1951 before insulation was really a thing. We have a third floor attic bedroom/dormer that was added on in 1963 and I found the blueprints for it and it actually had insulation diagrammed on it almost like that was an optional upgrade

I’d love to insulate this house but the only way I think I could do it is the spray in foam kind where they find all the voids in the walls, drill holes and pump the foam in. Not sure if it’s really worth the expense, I’m sure it’s not cheap. I’m brick over block with a very early form of drywall on the inside, it’s more like cement board than modern drywall.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:


The shed was originally built on a slab. In hindsight, I wish I'd have had it power troweled, but at the time it was only for storage so it's got a broom finish.

Some of the concrete floor coatings would smooth it out a lot.
Do it before you move everything in!!
(ask me how I know that)

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Originally posted by gjgalligan:

Some of the concrete floor coatings would smooth it out a lot.
Do it before you move everything in!!
(ask me how I know that)

I'm looking into self-leveling epoxy. I'd like to do at least where the lathe is gonna go to make it easier to level it.

The prep work looks like a huge (and expensive) pain in the ass, but there's not much point in doing it without proper prep I imagine.

Ran a loop of 3/4" RapidAir Maxline today. A kit with all the fittings (less the chuck) for three drops and 100' of tubing was $200-ish.

VERY nice stuff, the air blocks are nicely machined out of billet aluminum, all the fittings are either stainless or brass, and includes drain valves at each drop.

I was a little worried about bending the tubing without kinking it, but it turns out the 3/4" conduit bender I bought for the electrical work is perfect for that.

If I was going to run a LOT of that tubing, I'd make or buy the straightener for it (it comes coiled up) but I managed with a 3 foot piece of appropriately-sized PVC and the trusty Beer Belly Clamp.

Still waiting on the electrons, hoping for this week coming. Pretty much everything else is done, less the furnace. Keeping an eye on Craigslist for that and if it doesn't happen by cold weather, I'm pretty sure my propane salamander will git 'er done as well insulated as the building is.

Spotted a down-draft mobile home furnace on Craigslist for what seemed like a fair price and only 100 miles away.

Been seeing all sorts of furnaces, but they're either priced into the stratosphere, located way-the-hell down around Portland or Kittery, complete junk or all of the above. A lot of "The heat exchanger is cracked but it works okay" stuff.

This one was $250, just removed from the shop and works fine, solid heat exchanger, just needs a thermostat. Sounded too good to be true but had to go look at it. Amazingly, it was just as advertised and included the tank valve and filter canister along with a bunch of chimney and ductwork tin.

I'll build a base/plenum to set it on and connect the ductwork to and have my furnace guy whip a tune up on it and I should be good for heat.

WOO! And likewise, HOO!!

I finally have power to my new shop! It's been one fustercluck after another since May, but the stars finally aligned.

They were here a week ago today to set an anchor to add a guy wire to the transformer pole but couldn't because there was an impenetrable jungle of alders and thorny vines where the anchor needed to go. I got a note saying they'd schedule their sub to clear the area (they own the pole and the land it sits on) but I could see that taking at LEAST another month.

So I warmed up the chainsaw and brush cutter and cleared it my damn self and then sent them a picture. Sent the picture yesterday afternoon when I got done clearing the area, they showed up with two trucks today around noon. Auger truck to set the anchor, bucket truck to pull the line. Could've knocked me over with a feather, I figured sometime next week would be the earliest I could expect them.

Now I can start moving equipment! There'll be pictures in a few days.

I'm stoked!

PS: Yakking with the crew afterwards, they said they have 14 guys to cover all of Hancock County, which is the 5th largest in the state at 2350 square miles.

Congratulations.

Getting people to do their job these days is a real PITA.

Grandson showed up on schedule and we moved the heavy stuff. The lathe was ALL the Kubota wanted to pick up. I didn't have room to hang anything off the back for a counterweight while maneuvering in the garage and as I transitioned from the garage floor to the driveway, I got daylight under the left rear. Once I got it outside and unclenched my cheeks enough to get out of the cab, I set it down and went down and put the mower on the back. MUCH happier that way.

The compressor was a bit of a beast to work with once we got it through the door. Working it over so there's JUST enough clearance to close the door was all about pry bars and blocking.

Picking the furnace up and setting on it's pedestal/plenum turned out to be pretty anti-climatic by comparison.

Now I just have to finish plumbing the air, wire up the motor starter for the compressor, wire the safeties for the furnace and run the duct work. Shop is usable as is except for the lack of air.

^^^
That is lookin’ real snazzy! Can’t wait to see what kind of trouble you get yerself into ;-)

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Originally posted by smlsig:
^^^
That is lookin’ real snazzy! Can’t wait to see what kind of trouble you get yerself into ;-)

Thanks for the update, soon you will be able to make noise, sawdust, metal shavings and mistakes, not necessarily in that order.

Got this ^^^ note from one of my brothers. Methinks he knows me too well...