I'll try and keep things short, but sorry in advance for the rambling on.....
Long time lurker, finally able to post.
I'm a life long garage rat, it's my happy place. I've always been "into" anything cars, trucks, RV's, boats, basically anything with an engine. Built many race and street cars for lot's of people and myself. Really enjoy fabrication, metal work, etc. Been working pretty much my whole adult life out of a 24'x28' garage that I built basically because that was the biggest I could put on our small property. My dream was to buy a property with acreage and build a 40x60-ish, hydronic heated floors, spray foam, lifts, yada, yada, yada.
Well, the kids were finally all grown with careers of their own so my wife and I bought a beautiful property outside of town with 12 acres. The house has great bones and is quite fine the way it is, but was last remodeled when it was built I think, lol. So, mamma has my honey-do list pretty full. We purchased last July and already have done all 3 bathrooms over (2 of them being a complete gut), and designed and purchased all the cabinets for a completely new kitchen that includes adding a sliding door and replacing and relocating a large window. However, Mama said I could take some time off inside the house to built my new Barn !
The property already had a 28'x48' post frame garage that is in pretty good shape. The 'few' issues I have with it are 1. only 9' ceilings, 2. the roadside has 1-16' wood overhead door, I always hated these as they are heavy and not really wide enough for 2 vehicles, and 3. the electric was only ran as a 30 amp service. Which isn't very good for the plethora of welders, milling machine, and bandsaws that I have. So, for this barn I already purchased 2-10' wide commercial overhead doors, and am starting a plan to upgrade the wiring (sux that it's like 100 yards from the main house with 200 amp service...). However, this barn is going to wait a bit as the main reason for this thread is the "new" barn.
Because I have the existing barn, I have changed my wants and needs a bit. I want the new barn basically connected to the existing one, so to keep it comfortably within the properly line and along the terrain as I want, I have settled on a 32' x 56'. The existing barn runs north and south and is an eave entry. I am building the new barn east to west with a gable entry. The walls will be 16' high to both tower above the existing barn's roof peak and to accommodate our 13' tall diesel pusher RV. I have also elected to forgo the radiant heat and spray foam insulation as I no longer plan on heating this space for now. My workshop will be in the 'other' barn. Additionally, I have not designed any electric during this phase as that will come when I pull a permit for the main barn re-wiring. I am building this all out of pocket and doing the electric and any insulation / heat down the road will help ensure I won't have to borrow any money to complete it. One 14' x 14' overhead, and 36" man door along the front, and 1-10'x10' door at the rear for tractors, 4 wheelers, etc. The design includes perma-column post bases, 3-ply glu-lam posts, 32' trusses with 24" overhang, and traditional metal siding and roof panels.
The existing barn had a 12' x 28' lean-to at the north end, the first order of business was to remove this, and level the property. We also dropped 8 pine trees that were in the area of the new build. 1 large oak sat right next to the lean-to and hung over the existing barn, I paid to have that one cut down as I wanted no part of it.
On to the pics so-far.
Long time lurker, finally able to post.
I'm a life long garage rat, it's my happy place. I've always been "into" anything cars, trucks, RV's, boats, basically anything with an engine. Built many race and street cars for lot's of people and myself. Really enjoy fabrication, metal work, etc. Been working pretty much my whole adult life out of a 24'x28' garage that I built basically because that was the biggest I could put on our small property. My dream was to buy a property with acreage and build a 40x60-ish, hydronic heated floors, spray foam, lifts, yada, yada, yada.
Well, the kids were finally all grown with careers of their own so my wife and I bought a beautiful property outside of town with 12 acres. The house has great bones and is quite fine the way it is, but was last remodeled when it was built I think, lol. So, mamma has my honey-do list pretty full. We purchased last July and already have done all 3 bathrooms over (2 of them being a complete gut), and designed and purchased all the cabinets for a completely new kitchen that includes adding a sliding door and replacing and relocating a large window. However, Mama said I could take some time off inside the house to built my new Barn !
The property already had a 28'x48' post frame garage that is in pretty good shape. The 'few' issues I have with it are 1. only 9' ceilings, 2. the roadside has 1-16' wood overhead door, I always hated these as they are heavy and not really wide enough for 2 vehicles, and 3. the electric was only ran as a 30 amp service. Which isn't very good for the plethora of welders, milling machine, and bandsaws that I have. So, for this barn I already purchased 2-10' wide commercial overhead doors, and am starting a plan to upgrade the wiring (sux that it's like 100 yards from the main house with 200 amp service...). However, this barn is going to wait a bit as the main reason for this thread is the "new" barn.
Because I have the existing barn, I have changed my wants and needs a bit. I want the new barn basically connected to the existing one, so to keep it comfortably within the properly line and along the terrain as I want, I have settled on a 32' x 56'. The existing barn runs north and south and is an eave entry. I am building the new barn east to west with a gable entry. The walls will be 16' high to both tower above the existing barn's roof peak and to accommodate our 13' tall diesel pusher RV. I have also elected to forgo the radiant heat and spray foam insulation as I no longer plan on heating this space for now. My workshop will be in the 'other' barn. Additionally, I have not designed any electric during this phase as that will come when I pull a permit for the main barn re-wiring. I am building this all out of pocket and doing the electric and any insulation / heat down the road will help ensure I won't have to borrow any money to complete it. One 14' x 14' overhead, and 36" man door along the front, and 1-10'x10' door at the rear for tractors, 4 wheelers, etc. The design includes perma-column post bases, 3-ply glu-lam posts, 32' trusses with 24" overhang, and traditional metal siding and roof panels.
The existing barn had a 12' x 28' lean-to at the north end, the first order of business was to remove this, and level the property. We also dropped 8 pine trees that were in the area of the new build. 1 large oak sat right next to the lean-to and hung over the existing barn, I paid to have that one cut down as I wanted no part of it.
On to the pics so-far.
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. I'm interested to see how the Perma-Columns work out. Good luck!
