Building New Coop/Barn...Phase 5 Great Barn Build, OCCUPIED! 3/6/16

[paintedChix]

ETA: I wanted to thank you for all your help and moral support, you especially, Anne, but all the other folks who check in on the thread to lend a hand. It's very much appreciated. Hey, I just passed 70K posts. I ought to shut the heck up, eh?

No, I don't think so!

We can all learn from the most experienced who are wiling to share and of course, hopefully, add some support.

I'm going back thru what I missed in this posting - can't remember where I "left off" and hadn't saved it...

 

[speckledhen]

You know what happens when you have two weeks of 60-70* highs weather in winter when it should be 20* cooler, right? RAIN. After another week-long monsoon, with roads washing away, my paths washing away, limbs falling, businesses flooded locally, my new barn has one end of the roof that has three leaks, or one leak coming out three places. We saw it earlier and called in a work order, but with the holidays and all the rain, no telling when they'll be out to fix it. And again, I have moisture inside my building.
Can I just say

? My concrete gutters did their jobs, but if the roof leaks and sideways rain pushes water in through slightly cracked windows, well...DH will be making small metal roofed awnings for the windows. He's made them before for vents and for other windows that didn't have overhangs and we have plenty of metal roofing left to cover them with. That way, windows can be left wide open during heavy rains. But the leaking roof brings it all to a halt again. The black plastic is covered with water now, all from condensation. No water coming under walls, just what leaks in three spots on the last part of the roof they completed. Sheesh.


Today, we get a break so we'll try to dry off the floor and open up the building to air out. Today, this is our sunrise. My DH said, "what is that bright yellow stuff on the mountain???" You see the sun coming from the east, spotlighting Watson and Piney mountains above the fog bank, and even the lone cabin out over the old hens' coop, through the three huge oaks I call "The Three Sisters" is glaring from its windows in the morning sun.
I wish the camera could catch the way this really looks to us here. It's amazing, the light-play on the mountainsides. It's one reason I'd hate to have to leave here some day.

For years after we moved here, I did not know this cabin was even up there, not until one sunrise, the rays hit the windows and there it was. I tried to zoom, but my zoom is crappy. Click to make them better.

 

[Folly's place]

Merry Christmas! Maybe it's good that the roof leaks turned up this soon; the builder can't claim it was damaged later. You have had a difficult building experience! What a beautiful place to live, though. Mary

 

[Peanutsmomma]

Good morning Cyn! I am so sorry for the trouble with your new barn. Hopefully, this horrible weather will allow you all to get all the kinks worked out. We are experiencing the same rotten weather here as well and the rain is supposed to continue through this coming Friday. YUCK!!!

Thank you for sharing the beautiful pics with us this morning. I just called my husband in here to see them and for a few minutes we talked about how wonderful it will be when we too can wake up to such beautiful scenery. We had a rough Christmas day as my husband's beloved father is only expected to live a few weeks. Seeing your photos this morning was a bright spot for my husband in the sadness.

Hope you and Tom had a wonderful Christmas!

 

[aart]

Gorgeous pics.....balances out(kinda) the barn issues.

Glad to hear the ground gutters are working.....have you determined if you will you have to do that last side?

Roof leaks stink, but like someone else said better sooner than later....hopefully the company will make it 'right'.

 

[speckledhen]

Merry Christmas! Maybe it's good that the roof leaks turned up this soon; the builder can't claim it was damaged later. You have had a difficult building experience! What a beautiful place to live, though. Mary

Yup, the kinks need to be worked out, maybe a blessing that we don't have the $$ to do much on the barn yet.

Good morning Cyn! I am so sorry for the trouble with your new barn. Hopefully, this horrible weather will allow you all to get all the kinks worked out. We are experiencing the same rotten weather here as well and the rain is supposed to continue through this coming Friday. YUCK!!!

