Sorry to hear about the murmur thing
My last Dr visit they said they thought I might be getting one too.
Balderdash!
When I built my shop one of my former Linemen, who had taken a buyout, years earlier, had shut down his Electricians Business and was needing a place to store all his inventory for free.
Sooooo, being the good friend I was, I offered the *just installed" shell of my new shop to him if I could use some of his inventory to wire my shop with.
He agreed! He had a LOT of inventory! And I mean a lot! So, him not having to pay for a warehouse for it, while he shut down the business saved him some cash. And me too!
I'll tell you how I wired my shop to give you some ideas you might want to use on yours.
The ONLY thing I had to purchase was the 200 amp breaker box, the metal outlet boxes, the outlets and light fixtures.
And he let me use his scaffolding, man lift and conduit benders.
He has one of those zig zag benders that put a slight left/ right bends in 1/2 inch conduits so the conduit can be strapped to the wall and zig zagged out a 1/2 inch to mate with the outlet boxes. I wore that thing out, since the conduit and wire were free..........
I have an over build electrical system, all in bent conduit that would make NASA proud.
I put in outlets every 5 feet all the way around the perimeter walls, sans the wall the motor home parks against. It only has 4 outlet boxes. The rest have 10 or 12 each. Oh, the shop is 3000 Sq ft.
Everything is in conduit and every ground floor outlet box is wired for 240 volts. So every other 120 volt outlet is on the same 120 V breaker. And there are a few added boxes tapped off them that have 240 outlets for running welders or plasma cutters. I can add a 240 outlet anywhere just by tapping into an existing box. (Other than the overhead lighting circuits, of course.) I even wired for 2 commercial jackshaft garage door openers in the ceiling for the big doors. (Step son owns a garage door business! So some day!)
(I use 2- 440lb cap electric 120 V winches for garage door openers now.) They work good for this as I often raise the doors only as tall as I need to get what ever stuff I need inside. So I hold the button until I think stuff will clear. There are paint markers to show me where I need to stop for tall stuff 8 bring in a lot.
Most of the circuits are wired 10 gauge, with some dedicated outlets for the compressor and RV wired in 8 or 6 gauge copper.
I did have to buy the lighting fixtures and so i put in 16 - T8 4 foot fixtures. All are wired to switches by the personal entry door. Even the 2 ceiling fans and air compressor relay switches are mounted by that door. This way I can kill all lighting, the compressor ( 80 gallon 3 cylinder PUMA industrial grade ) plus ceiling fans. The only three light I don't have control over at the door are the two over the work benches, one in the upstairs storage loft and the bathroom. The upstairs switch is at the bottom of the stairs going up to it and is only 6 feet from the personal door.
Almost forgot the shop stereo. (200 watts per channel) It's by the entry door as is my phone charger and holder and reel to reel tape deck!
I can shut the entire shop down as I leave through that door as long as I've already turned off the work bench lights.
And my cell phone plays music through the stereo so I can hear it when it rings. Music stops playing when the phone rings, no matter how noisy I am. A bluetooth in my ear and I'm golden.
And we won't even talk about the pneumatic system I installed.
It's a real man cave. 2 car lifts and 2 motorcycle lifts, plus overhead roller winch on an "I" beam inside.
Engines, rearends and transmissions are stored upstairs.
Come see it if you want to. I'm not that far from you. And yes, I have been blessed more than I deserve.
Whoa, didn't realize I REALLY hijacked your thread! My apologies. Anyway, swing down and I'll show to you then treat you to lunch.