12-11-2009, 09:40 PM
Yep, I'll be using #12 and 20 amp circuits on everything.
Here is another variation on the lighting taking into account some of Wayne's suggestions. On the left end, I tried placing a light fixture running "up and down" but couldn't fit it in to my satisfaction.
I could still add one more fixture running "up and down" at the end of the "peninsula".
No doubt this is a TON of light fixtures and a bunch of $$$! Is it too much light? There are thirty-one 1foot x 4 foot 2 lamp fixtures. I could spread them out more to use less fixtures, but if I am going on "can't have too much light" then maybe this is what I should do?
As for ceiling joists, the center wall is a load bearing wall. I'll use 10-foot 2x8s across from the outside walls to the center wall, through the openings between the fixtures. Then I'll box in the fixture recesses with 2x6s and finish out with 2x4s between the fixtures to give something to screw the sheetrock to.
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Here is another variation on the lighting taking into account some of Wayne's suggestions. On the left end, I tried placing a light fixture running "up and down" but couldn't fit it in to my satisfaction.
I could still add one more fixture running "up and down" at the end of the "peninsula".
No doubt this is a TON of light fixtures and a bunch of $$$! Is it too much light? There are thirty-one 1foot x 4 foot 2 lamp fixtures. I could spread them out more to use less fixtures, but if I am going on "can't have too much light" then maybe this is what I should do?
As for ceiling joists, the center wall is a load bearing wall. I'll use 10-foot 2x8s across from the outside walls to the center wall, through the openings between the fixtures. Then I'll box in the fixture recesses with 2x6s and finish out with 2x4s between the fixtures to give something to screw the sheetrock to.
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