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My situation: Our second home will hopefully become our primary residence in the next couple of years. It's located in SW Wisconsin. We have a 30x48x14 pole shed that's very well insulated with closed cell foam. The walls are finished, but it's open to the trusses (roof is also insulated). We...

A few weeks ago my son and daughter-in-law purchased a home in the Chicago suburbs. One of my son's priorities was upgrading the garage. Since the house had been filled with furniture and boxes when they looked at it, he didn't have much of an idea of the floor's condition. With my travel...

Here's the deal: We have a place in Wisconsin that will, in the next few years, become our primary home. We built a 30' x 48' pole barn with 14' walls that functions as a garage and general catch-all. The spray foam insulation is done. The walls are finished. Ultimately, I'll do something to...

We just finished the closed-cell foaming of our 30' x 48' Cleary pole barn in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. This is a very bad iPhone photo, before we had moved everything back into place: The side walls are 14' high. This building serves as our garage/storage shed and, rather often, the...

Mornin', all . . . I'm a Chicago suburbs guy. Over the past couple of years, my wife and I have been working on what we hope will be our retirement home in a couple of years time. I'll spare you the less relevant details, but part of where we're going with all of this involves a 30' x 48'...

Here's my story: Wifey and I live in the Chicago suburbs and built a cabin in Southwest Wisconsin a couple of years ago. One of the first steps in this multi-year project was the construction of a 30 x 48 pole shed, which we refer to as "the Barn." Most of the focus over the past couple of...