Thank you for sharing the beautiful pics with us this morning. I just called my husband in here to see them and for a few minutes we talked about how wonderful it will be when we too can wake up to such beautiful scenery. We had a rough Christmas day as my husband's beloved father is only expected to live a few weeks. Seeing your photos this morning was a bright spot for my husband in the sadness.

Hope you and Tom had a wonderful Christmas!

Sorry to hear about your father. This is the first holiday season without both my DH's and my own father, who passed away in July. We don't do the season ourselves, won't go into that, but I hope you will have an awesome 2016 (that maybe finds you my neighbor!)

Gorgeous pics.....balances out(kinda) the barn issues.

Glad to hear the ground gutters are working.....have you determined if you will you have to do that last side?

Roof leaks stink, but like someone else said better sooner than later....hopefully the company will make it 'right'.

The last side will be done similar to the other three to keep it cohesive. I may make the mix soupier and just pour it thinner since it doesn't seem to be a really bad issue on that one side, furthest from the weather, being the eastern side. The building is under warranty, of course, but you know how that goes after they've left and have their $$. There are clear spray roof sealers similar to the Plasti-Dip but more permament that we can spray on the screws up there, but I want THEM to do the fix work first. I mean, this is an almost $6000 building and the roof should not leak at the outset. I'd have noticed it sooner, but how would I with all the other water pouring in under the walls and all the condensation? Anyway, when all is said and done, a building we don't have to paint other than maybe touchups on scratches with spray Rustoleum, yea!

The storm was more like a tornado. Tarps were ripped from the pens, support poles thrown down, etc. It's a nasty cleanup mess out there and we're working on it now. Back out to work...

 

[aart]

Was thinking....hard to tell where the roof is leaking because of the insulation sheets?
Maybe take a few down to get a better look?

Now wondering if the high winds were the reason for the leak?

I hope they don't just 'spray the roof'.

 

[The BlanchRanch]

Sorry about all the rotten luck. Hope it all turns out well. Maybe steel louvers for the windows? Less chance of them getting damaged in storms.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

You do have gorgeous views, that's something. My life seems full of challenges too, nothing ever works outs, but sometimes it does and I'm very happy when it does, you have put so much into this shed, eventually it has to work out and it will be so nice when you get it all worked out. Wishing you luck and hope.

 

[speckledhen]

Was thinking....hard to tell where the roof is leaking because of the insulation sheets?
Maybe take a few down to get a better look?

Now wondering if the high winds were the reason for the leak?

I hope they don't just 'spray the roof'.

You can't take them down. They were put on before the roof metal and the screws go through the insulation. I can see the water drip from the screw tips. At least I know what panels are leaking so they can redo that entire side if they have to, or put new, better backed screws, not sure how they deal with this on a metal roof.

Sorry about all the rotten luck. Hope it all turns out well. Maybe steel louvers for the windows? Less chance of them getting damaged in storms.

Not sure. I think we can make awnings like he did for the old ladies' side window with 2x2 treated lumber and top them with metal. We just re-roofed the 4x8 bantam coop with the leftover sheet metal and there should be plenty to do the awnings. If not, I can get some corrugated something or other to cover the plywood awning top with. This was horrible weather. The last time it blew this hard, we were in the outer rings of a tornado and a 40' healthy oak just toppled straight over.

You do have gorgeous views, that's something. My life seems full of challenges too, nothing ever works outs, but sometimes it does and I'm very happy when it does, you have put so much into this shed, eventually it has to work out and it will be so nice when you get it all worked out. Wishing you luck and hope.

Thanks. DH said something about, well at least he has a huge equipment shed. But then he said he didn't want his equipment getting that wet, either. I told him we'd get it fixed at some point and it would be what we intended it to be. It HAS to be. I can't afford to buy yet another building for all my birds, even if they were able to truck it up onto this property (very doubtful). It has to work. I mean, folks buy these all the time for livestock. I know their goats and cows are not holding little umbrellas in there.