I love seeing all these barns getting well-deserved attention.
Little update on one of mine....
Front before. New gutters/downspouts were done a couple of weeks before.
Front with roof painted.
Front view with one side done.
A view from the other end.
Before. (again, after gutters/downspouts)
Roof painted. The old boarded-over door is also being blocked up here. Making the foundation all one height, I don't need or want that door. The blocks are filled, and prior to that, bar was drilled into the concrete threshold. Its essentially a solid foundation wall now.
End wall of the "Straw-shed" part of the barn. This end had lots of openings to allow for filling all the way to the top with straw or hay.
Inside of same wall. That weird large truss thing will soon be history too, it was apparently built to allow the ground level to be free-spanned, but was causing the wall to bow out from the load. Bad design, but interesting idea. We added posts back in at ground level after jacking the beams up 4". The weird truss thing will be removed when I get around to it - maybe a basketball court in the near future?
You can see one of the new posts in this picture, and some of the cabling I added to pull the wall back in with come-alongs. Worked well as a temporary fix, moved the wall back in over 6" that way. It had moved enough to start dropping floor joists, that's when I noticed the problem!
Lots better.
Other side.
Has a "rubrail" so it does not ding the siding up when opening it. (That's the white horizontal piece)
Inside of sliding door. Someday when/if I pour concrete back here I can bring it right up to the new door and darn near have a weather-tight seal.
Three openings are all framed up for overhead doors as well.
Stuck up sections of the old doors, they stopped some of the weather until the overhead doors show up.
Lots of progress on the front.
Finished end wall of hay shed back section of barn.
Nearly finished other end wall. Some trim and soffits left.
The small single overhead opening is all framed now. Finish siding and some more trim, then doors. The small opening, we reverse calculated in order to get the door & track as close as possible to the overhead beams, then measure downwards in order to raise the threshold as far as possible. This is as good as it gets, I had planned on a small retaining wall and 2 levels on the front, now I know exactly where they have to go.
All trimmed up.
Front is done. Just waiting for doors now, those are the old sliders just screwed to the inside to block the opening temporarily, I was limited to just using the man-door.
Finished! (Is there ever really such a thing as finished?)
Need to dig out and pour a threshhold here. I intentionally waited until the door was in (we crammed it UP as far as possible, let the bottom fall where it will as long as it is UP as close to the ceiling beams as it can go). Am planning on a 10' apron as well. Have to get creative where the outside elevations change from the big doors to the little one, no getting around that.
