New Shop

[AnthonyS]

That's awesome!

[dannystarr]

I was wrong about the eve height, it is 12 feet not 10'-8". Not sure what I was thinking.

Got the insulated 10' X 10' metal doors installed. I could have saved a few hundred bucks if I got the plastic backs. Went with ALL metal. Nice spring steel door stops for all 4.

Starting electrical. Got the main 200amp service panel tied into the meter in the old shop, tested 246 volts. 123 on each leg. Zero Volts on the neutral. Dug/picked a 50-foot ditch about 22 inches deep to run power to new shop. Fun with 2 torn rotator cuffs. Neighbor helped a few feet. Pulled the wire through 10 feet at a time. Then slid a 10-foot length over the wire and glued and dropped in the ditch and so on. Pulled last stretch into the new shop and tied into 100amp subpanel. Turned on breaker in old shop and this panel also tested good. Buried the ditch and getting ready to start pulling wire for lights. Lights first, so I can see what I am doing. Then outlets, future door openers, 2 lifts etc... I hung a couple lights as a clearance test. I was lucky that the lights clear the doors by a couple inches. So I hung the last 6. Danny

[dannystarr]

power etc.

[dannystarr]

Not much room for 30 feet of the 50 for a trencher. Too close to building. I wish I could have.

FYI on the electrical... Got a couple questions on neutrals and grounds in the panel.
Only the main service panel has the green grounding screw to bond the neutral and grounds together. Sub panel is NOT bonded and has separate ground and neutral bars. This is the way I was taught years ago. NEVER bond the sub panel due to neutral return issues. Stray voltage has nowhere to go properly and tracks off and bleeds into other circuits. Which is not good. Needs a clear path back to the source.

I ended up tieing into the meter panel by myself. I just had the power company come out and disconnect at the transformer. Then I made my connections, torqued them down, installed the meter and called them back. 15 minutes later they popped it back on and "Bobs your Uncle" I had power. That way I could move all around in there, and push wires from inside the building blindly, without worrying about them going up into the hot legs from the pole and lighting me up at 75 THOUSAND volts. Danny