We had beautiful weather this weekend for outside work. I got the back yard mowed and started picking up rocks and concrete that was around the shop. Waited on my son's buddy to come over with a trencher. He finally showed up at about 4;30 pm after I was told in would be 9am when they should have come over.
Well, and hour later I had my trench dug from my main panel to the shop and was ready to drop in the conduit. My oldest son helped get the conduit glued up and connected on each end. Got to be dinner time so we stopped for the day on Saturday. Sunday was another good day to be outside. I did not have much help after church and lunch since most of my family was at a gymnastics competition in Frisco for my daughter. I stayed at home with my youngest boy who is in a cast from his toes to his hip and did not want to travel that far...We went to the store and got stuff for his science project and then I got to work on wiring up the shop. I was able to get all the plugs for the 110v outlets and the ones for the compressor and the welder all installed and wired up. I got the main power feed from the house panel to the sub-panel in the shop wired up too. We are good to start moving in!
I am not an electrician, but I think it looks good for what I was able to do by myself. I did not take pictures of the trench and conduit since that is pretty common stuff. I will lay in a coax line for cable TV to the shop before covering up the conduit in the trench.
Sub-panel before I started:
Sub-panel when I finished (minus the cover):
South wall outlets:
Two of them hidden behind the radio...
and Welder Outlet and two more 110 outlets:
West wall outlets:
Also found a good place to mount my battery charger for my Ryobi tools!
Orange line is the wiring for the compressor outlet on the outside of the west wall.
My large workbench will go on the West wall centered on the post that has the charger mounted on it. The welding table will go in the southwest corner. On the east wall I have some 30" deep, 8' wide, 12' tall pallet racks going up for storage.
That's it for the this past weekend...
