Been a while
02/13 Progress
Well, I did not get a chance to provide an update last week, but there was progress. I got the final inspection (building) on the 31st (Wednesday) and was finally good to go from the township’s standpoint. That weekend, I did the electrical work.
My only window to dig was on Saturday (weather took a big turn for the worst, Saturday’s high was 25, but Sunday was only supposed to get to 15, and we have not been above freezing since…) so I went to the HD to rent their small trencher. They could not get the thing started, and I was worried about the irrigation pipe anyway, so I went home and started the dig by hand. It actually went well. The ground was only frozen for the first inch and a half or so, and I have sand. The only tough part was avoiding the irrigation and the many surface roots that I have. The trench was a total of about 110’, and I kept it 24” deep.
I ran a 1 ¼” conduit for the service and an extra ¾” conduit for future stuff. In the 1 ¼” is three pieces of #6 THHN cable and a #10 ground. The pull went fine, and I was live to the panel at about 1:30. I had a little help from a neighbor who is a union electrician. He helped with the conduit and the cable pull. He terminated the main panel as I did the sub panel. By the way, the sub panel is a 12 space 125 amp main lug panel.
When the panels were connected, my neighbor went home and I filled in the trench. I still have a lot of work to do on the trench, but it will have to wait until the weather improves. Once the trench was filled in, I ran one circuit with two outlets (no circuit has more than 4 outlets, and I have four circuits (so far) plus one lighting circuit (so far). It was getting late, and I owed my wife a nice night out, so I called it a day.
I did not get started until after noon on Sunday, but got the rest of the outlet circuits listed above run and the tools off of my patio and into the shop. I will try to take some pictures this weekend, but other than the lighting circuit that I did this past circuit, that is all that I have done so far.
Well, I have a lot left, and am starting to get anxious to start turning, so I may have to let some things wait a while (my budget was tightened up as well). For instance, I am thinking to hold off on insulation and wall covering (OSB) until the fall. I may start with building some rolling cabinets and wall cabinets though. The wall cabinets will be hung on those French cleats, so I will not cause too much extra work by doing them before the wall material.
Here is my latest sketch up layout. I think I like this version and everything will be on wheels except the lathe.
The cabinets along the walls will be at the same height as the table saw so that I can have a large out-feed table when needed.
I am also planning to build a cabinet around the table saw to maximize storage.