[milner351]

AINT LIFE GRAND INDEED

Life sure is grand when you get a bunch of folks together talking shop in cyberspace. As it's been said, you have crystallized my thoughts eloquently. In other words, you read my mind. I have a "free" furnace that I will install for this winter as money is hemorraging to other places right now and there will be no budget for an overhead radiant set up, but that is the long term goal. Can you recommend a brand or source for such heaters.
To qualify, my building (wickes) is not a steel frame, it's a wood frame with wood rafters, but steel siding and roofing. I hope to speak with the local wickes about a "qualified" contractor to replace the fiberglass panels with steel. I hear you completely on the sky lights, but in my case, I will have icynene brand foam insulation sprayed directly onto the underside of the roof, thus allowing me the open rafter areas for things like my 13ft 91/2" high 2 post lift, and a rope hoist to take the cap on and off my pick up, etc..... SO, the sky lights must go, but, I do have a line on some structural glass panels out of an office building that are very thick glass and tinted, I will frame these and use them for windows up high in the walls to let in that all important ambient light.
As far as 220v light fixtures, please name names and sources, this is no longer home depot fare and the "rest of us" don't know where to get such things.
I have underground 200amp service just installed with a new 200amp panel in the house, then a 100amp feed underground to the barn where I will soon install a square D QO 100amp sub panel with as many breakers as I can get. Fortunately the previous owner put in hard conduit with outlets at every post around the building.... I just have to figure out his "rats nest" in the old service panel before I tear it out.
Then on to finding the houses old abandoned septic tank so I can build a bathroom in the barn and not worry about the towship breathing down my neck about it.... any suggestions on doing that? Fortunately again the previous owner built a "pit" in the corner of the building where he drains some floor drains into and where he brought in the water supply from the house, I plan to use this as the place to run the line from the barn to the septic, now if I just had one of those handy little back hoes!
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Must run 5:40 am, and I've got to get to work!
Somebodies got to polish that blue oval!