[encantotom]

Progress on the shop has been at a standstill. first waiting for trusses, then a week of torrential rains. thought the framers would be back today, but have not seen them yet.

hopefully the trusses are done and waiting.

tom

[Ozarkguy]

Tom ...They may have re-purposed them to the ARK......

[encantotom]

talked to the builder and he said they are waiting for the trusses.

tom

[Ozarkguy]

Yep out of Gopher-wood... I remember the first year in my new house it rained like that... Identified all the areas I needed Dry Rivers and French Drains... You should have clear sailing after this Tom... and it will be cool enough to work in your new diggs!

[HoosierDaddy]

Interesting...We get the trusses first and make sure they and the footer dimensions agree.

[encantotom]

since my trusses are so large, he wanted to pour the concrete, then measure off of that and that is what they did.

got me is the real answer

tom

[Fasteddie]

if you are going to put overhead lighting in make sure the lighting is not directly over the center of the MH but down each side of the coach, so you will have good lighting on both side and top of the coach. Looks great and know you will enjoy it.

[encantotom]

the lighting is designed and laid out to have rows of lights on each side of the coach and the same if there was a coach in the second bay. and one light over the end where the engine bay is.

then over the area where the lift would be. in addition, there are 4 high cfm ceiling fans that are not in the way of the lights.

i had a lighting engineer do the foot candle calcs. it is at 105 foot candles at 3 foot heigh. which they consider working height. that is about just over 1000 lumens.

you can see from the link below that it is right in the range of what a walmart supercenter would be at.

http://relightdepot.com/news/lighting-10...do-i-need/

i am putting in what i think to be a ton of lights. gonna really run the power bill up. but i am switching them on quite a few different switches so i can control what i have on at a time.

great advice though. i am open to advice on anything.

tom

[encantotom]

after a 3 week delay, the framers are going full bore again. they say they will finish the walls by tuesday and have the crane here to assemble everything on wed.

the most spectacular thing was the delivery of the trusses.

they had an extending trailer. the trusses are about 72 feet long and with the truck it was nearly 90 feet long.

he had to back through my 18' wide gate. not as easy as it sounds since the trusses hung way over the side of the trailer. he had to lift the trusses up with a strap cinch and then it was so close we had to take the metal cap off of the fencepost for him to clear.

tom

[Chester Stone]

In a work - fascinating. But how did they unload them?