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Thanks. Yes, Savoy is nice..super wintery right now. I see in your thread that you had the same considerations that I did in terms of a foundation vs. poles in the ground in wet clay soil. Somebody commented that for fungi to thrive they need wood, water, and oxygen and without one of those...

And here it sits today. Took this picture this afternoon. I have been using a small portable buddy heater to work in the barn and it gets nice and toasty. I am currently working on installing an 80,000 BTU Mr. Heater Big Maxx on the ceiling. Hope to have that up by Christmas. Next...

This past summer was mostly all interior work...insulation, electrical, and interior walls. I used 2" polyiso in between the posts and on the ceiling and foamed sealed all of the seams. Sometimes I wondered if I was going overboard, but I want to be able to work out there on cold New England...

Spent my first winter with tarps covering the doors. Last summer I finally installed overhead doors....high-lifted them. On the gable end I built barn style doors. But I am now realizing these are terribly drafty. I plan to heat this barn in the future so I think I am going to have to do an...

Some stain going on the pine. This was last summer...summer of 2018. Had some transom windows custom made in New Hampshire. Also a few pics of the interior bracing I used. I lagged pine 4x6's into each corner.

This set shows some of the pine board and batten going on. I wrapped the barn in Tyvek and nailed the 10" ship-lap boards to nailers placed 2' OC. Found a great window on Craiglist for one of the gable ends. Used a pulley and my ATV's winch to lift it into place. I've got attic trusses with...

This set shows the trusses and metal roof going on. I used my JD 990 to pick up and carry one truss at a time to my buddy's mini-excavator. He made a jig that would clamp on to the trusses and then we used it to pick the trusses up to the top plates. It was a little sketchy, but it worked...

Hey everybody. Long time lurker here. Seems like I have been using this forum for info for the past 20 years or so? Decided to join today and see if I can be more active and give back a little. Bought my house in the Berkshires Hills of Western. Mass in 2001 and have dreamed of building a...

Hey everybody. Seems like every time I have done an internet search for something house or yard or garage related in the past 20 years or so I invariably end up on this forum. Decided today to finally join and become more involved. I am in year 3 of a 25x35 barn/garage build. I'll do a...