RW> I'm with ROy here.  The way you like to tackle your own   
   RW> maintenance chores and the like, you won't regret that 220   
   RW> line.  IT's not hard to do.  YOu can do the work yourself   
   RW> and if not comfortable have the electrician tie it in at the panel, but   
   RW> I'd   
   RW> bite the bullet and do it.  I kept   
   RW> threatening to run a 220vac line out here to the end of this place, for   
      
   I thought of just about everything before we had the basement finished -   
   except for the 220 run to the garage.    
      
   I ran surround sound speaker wire for the home theater, CAT5e network drops   
   all over the house (around 60 total network drops in the house), coax all over   
   the place, plenty of power - but forgot about the garage..   
      
   Now that the basement is finished, it would be next to impossible to run it,   
   without going outside in a trench around the entire house.     
      
   The only other possibility would be if there was some way I could upgrade my   
   220 in the laundry room and use that for both the dryer and the air   
   compressor.  Switching the dryer to natural gas would work too, but that is   
   taking it a bit far since I would need to run a gas line and buy a new dryer.    
   :)   
      
   - Mark   
      
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