yossarian19
Well-known member
Hey folks,
Wife and I just bought a place with a barn. The house is a house, yadda yadda, I'm excited about the barn.
It's galvanized steel frame, 36x36, posts at all four corners & every 12' along the sides so
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The posts have a channel in them, the siding is T&G boards (like 2x6 with T&G on the long side, long side horizontal) dropped in to the slot from the top.
I'd like to weatherize it a little bit. Not planning to insulate but I'd like to knock down the draft, dust, etc.
I'm thinking I can probably caulk the grooves between the boards, staple some Tyvek to the indoors side of it all and put up whatever wall surface fits the budget. Probably sheet rock, maybe tin. Then seal the outside face of the T&G somehow and call it good enough.
Does this sound like a decent plan? If so, what do I want to use to caulk the T&G boards? Elastomeric compound?
Wife and I just bought a place with a barn. The house is a house, yadda yadda, I'm excited about the barn.
It's galvanized steel frame, 36x36, posts at all four corners & every 12' along the sides so
I __12'__ I __12'__ I __12'__I if you can follow my ASCII diagram here
The posts have a channel in them, the siding is T&G boards (like 2x6 with T&G on the long side, long side horizontal) dropped in to the slot from the top.
I'd like to weatherize it a little bit. Not planning to insulate but I'd like to knock down the draft, dust, etc.
I'm thinking I can probably caulk the grooves between the boards, staple some Tyvek to the indoors side of it all and put up whatever wall surface fits the budget. Probably sheet rock, maybe tin. Then seal the outside face of the T&G somehow and call it good enough.
Does this sound like a decent plan? If so, what do I want to use to caulk the T&G boards? Elastomeric compound?