Recent content by Jake773

I used one old one glued and screwed to the new some of the old ones were sagging when I took them out. I used clamp to take the sag out and put the sag turned up. it is hard to say what the old ones where made of. I get a little bit of deflection when I put my weight on one.

I am open to suggestions as I am thinking of putting in a 8 foot wide x 16 room above the ceiling for a play area game room for my boys. do you think the double 2x8x16 glued and screwed will be strong enough for this? I should say these are on 24inch centers as well. I just don't want a post in...

I am planning on making it heated and cooled for my sign shop ect.. I did have to get up there and seal around the cupola and have one other small leak to find. There where 6x6 post holding up the center of the hay loft that had rotted out due to it being a kennel that was washed down every day...

Been looking around here for ideas for a while now. Time to say hi. I did start a thread of my little big project. 20 x 48 pole barn.

I have been lurking here for a while getting ideas and figured I should post my current project. I have a 20 x 48 pole barn that was build way back when. It has been been home to many animals. It has a very nice concrete floor. I decided to remove the hay loft to move the ceiling up to 11ft...