spitfire557
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30 x 50 Pole Barn in Pennsylvania BUILD PICTURES
Hello all! Excited to share some photos of my new garage, which has been a long time coming.
We purchased our home about a year ago, and it came with a run down detached single car garage. Needless to say, I immediately began conjuring up some plans to have it torn down and replaced with a larger garage.
After lots of research (thanks GJ), I decided on a 30 x 50 x 12 standard pole barn. I started calling around and was disappointed in the extensive wait time most pole barn builders offered. So instead, I had a stick built garage priced out by a local builder. After seeing the quote, I quickly resorted back to the pole barn.
In April of this year, I signed with a local Amish builder and was pretty content with their customer service. I immediately hired an excavation company to come in and demo the old garage, and prep a 40 x 60 pad.
Old garage:
Come May, and the excavator went to work and in no time had the old garage gone and the new pad in place.
I don't have any good photos of the pad, but he ended up bringing 7 truck loads of shale in to make it level. I was very pleased with his work.
This photo was taken before it was finished, but you get the point.
And completely finished, ignore the temporary t-post fencing.
Fast forward to last Monday, and the builder finally got started on the building. Day one and they had most of the posts in the ground.
Day two, and the trusses were up. These guys work quick.
Day three, and the roof and purlins are on.
Day four, and metal siding is started. We ended up going with a clay colored siding, and bronze roof/trim/wainscoting. They also installed the windows and man door this day.
Last Friday rained, so they took the day off. This gave me time to trench some 3" conduit under the building in anticipation of electric from the house. I also pounded in a grounding rod and ran some 4 AWG bare wire from it to the future sub panel's location.
On Monday (Day five of work) they wrapped up the siding and also spread some stone inside.
First thing on the morning of day 6 and they poured concrete. This is my first moment of hesitation, as I did not see them lay out any wire mesh/re-bar reinforcements prior to pouring concrete. I wasn't home when they actually poured it, but the timing just doesn't seem possible for them to lay out wire mesh. I have very minimal knowledge of concrete and assumed wire mesh reinforcement was the 'norm,' hence why I never asked the builder about it. Either way, they did use a 3500 PSI concrete with fiber mixed in, so time will tell how it holds up. Too late to worry about it now.
This is how she sits now, they came back today (day 7) and cut control joints and sprayed a sealer on the concrete. They also wrapped up the fascia and miscellaneous trim work.
Conduit/ground for future sub panel:
All that is left to do is garage doors (we went with carriage style doors, 10x8 in size) and gutters/spouting. Both of those tasks are subbed out so I'm not sure when they'll get done.
OVERALL - so far so good, I'm quite pleased with their progress and quality of work. I have lots to learn with this barn. I plan on doing some minimal insulation (tips/tricks/recommendations?), and would like to sheet the interior walls and ceiling, most likely with metal as well.
Eventually electric will be ran, and I'll do surface mounted conduit to all of the outlets. I also plan on doing a small wood stove at the one end (near where the future work bench will be), so I'll have to figure out the best chimney setup for these types of buildings.
I'll take some better photos once it is completely finished and I get some things around the exterior cleaned up. I plan on renting a machine and doing some final grade work around the building.
Hope you enjoy, and bare with me as I'll have plenty of questions in these next few months!
Hello all! Excited to share some photos of my new garage, which has been a long time coming.
We purchased our home about a year ago, and it came with a run down detached single car garage. Needless to say, I immediately began conjuring up some plans to have it torn down and replaced with a larger garage.
After lots of research (thanks GJ), I decided on a 30 x 50 x 12 standard pole barn. I started calling around and was disappointed in the extensive wait time most pole barn builders offered. So instead, I had a stick built garage priced out by a local builder. After seeing the quote, I quickly resorted back to the pole barn.
In April of this year, I signed with a local Amish builder and was pretty content with their customer service. I immediately hired an excavation company to come in and demo the old garage, and prep a 40 x 60 pad.
Old garage:
Come May, and the excavator went to work and in no time had the old garage gone and the new pad in place.
I don't have any good photos of the pad, but he ended up bringing 7 truck loads of shale in to make it level. I was very pleased with his work.
This photo was taken before it was finished, but you get the point.
And completely finished, ignore the temporary t-post fencing.
Fast forward to last Monday, and the builder finally got started on the building. Day one and they had most of the posts in the ground.
Day two, and the trusses were up. These guys work quick.
Day three, and the roof and purlins are on.
Day four, and metal siding is started. We ended up going with a clay colored siding, and bronze roof/trim/wainscoting. They also installed the windows and man door this day.
Last Friday rained, so they took the day off. This gave me time to trench some 3" conduit under the building in anticipation of electric from the house. I also pounded in a grounding rod and ran some 4 AWG bare wire from it to the future sub panel's location.
On Monday (Day five of work) they wrapped up the siding and also spread some stone inside.
First thing on the morning of day 6 and they poured concrete. This is my first moment of hesitation, as I did not see them lay out any wire mesh/re-bar reinforcements prior to pouring concrete. I wasn't home when they actually poured it, but the timing just doesn't seem possible for them to lay out wire mesh. I have very minimal knowledge of concrete and assumed wire mesh reinforcement was the 'norm,' hence why I never asked the builder about it. Either way, they did use a 3500 PSI concrete with fiber mixed in, so time will tell how it holds up. Too late to worry about it now.
This is how she sits now, they came back today (day 7) and cut control joints and sprayed a sealer on the concrete. They also wrapped up the fascia and miscellaneous trim work.
Conduit/ground for future sub panel:
All that is left to do is garage doors (we went with carriage style doors, 10x8 in size) and gutters/spouting. Both of those tasks are subbed out so I'm not sure when they'll get done.
OVERALL - so far so good, I'm quite pleased with their progress and quality of work. I have lots to learn with this barn. I plan on doing some minimal insulation (tips/tricks/recommendations?), and would like to sheet the interior walls and ceiling, most likely with metal as well.
Eventually electric will be ran, and I'll do surface mounted conduit to all of the outlets. I also plan on doing a small wood stove at the one end (near where the future work bench will be), so I'll have to figure out the best chimney setup for these types of buildings.
I'll take some better photos once it is completely finished and I get some things around the exterior cleaned up. I plan on renting a machine and doing some final grade work around the building.
Hope you enjoy, and bare with me as I'll have plenty of questions in these next few months!
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