[s-cars] NAC - Dream Garage Ceiling and Wall materialrecommendation

[Taka Mizutani]

Lee- that might barely be enough, seriously, if you're talking about real light.

I have a twin 4' fixture basically right above the hood of each car in
the 2 car garage, another fixture right above the utility sink, the
plain old stupid 60W lightbulb in the center of the garage and the
twin bulbs in the garage door opener. With all of these lights lit,
it's not enough to comfortably work on a car at night or with the door
closed.

Ideally, I'd want two more 4' twin bulb fixtures for above each car as
well as some way to illuminate at foot level- lighting sunk into the
concrete would be ideal for this, don't know how to accomplish that. I
think with some work lights and my 4-tube drop light, that might
suffice for the lack of in-floor lighting.

So what I'm trying to say is that having about 10 fluorescent 4' long
tubes is barely enough for a two car garage.

If I were to do it again, rather than having fixtures that run across
the width of the garage, I'd have duplexed twin-tube industrial
fixtures that run lengthwise front to back in the garage ceiling
(total 8ft. length of fixture), two just off from the walls and two
spaced equally in the remaining width of the garage. That would give
awesome coverage from above and hopefully give enough wall reflection
off of the white-painted drywall so that you wouldn't need a ton of
lighting down low.

This might happen anyway, because the garage is not wired with enough
electrical capacity as it stands- if I want to run an air compressor
and some other stuff, I'll want to add at least 3 30amp circuits and
rewire the existing outlets to use the additional circuits.

Taka


On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:42:14 -0500, Lee Levitt <lee at wheelman.com> wrote:

> Funny we're talking about garages...I had an electrician in yesterday to
> scope out, among other things, sufficient light for the garage.
> 
> Mine's a two car attached and right now it has 1 decent sized fluorescent
> fixture. I'm replacing it with two 4' twin bulb fixtures near the front of
> the garage, another in the middle of the garage and 1 more toward the back
> over my workbench.