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

[Lee Levitt]

I think you're right.

I'm going to talk with my electrician about twin 8' fixtures near the wall
(will illuminate whether the garage door is open or closed) and another in
the middle, either parallel to the others or perhaps perpendicular at the
front of the garage to illuminate the engine bay. Then some more 4 or 8'
fixtures by my bench.

Most of my real work is done with one car in the middle of the garage, so
having lights on each side (and one above) makes sense to me.

Lee

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taka Mizutani [mailto:t44tqtro at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:28 PM
> To: lee at wheelman.com
> Cc: Walsh, Edward; Joe Pizzimenti; s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] NAC - Dream Garage Ceiling and Wall
> materialrecommendation
> 
> 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.
>