Shop Barn is getting siding!

[STINEY]

Been a real busy week.......and lots happening.

Its amazing how many little things need addressing in a project like this, lots of tiny fires to put out.

Front before. New gutters/downspouts were done a couple of weeks before.



Front with roof painted.



Front view with one side done.



Overhead doors coming real soon......Bye-bye craptastic sliders!

[STINEY]

A view from the other end.

Before. (again, after gutters/downspouts)



Roof painted. (this paint is more like bedliner, its 1/8" or more thick! Awesome stuff.)

The old boarded-over door is also being blocked up here. Making the foundation all one heigth, I don't need or want that door. The blocks are filled, and prior to that, bar was drilled into the concrete threshold. Its essentially a solid foundation wall now.







And Presto! Siding! This all happened in about 6 hours.....one of the crews work requirements is a case of Mt Dew per day. Must be rocket fuel in those pop cans?




Pretty darn straight for 2 old barns bumped together 120 years ago, eh?

[Monk]

Nice!!
End results are dramatic.

I envy you.

[STINEY]

End wall of the "Straw-shed" part of the barn. This end had lots of openings to allow for filling all the way to the top with straw or hay.



Inside of same wall. That weird large truss thing will soon be history too, it was apparently built to allow the ground level to be free-spanned, but was causing the wall to bow out from the load. Bad design, but interesting idea. We added posts back in at ground level after jacking the beams up 4". The weird truss thing will be removed when I get around to it - maybe a basketball court in the near future?



You can see one of the new posts in this picture, and some of the cabling I added to pull the wall back in with come-alongs. Worked well as a temporary fix, moved the wall back in over 6" that way. It had moved enough to start dropping floor joists, that's when I noticed the problem!



Lots better! This is as of last evening.



Three openings are all framed up for overhead doors as well.

[BBR]

Looking sharp!!

[SuperBuickGuy]

looks excellent!

[Deaf Bob]

Next is heat and AC!
Then be no reason for the house...

[STINEY]

Heat - yeah baby yeah!

Just blocking the wind by covering all the gaps should make a HUGE difference......

[Deaf Bob]

Heat - yeah baby yeah!

Just blocking the wind by covering all the gaps should make a HUGE difference......

No doubt!

[Barry Donovan]

great work, it is not luck to have a straight barn.

20/20 was a builder with sensitive feet.

Local, that kinda thing happens a lot. the shape and shear size of the barns, stuffed with stall sized addons..gutted slowly with steel beams allowing more open space.
from outside, just an old barn.

Big old lumber is a help. They got up close to every piece by eye a hundred years ago.

[Beagle]

so over the winter you got an unlimited supply of Mountain Dew (rocket fuel) and a water cooled checkbook? Looks great man, I'm jealous.

[STINEY]

Checkbook is overheating at this point for sure.....and it ain't doing the Dew that's doing the heatup. Been selling the best of the best and the oldest of the old from the VW parts stash I've been accumulating since 1986. I like turning old cars and parts into structures, it helps me rationalize dragging home more junk, er, treasures that is.

Just got in from grinding down those 3 concrete bumps on the floor so the overhead doors can be installed. That weird storm front hit just as I was 1/2 way through the last one, got some hail and rain soaked everything within 20' of the opening (which now has basically no door on it, just the old sliders leaning against the hole).

And our rain and wind is ALWAYS from the west, right? Not tonight. Got the west ones done first, just to beat the storm. Guess mother nature didn't like being outguessed this time.

But have 3 more walls sided today, and a new slider door completely done for the lower storage area of the hay shed. Looks great, but no pictures in the dark. Tomorrow maybe. Have to return that grinder too. Busy morning planned!

[Dan Barlow]

Looking fantastic.

[STINEY]

Completely finished with this side. Forgot to get a picture of the end wall of the hayshed, rats.
Need to pressure wash the foundation now too, it really looks cruddy now that the barn looks so nice.



Lots of progress here. Nice new slider that comes as close to sealing as a slider can.......only gap is at the bottom where the gravel is.



Even has a "rubrail" so it does not ding the siding up when opening it. (That's the white horizontal piece)


Inside of door. Someday when/if I pour concrete back here I can bring it right up to the new door and darn near have a weather-tight seal.




This is where the dericho wind rain and hail pelted me last night while grinding the concrete. Good thing they stuck up sections of the old doors, they stopped some of it anyways.



Lots of progress on the front as well. These guys flat-out hustle!





Link to the concrete bump grinding and how it turned out - http://www.bangshift.com/forum/showt...-chisel-or-cut

[milner351]

FANTASTIC!

have you priced spray foam insulation lately? SHUDDER!