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Thanks for all the replies! We ended up taking back the treated wood and going with 2x6x12s, untreated. We do have the special treated wood screws and used those to attach the frame. thecoopbuilder - thanks for offering the design, we just did a simple 8' sloping to 5' roof.

We were a little worried about the extra weight of the treated 2x6x12s... Is that a consideration?

I thought treated rafters were a good idea ... Is it not common to use them? The salesman at Lowes said he would use treated if it was just hardware cloth on the walls. The purlins will not be treated, but I was going to seal the ends of them. Is it a mistake to use treated rafters or just...

DH just took the 2x4x12s for the rafters back, we will be building with 2x6s. Thank you SO much Paul for your help, and I'm definitely bookmarking that site!

Wow, thank you so much for running those numbers. The information (and source for reference) are VERY helpful!! I think we will have another trip into town tomorrow, better to do things right than to try to get done with what we have, this is costing enough money as is no use cutting corners...

Thanks for your reply! We don't often get rain in the winter, but we do get a decent amount of snow. I do have a roof shovel and put this roof at a pretty good pitch, the metal roof on our house does a pretty good job of having the snow just slide right off, I was hoping that would sort of be...

We're constructing a run that is 24' long by 10' wide. We're building it out of treated wood, and would like to cut the stuff as LITTLE as possible. Do we have to cut birdsmouths out of the 2x4x12s that will be spanning the 10' side? Can we get away with rafter/hurricane brackets? The run...