Hi All!
We live on a remote homestead in the forest of Northern Minnesota. This Fall we started building a workshop which will also serve as an office/lab and studio for my business. I had planned to wire it myself, but have been too busy with work so I had a local company rough it in.
I have spray foam insulation scheduled for end of Jan so I want to make sure I've done my best to accommodate future flexibility. Just to clarify, I am starting from scratch with shop tools so I am building for the future rather than for things we actually own.
This is a 100A 30-breaker panel run from a farm pole which has 200A service. They ran 2-2-2-4 so due to the limitations of the wire it's on a 90A breaker. Our property was originally off-grid and I am going to be augmenting with solar over time.
I have more questions for you experts than I have space here, but here's a start:
* you will see I added 2 220's (one 30A the other 20A) in work zone 2 for tools and one in the mechanical room for a compressor (30A). They put the table saw outlet (30A) low on the wall but all others at bench height.
- Should I add some 110V outlets low, or do you think I will be OK with them all at bench height?
- Should I add another 220V in work zone 1?
- Where do you see a dust collector being mounted, even a make-shift one? Should I run a 220V up high for that somewhere?
* There is a lean-to on one side for a camper so I had them run an exterior outlet for the camper. It's just a 110V/20A outlet - do you think I should run 10ga to this so it can be a 30A plug for the camper?
Any other comments on this layout, things you would do before this is buttoned up? I am planning on drywall on the ground floor with French cleat along the walls of work zones 1 and 2, then getting wood from the local sawmill for the attic/studio floor, walls, and ceiling.
I realize I can't possibly know what all I will need to power in the future, so I am thinking of just having some conduit run from the panel out to the wall with a cap on it, so I can run surface mount conduit for any future things, like additional outlets on the ceiling or whatever. There is also 3/4" PVC running up into the attic above the panel.
Some specs:
* 30'x40' slab with a 12'x40' lean-to.
* 10' 2x6 walls
* Radiant heat in an insulated slab with a thermal break between the garage and hall/bathroom zones
* Navien combi boiler for in-floor heat, radiators upstairs, and hot water for the bathroom and an upstairs coffee station
* 18x8' insulated overhead door
* Windows from Thermo-tech and fiberglass entry doors from BayerBuilt (I try to buy local whenever I can)
Here is the overall plan, footprint being 30'x40':
Drummond Shop Ground Floor.jpg
This shows "work zone 1":
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This shows "work zone 2":
workzone2.jpg
here is the exterior (historic cabin in background I hope to restore):
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