my friend redid his garage, and he bought these 8 bulb floursecent fixtures, with a white floor its really nice. he also put an air conditioner from a 4000sqft house, so he can go from 80F to 70f in about 20 minutes.

 

I like the 8'foot flourescent fixtures with the rapid starts that will fire when its cold in the shop.. A nice high ceiling with lots of lights is great, 8' foot garages are like caves to work in..

 

yeah you have different criteria.... if we could only take the heat ivan doesnt like and export it canada!

 

I have those! But I could use a few more.



Shopping for 8' fluorescent tubes takes some planning. They don't fit in the trunk.

 

any suggestions on lighting for a ceiling height thats at least eighteen feet...

currently have one 75 watt bulb on each side of the ceiling and the four flourescent underneath the deck... this is not enough..

 

If the ceiling and walls are white or light-colored, you could increase the watt-density with more fluorescents if you're looking for general illumination. If you need something more focused, you could get some commercial style HID pendant lights, kinda like this:



http://www.fclighting.com/pdf/fcp662_3.pdf

 

forget 8' home depot fixtures. For 18' ceilings you want like t5 high bay fixtures, you need to go to a proper lighting supply, they will also have the paperwork required for any rebates, doing the rebates is really simple and you can install them yourself you dont need to use a contractor.



I put up 20 new fixtures and got $75 back on each one, personal check was in my mail within 2 weeks.



I had a lighting engineer come in and evaluate it and the told me what I would need to get the light I wanted, which was 100 foot candles of lighting, which is noon sunlight or the same lighting thats in a spray booth.

 

Nice pic.. you could raise monkeys in a garage that big!

 

Now thats a kickass garage...lol... I am guessing the hole in the side of the boat is a problem?....

When you get ceilings that high, definitely use a commercial light, some of the HPS and MV's give off a weird light though and are slow to start, so a few rapid start flourescents are not a bad idea.

 

Who knows, they didnt think the hole in the Titanic was a big problem...for a while.