Well my garage rewiring task is completed. This was a critical pre-requisite to insulating and finishing my garage. I had the following requirements for Garage 2.0:
\n– An external permanently mounted photocell for 110V
\n– A set of outlets inside and outside that had always-on and switched on at night plug. This would be used for Holiday lighting and landscape lighting.
\n– A night light in the garage controlled by the outside photocell.
\n– Switch my carriage lights to being controlled by the master photocell rather than a switch so the carriage lights come on with the landscape lights and holiday lights.
\n– Add a switched flood light on the eves covering the front yard and driveway
\n– Move me landscape light transformer into the garage – again controlled by the master photocell.
\nOverall, the ideal also was to put in enough boxes that someone could re-configure which lights did which for a new owner of the house. For example, if they wanted the carriage lights to be switched again – it should be possible – if they want to switch the flood to be motion sensitive – it should be possible.
\nSo there were extra runs of 14-3 and extra junction boxes to allow for re-configuration of where the hot, switched hot, and photocell hot were made available for easy reconfiguration.
\nIt all went well. I am happy how it turned out. It took longer than I thought because my wiring design skills were a bit rusty. I made 9 trips to Menards and took back as much stuff as I bought. I found that I had to design iteratively – one wire run\/junction box at a time.
\nBut it worked out well.
\nNext steps are to insulate and drywall the garage – that will be a multi-person job and I will probably enlist my brother Scott in the effort.
\nAfter that it is on to Basement 2.0 – that will entail plumbing electricity, walls, – a bathroom, the whole shebang. But it will be fun and the last major fixup of the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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