Recent content by 440-6 Shaker

Crossing fingers on that one... hoping to at least have wall insulation and drywall up by winter... Racing, cars, wife's projects, job... seriously cutting into my barn building time.

:3gears: Mopar or no car... I dig... :3gears:

OK so no new build progress other than a little lighting and electrical work... I've been distracted, I'm sure you guys will understand.

I'm not a huge fan of big white garage doors so here's my attempt at faux carriage house or stable swing doors...

Gable done... Finished the vertical metal today and even got the flower boxes mounted under the two upper windows. I was pretty tired of looking at that scaffold tower... as was my wife... It's only been 2 years 10 months since I broke ground... Still some work to do on the inside.

Thank you. Nothing against pole barns... I tried to make this one but with the structural and architectural elements I wanted it was easier to go with a traditional build.

Thank you... They are both a lot of fun... and a huge pain in the *** sometimes...

Yep... Still here... Still working on this thing... Getting some of the tin up on the gable, my wife is tired of all the free advertising Lowes has been getting off of the housewrap. I needed a new chicken coop so I took some time off of the barn to build this... I tried to copy some of the...

My size quote included the lean-to, sorry for the confusion. My trusses are 40' with a 10/12 roof and a 16' wide room with a 10' ceiling. I've seen clear span trusses bigger than 40. There was a guy on here a couple of years ago who had 50 or 55' trusses. They were huge, they were also heavy...

Horizontal siding done & painted... finally... Vertical metal siding will go above the horizontal siding, same color just a texture change.

Finally some progress to report... Stone done! Set, grouted, brushed ect... It's not hard just tedious... Starting to get some siding up. Wanted to do something different so I went with a 12" lap siding w/ a 10.5" reveal. The siding will be painted the same taupe color as the metal on the other...

One side of the stone finished. I can't wait to get this gable end wrapped up!

Approaching the 2 year mark from groundbreaking... and still building... and still not done... But at least everything that's been done up to this point is paid for... Getting this gable end finished and power run to it are the goals for the summer.

I used Quality Truss in Smithville, MO 31 trusses, piggy back style; 2 gable, 29 centers $8600 delivered. In my case a 40' 10/12 pitch attic truss vs' the same truss without the attic was like a couple of hundred bucks... money well spent for an additional 960 sq ft room upstairs. For me... I...

Roof is done... I'm so tired of walking around on 10/12 pitch! The last of the windows are in, just need to finish the cedar trim. Got the paper and lath stapled up. I've got a 4 day weekend coming up, hoping to get the scratch coat done and the dry stack stone on the bottom 4' and up the sides...