I do things a little different from most folks most times. One of those things is the way I build an out building.
This particular project is a twenty four by twenty four foot horse barn whatever.
The principles are the same whether the building is a garage, a barn, a shed, whatever.
Here's a shot of the ground before we start.
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And this is the way it looked at the end of the day. Eleven posts concreted in with five thousand psi concrete one foot by four foot deep holes.
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We didn't get back to this job until after lunch so it was a short day.
Here's all we got done.
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Connection at an opening.
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There will be three purlins for each wall. They not only are welded into place but every piece is cut with a hole saw and each joint is overlapped.
This is labor intensive I agree. It might even be considered overkill. Something I'm often accused of doing.
But think about it.
With this system the skill of the weldor isn't as important as the accuracy of the cutting in the holes.
The other thing is the purlins are laid horizontally for a very good reason. Interior finish out. Most metal buildings either have a blown in insulation or a stick built interior wall system to use conventional readily available insulation.
With my system the outer skin is attached with conventional self tapping screws. Then standard insulation can be placed in between the purlins. And the interior walls can be attached with self tapping screws.
So it's a little more labor intensive framing up the metal part. But when it comes to finish out it saves effort and materials.
Tomorrow we should have it framed up including the trusses and rafters. I think you'll like it.
I believe that's why I was the parallelogram in the square world of telco. I really didn't fit.
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We didn't get as much done today as I wanted. But then, that's life in the city when you're so close to the country.
We got the rest of the side wall framing complete. The open area was a challenge. The roof is cantilevered out three feet and there's a twenty four foot clear span. So that took a little southern engineering. (Southern engineering is similar to yankee ingenuity in the way a truck is similar to a car)
Here's a shot at the end of the day. You can't see it but my tail was tucked firmly between my legs.
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This is a shot of the truss system. It's up but not in place and the cross supports haven't been installed yet.
I wanted to get them up and the pipe welded into place. Locating them after that is easy. It's just a bugger bear getting them up and onto the pipe.
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This gives you an idea of what I had to do to pick up the weight of the roof. The cantilever framing was six inch purlins made into I beams with four inch purlins. And from post to post I used an eight inch purlin to carry the bulk of the load.
Right now there's four hundred feet of four inch purlin in the structure. By the time I'm done there will be an additional two hundred feet.
I know that's a lot of metal just for framing. But for the price they're paying they deserve something designed and built to last for a long time.
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Yesterday and today were real further puppies (further puppies are meaner'n murther puppies).
But we're ready for skin. That happens tomorrow.
Part of the project was to lay down a geotextile cloth that would keep the gumbo clay and the new select fill separate from now on. We were also to raise the grade so that even in the wetest of seasons the stall area would be dry.
Here's the first batch of select fill over the cloth barrier.
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We used twenty yards of select fill. It runs from six inches deep to about a foot on the low corner.
Normally they use what looks like big big staples to locate the cloth barrier. But that wouldn't be worth a flip around a horse. So we dug a six inch deep trench around the perimeter. We also nailed the cloth to the treated lumber to help hold it in place in case the horse decides to be a paw'r.
There's a difference between a paw'n horse and a pa one.
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Here's what the roofing framing ended up looking like.
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This was after the fill was leveled and compacted for what we wanted now.
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Corner detail.
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Opening detail.
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The posts are regular old galvanized schedule forty two inch (2 3/8") pipe. They're still shiney because they just got off the boat.
Overkill is my middle name.
Today we had a good day going until the heat took me out. I used to be able to take the heat and ask for more. But I was on top of the building and my son in law was handing up the twelve foot sheets. I'd get them in place and we'd both screw them down.
It was like being in a solar rotissery. The bright white reflection made me put on sun glasses which I never wear. But I couldn't see without them.
So at one thirty I called it a day. Tucked my tail firmly between my legs and headed home to cool off. Tomorrow's another day.
Here's a shot of the twelve feet sheets before cutting on the ends.
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We got really lucky with the sheets. It seems the cutoffs worked on the opposite corner side without additional trimming.
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I've been sun sick so many times in my life. In my youth I'd reach down and grab a lower gear and keep on moving. But in the last couple of years the lower gears haven't been there.
Here's where we stopped.
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( Why is water pipe sold in twenty- one foot lengths, but steel tubing comes as twenty?)
Materials for two completely different industries would be my best guess. Plumbers need a little more fudge room than welders?
Here's why I like my way to build a metal building. Attaching wood to the inside is a snap. These are 4 by 8 sheets of three quarter inch plywood. I was able to install them by myself using self tapping screws.
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If a window needed to be cut in or vertical framing for whatever was called for it's still a snap. Two by threes like they use for cheap wood fence rails fit between the flanges inside the purlin. This allows toe nailing if required.
This is for horses so a wood barrier is all that's required.
In about a week the trim will be in and I'll post the last of the pictures.
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Here's some pictures of the finished project. I took them awhile back but haven't had the time nor inclination to update the thread.
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Another view.
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And another.
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