Can you see what your doing

I guess the first thing I wanted to start with is lighting.  Most people will agree you just can't have enough.  Here I share some of my experience with doing an upgrade to the typical "builder installed" garage lighting.

This is typically the type of thing you will be starting with.

This is a 3 car garage with some outdoor lighting each with 2, 100 watt bulbs located directly over the car bays.  Bad on multiple counts,  incandescent lights, poor placement, and just inadequate.

While you could toss all kinds of money at this job, my intention was to get good bang for the buck, so I wanted to solve the most problems for the least cost and the easiest install.

Easiest would be just to toss 3 replacement fixtures into these existing spots but that doesn't help with the placement.  If you are working on the cars you'll need light from multiple position to fill in shadows.  So just 3 larger, brighter was not the idea.



So I decide to go with 6, 2x32 watt fixture, using 2 per bay. These were purchase for a local home center, at $19.99 each they are cheap enough.  The 4x32 fixture were almost triple in cost so I decide to go with 2x32 to save money and spread the lighting.  So the lights and bulbs come to about $135.

Next we get into the layout and install.  Of course nothing goes as planned!