Author Topic: Help build the my room  (Read 6587 times)

Offline ctom

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Re: Help build the my room
« Reply #15 on: 05/29/14 20:21 UTC »
" TPO and I have been talking about moving in the next year or so to a lakeside smaller home.  The lake, by the way, is filled with giant bass."

A Minnesota lake, Denny? We have lots of lakes with giant bass....ask Andy he'll tell ya. And as you know its only cool a couple days in January so the weather adjustment wouldn't be a problem. They sell ventilation hoods here too.
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Offline gmintimidator

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Re: Help build the my room
« Reply #16 on: 05/30/14 16:32 UTC »
The wife and I are about half way done building our dream house ( we have small dreams lol ) and now it's time to design the pouring room!!!!!! It's about 10 by 40 in the basement. I told the electrician do wire it so I can run compressor, microwave and toaster oven all at the same time. It had plugs every 4 feet. The only thing this room is for is pouring, airbrushing, fishing stuff and fish/deer processing  :P  I have it plumbed for a nice big sink.
  Any ideas are welcome. So if you could do it all over again how would you Do-It

Dedicated 15/20A receptacles would be the way to go.  Depending on proximity to sink, GFI breaker or outlets would be required.  As others have said, venting, lighting and lots of bench space.  There never seems to be enough bench space.  Pick your equipment locations and install your dedicated receptacles and then install a bunch of others on a couple of common circuits for anything else you add.  Storage is key too, properly organizing your stuff so it's easy to find, get to and hopefully put back.  With the lighting, you can do what I call poor man dimming for finer detail tasks.  Get a fixture with multiple ballasts and 3 or 4 tubes.  1 switch controls 2 lamps.  The other would control the other lamp/lamps.  In a 3 lamp form, you get 33/66 and 100 lighting levels depending on which switches you have on.  This way you only pay for the extra light level when you want it.  LED pot lights offer free dimming and I've been pretty happy with the CREE ones I got from Home Depot.

I've been using a bench I made from melamine wood.  It was cheap and the plastic doesn't seem to adhere to it.  It makes cleaning it up easy.  Formica would be the way to go if budget allows as mentioned by another member.

Offline tom1441

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Re: Help build the my room
« Reply #17 on: 07/18/14 09:16 UTC »
Is the room getting close to being done