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I've been watching your install with great interest, but I guess from the title I thought you'd gone with a 24k. Didn't read carefully enough and see that you went with a 36k. We have similar buildings, but as you noted I've got about 1000 more cubic feet to condition (rough estimate). I should...

I've got a 32x48x10 pole barn that I'm mostly done framing, and ready to finish insulating, but figured I needed to plan out a mini split layout first. Location: Central Indiana. Temps range from sub-zero to triple digits. Building details: 32x48x10, but I have scissor trusses, so the peak of...

Venting is there to let heat out and keep your roof deck cool (especially critical with asphalt shingles). Letting heat out in the summer is great, but the vents don't just work in the summer. Letting heat out in the winter just costs you money and leads to discomfort. In other words, you don't...

This topic gets tricky because it's climate dependent, and there's a lot of confusion about the differences between a vapor barrier and a vapor retarder. A vapor retarder like Tyvek/Housewrap/etc is semi permeable. It will keep bulk moisture from passing through, but does allow some vapor to...

The posts about your financial situation make a good point. The posts about not having much/any time to get in the shop after kids enter the picture make a really good point. Ask me how I know... I think if you're certain you'll be moving in a couple of years then building seems kind of...

It's not that there's no value added, it's that the final result is worth less than whatever you paid to build it. And that's true whether you pay cash or finance. Financing only adds interest on top of the fact that you're already underwater on the total cost. If you build a $30k building...

The whole idea with spray foam is to completely air seal the building, so vents will negate a big advantage of the foam. As for price, something close to $1/board ft is pretty common for closed cell foam. 5.5" is a lot of thickness. Because foam air seals so well, you can often get the same...

Pole construction typically gets the building weather tight much faster, but for a fully finished/insulated/heated/cooled structure I think you end up with about the same amount of time/money involved as a conventional building. They do offer special insulation blankets that can be used with...

I'd want more support than every 5 ft or so for hanging anything that will see some weight. Framing is there for strength, wall material is there for cosmetics. You don't want to rely on your wall material to support much of anything, especially if it will be supporting heavy gym equipment or...

Re: Insulating sizzle joist ceiling You can always run some framing (even something like furring strips might work) between the trusses to act as fences and help keep the cellulose from sliding. This would also give you the option of running your steel parallel with the trusses instead of...

There are three basic approaches. 1) You can close off an uninsulated attic section and make sure that it's properly vented (soffit/ridge vents or roof vents would have to be used with a hip roof). Then you'd insulate your walls and ceiling 2) You can spray foam everything (sealing the whole...

Metal roof screws will leak, it's only a matter of time. You'll want to have a plan so that any water that does leak through doesn't ruin your OSB underlayment.

If properly installed, the plastic facing on your insulation should already be sealed and act as a vapor barrier. You don't want more than one vapor barrier. Insulation is most effective in the ceiling, so adding it there will be the most efficient use of your time/energy/money. I'd probably...

3 inches of fiberglass is around R12 at best. When it's smashed between the interior framing of your building, and the metal exterior sheeting it's going to have a lower R value. You don't need a gimmick-y radiant barrier, you need more R value.

Based on Garage Flooring's post (and similar posts in the past) and the fact that it's discontinued now, do you really want to put it down? Seems like they may have had some issues of some sort.

I checked prices at Menards because there's one local to me. Not sure if they have any on your side of the border or not. If that's not an option, then start calling lumber yards nearby. Lowe's and HD carry it usually, but I'm not sure if they do custom lengths. I've never seen anything...

In addition to being lighter weight than drywall, pre painted, and more damage resistant, liner panel metal is usually available in custom lengths which can speed up the install and reduce unsightly seams/joints. So you could likely order sheets cut to the perfect length for your angled areas...

White "liner panel" steel on the ceiling will be lighter weight than wood or sheetrock, will go up faster, will reflect more light, and is more fire proof than the others. 4 ft spans between trusses shouldn't be a big deal either. It can be ordered in custom lengths to reduce the number of seams...

Go to Menards design page and do your best to get close to the shell you're looking for: https://www.menards.com/main/e-PostFrame.html?menardsSku=1900536 That should give you an idea on materials cost for the building. Then I'd probably add about 75% of that for install labor. Then add your...

Overhead doors mean your building will never seal well enough to completely keep humidity in/out. De humidifiers or conditioning the space will always be required to some degree if you want to control humidity.