Recent content by Cbrauer

Thanks - when you suggest 2x8's are you meaning just for the joists?

Hello! First shop build and my brain hurts from learning so much, but here we go - We have a 40x40' pole barn on a 4" concrete slab, 6x6 posts every 10' on exterior walls, 14' eave height. I'm planning to build an enclosed / insulated / temp controlled work room along one of the exterior...

Will definitely be installing vapor barrier on the interior side of the insulation prior to walls. Damp is a real problem here, we live in rain and fog soup for the better part of the year, but the summers are nice and dry. We'll have a mini-split with cooling capabilities, but 90% of the time...

Our post frame building has been built, and in 50/50 hindsight, I realized I wish I had asked the contractors to install house wrap. We live in Oregon in a wind corridor (our wind even has its own name), and it seems like wrap would help limit air infiltration. We plan on insulating and putting...

Not familiar with zip panels but it's normal plywood, the stamp just said "mill cert"

We recently had a pole barn built and one 40' side is a plywood shear wall with ribbed metal siding applied directly over it. A friend came by the other day and asked if they put a vapor barrier between the metal and plywood, and since I wasn't home when it went up I didn't know. He half...

Bucko, the inspector had bigger structural details to fail the building on and probably didn't even notice the windows. After the second inspection failure, I had to sit down with the inspector and draw diagrams for the contractor to follow because he literally couldn't understand the plans. We...

Yeah, I'm done with this contractor. Now after watching some videos on framing a window I am not impressed with the interior either. I found a pic I took of a window before siding went on. Can see there is no flashing. Did he ever even nail in the bottom? No idea. The window sticks out pretty...

I have a newly constructed pole barn that we paid a contractor to build for us. Unfortunately, every window and weather-facing door is leaking. First it was only one window, and we called the contractor to fix it. He messed with it a bit, but there were no visible changes and told me that it is...