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    Resources / advice for interior rooms with loft ceiling in pole building

    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...
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    House wrap after siding is up

    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...
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    Metal siding on plywood with no vapor barrier - trouble?

    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...
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    Leaking windows / doors - flashing installed incorrectly?

    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...
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