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Our winter electric rate is quite reasonable since we're on a heat pump (all-electric) rate. (The house has geothermal.) Located in Nebraska. It gets cold for sure but it's not insanely cold like those farther north of us. The bathroom is very well insulated and has a small baseboard heater &...

The walls are 2x6 plus 1/2" OSB on each side. I'll look more closely at Window A/C's to see if they might work. What about these? I've never heard of Cooper and Hunter but the size is right and the idea of less noise in the office is very appealing to me. Anyone have experience with these...

We have a 42x80x12 pole barn and inside I built a 225 sq ft office and a 40 sq ft bathroom attached to the office. I'm about to finish framing and then install insulation and such. There's already a slider window installed. My initial thought was to keep things simple (cheap!) and use electric...

3rdgen - I plan to install a metal ceiling with blown or batt insulation on top of it. Ryan - The building will not be heated 24/7, but it would be nice to be able to go out there on a cold day and use a torpedo heater to take the edge off. As it is now, any heat I put in is instantly lost.

I looked at another pole barn similar to mine. The builder installed faced fiberglass between the posts, covered the whole wall with plastic, girts on the inside then put the metal walls over that. Nothing else for ventilation into the attic. I wondered if there could be enough air leaking in...

I am planning to insulate my pole barn. I want to install metal liner panels on the ceiling with insulation (blown or batt) on top, and then use rigid foam on the walls. Spray foam is out of budget - it costs too much. The building has no soffits but it does have a continuous ridge vent. How do...

I originally wasn't going to put the bathroom out there by my son persuaded me that since the water line is right next to the building, it would be great to have the bathroom. The more I think about it, the more I agree with him. It would be great to have a place to wash hands and such without...

We are finally putting a concrete floor in the pole barn and I want to put a bathroom out there. Now is the time to set the sewer and supply pipes, before the concrete is down. The problem is that I'm getting conflicting advice on whether the bathroom slab needs to have footings under it...

So just a couple inches of foam board insulation will keep the base material from freezing, even if the area is unheated often? That sounds great to me. I was trying to figure out how this could work since cold would be trying to get in from above the concrete and then I realized that the earth...

I follow the logic of what you're saying but I don't understand -- when someone has a slab in their building or garage and then later decides to go back and build interior walls on top of that slab, there are no footings. How can you get away with that without creating huge interior problems as...

This spring we're going to place concrete in 1/3 of our 42x80 pole barn for an office, shop and loft area. I had some plans drawn up by the architect that did our house. He suggested footings down at the frost line (42") and then placing the slab on stem walls which are resting on the footings...

I too am concerned about storing hay in there but for right now, there's no other option. Part of the motivation for doing this project is to build the interior walls to separate the hay from the rest of the area especially the shop area. Any more feedback about the floorplan itself?

About ten large round bales per year. Buffaloguy: My original plan was to simply drive cars around to the west side when they needed to get in the shop, but reality is that there's a steep dropoff on the north side. Between the dropoff, mud when it rains and deep snow that accumulates there...

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Help! I'm paralyzed by indecision. We have a 42x80x12 pole barn that's used as a garage, workshop, and for storing hay. Right now there are no interior walls and just a dirt floor. I'm just about to start building walls and placing concrete. When we put the building up a few years ago I...

I stored mine outside for a year after we built our house, before I had a garage. It was tough to keep the tarp on it in the Nebraska wind and snow, and mice nested under the deck. The mower had a rough time outside compared to being in the garage. I wouldn't do it again if I could avoid it.

I'm only going to heat the bathroom and not the entire shop. Because the bathroom is so small (say 5ft x 6ft) and will be surrounded by freezing temps and frozen ground, I'm worried that the ground under it might freeze especially right under the bathroom wall which is where the water pipe will...

Yeah, no way I'm spending $300 just to have water in the winter. I thought of putting a yard hydrant in the bathroom. A little tacky but I guess it would work. I also thought about sleeving the 1/2" supply line in a 4" PVC and then putting heat tape on the 1/2" line, but I don't think it's...

I have a 42x80ft pole barn that we use for a garage. A smaller part of the building is going to be the shop, and the bathroom will be off the shop. I plan to heat the bathroom in winter to keep the pipes from freezing. The water supply line is below frost line (42") now, but if I bring it up...

I just ran water and sewer under two sections of our L-shaped sidewalk between house and garage. The sidewalk was concrete, not asphalt. Frost line here is 42" so the trench is relatively deep. I could not have easily shoved a pipe from that deep down. We just broke out the sidewalk, trenched...