New shed

[Mortblanc]

Going solar on the man cave??

Not hardly!

This is a workshop building and solar would not provide more than a few LED lights and irritation.

This shed will have machine tools pulling big power, overhead lighting, heat and AC. I have run one 50 amp circuit to it and I am thinking about another. I am not about to saddle myself with restricted wattage or planning around a inadequate supply. It things go TU I will fire up the generator and keep going.

I am not into the global warming syndrome and all its faulty logic and in my remaining years I do not intend to leave a carbon footprint, I am leaving a carbon highway! Sometimes I even leave the room and fail to turn out the lights!

SS the sheds vary greatly in quality and much depends on how they are assembled. I have done several over the years and I find that much of the stability is in the attachment of the frame of the building to the foundation. Until they are attached securely they feel very much like a beer can with a big door. After tying to the floor they become a bit more solid.

Their real convenience to me is that if you need a building quick you can put one up in a single day with help and in two or three days alone. I was working alone and even with my restrictions due to back surgeries I had it finished win three days.

First day frame, second day walls, third day roof/doors.

It was a whole building in a carton and no single piece weighed more than 5 pounds. The store loaded the carton on my trailer and I removed the pieces as I was able. The most difficult part for my old bones was the climbing onto and off of the foundation platform that was chest high on one corner and required a ladder for access.