My New Shop!! Yiippeee!

I have been told that GFCI breakers are easy to trip compared to normal breakers. I know that when we had a temporally pole for electricity the GFCI breaker would trip off all the time. Then we installed a regular breaker and never had problems thereafter. So I'm hesitate of using those type breakers.

Surge protector on the panel?? Huh... that's new to me. Sounds expensive. I believe I have seen those before but didn't know what it was.

No outside outlets... it was planned that way.... I don't like the way they look. There are outlets on the porch nearby which are convenient enough for me.

I could do it different ways but as the moment I am going to install GFCI in the outlets that aren't marked "refrigerator", "microwave", etc... Thats what the inspector wants to see more than anything.



The whole plan from the start was to go with a 4" pour but after I ran out of fill dirt and patience it jumped to 6" lol

I don't plan on bolting a lift to the floor if I can help it. I want one with casters.

I plan on having pull down air and power but I am undecided about where to mount the compressor, what size I need etc....???? This is a good time to bring this question up before the sheet rock is installed. I guess I need to say that I don't have a lot of air tools. I have one air ratchet and that's it. Everything else I have is electric. I have a small type compressor that works for all my needs but still want to plan ahead if I start using more air, auto painting, etc... I was thinking about getting a bigger compressor that stands up vertical than horizontal... you might have seen those like at Lowes and put it in a corner. I don't want my compressor outside on the back but that idea isn't totally out. Just don't want anyone to steal it of course. What would you guys do??



Yes is on a concrete footer. The main reason it is constructed on a footer is because I was going to have brick. The brick needed something to sit on. Now you are correct on the turndown slab but it can also be formed to accept brick but is a difficult and time consuming adventure. We did one on front of a metal building in which the front was going to have the brick but the rest was sheet metal. So we formed it so that the concrete would roll out at the bottom of slab and have a ledge for the brick to sit on.

OK, so essentialy, having the brick or block on a seperate footer allows the floor to float from the foundation which may reduce future cracking and heaving too?