strizzy said:
Hey Shark, I from Rochester and just wanted to say nice barn!
One thing, I did some work in a small shop assembling trailers and it had all metal roof and walls and when using an impact gun, it was SO loud.
Good point...I hadn't thought of that. I want to do it in something that will not be damaged by water if I choose to wash a car inside.
ng8264723 said:
What I don't understand about pole barn is how they pass code. The poles are in the dirt and you are in the snow belt without a footing. My steel building in Ma same frost as you needed a 48 inch foundation. Also what keeps the poles from rotting I know there treated but they are still in the dirt. A real foundation is better but man it's expensive
I asked the same question. I was told that because the poles are set on a small concrete pad at the bottom of 48" holes, the frost will not affect them much. I have a few friends with the same type of construction that have not witnessed any noticable adverse effects in several years. I may regret it later, but I could not get the size I wanted doing footers and traditional stick building.
wrigh003 said:
My take on it is that the fact that it's called a barn has a lot to do with it. You can get by with more on a structure that's not "intended for human habitation," I guess.
To the OP: Do you have an attic or something over that metal? Looks like a lot of space being given up. Nice start.
There are people a few towns away from me that have converted their pole barn into their house. It is built in the same fashion as mine, but has living quarters in the front, and workshop in the back. I would not choose to do that, but to each his own.
I do not have an attic above the metal. With the pitch of the roof, it is simply a crawl space that I could store some light stuff (extra siding, Christmas decorations, etc.). If I had to do it again, I would probably build slightly shorter walls, but use an attic truss to give me more useable space. My local code allows for only 24' to the peak of the roof.
snorvet said:
Very nice - the siding makes it look like a stick-built with alot of room
Thats the look we were going for. We just moved into the house in February, and I have been paying for storage on my Corvettes. We decided to put up the pole barn for cost reasons, but wanted it to look like it belonged next to our house. The siding and shingles are the same that is on the house. I want to dress up the front somehow to make it match the house a little better, so I am open to suggestions from "The Board".
