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

[aart]

Oh ....cellulose should hold the seeds.

 

[speckledhen]

Oh ....cellulose should hold the seeds.

I guess that's what it's supposed to do, right? Here is the way it looked before the grass sprouted.

 

[aart]

Quote: Yep, sure is....looks like it worked too, as that's one hell of a slope!
I think the green coloration is some kind of a fertilizer to help get the grass started.....kinda looks nice too.

 

[speckledhen]

Sometimes, I rather envy folks who have families who will say, "Hey, I'll be over this afternoon to help you with ___________". Yeah, not happening. This is going to take awhile.

Rain coming in overnight tonight. I worry about the rock wall side not having any concrete gutter but it wasn't an issue with the other rains, so maybe it will be fine. I did scrape out the little ditch back there. If it holds and the rest of our work does, too, we will put plastic on the ground inside the barn and keep that incessant moisture from wicking up through the paver base; all that stuff from when it got soaked twice is still making its presence known, though I can feel it drying out day by day as I pick that stuff up and squeeze it in my palm. Now, it doesn't just clump together, but seems much, much drier. Yet, it would take months for it to completely dry out, so if no water intrusion is present after this rain, plastic is going down and maybe we won't that condensation on all the windows and steel beams, etc. Fans are running in there 24/7, hanging on ropes from the rafters, swinging around. We'll get the back gutter area when we can manage to do it. DH is hurting a lot lately and though I could do some of that by myself, it sure isn't fun to do that stuff alone. I have to buy plastic now. The black stuff has punctures, though we'll use it for the first layer. I cannot find the remainder of the roll of clear 6 mil we had lying around.

I just found out that one of my D'Anver hens is dying. I have no idea why, really, though she's never really been right, has only laid for a year of her four years. Wrong Way Lucy is on her way out, sadly.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

We don't have that type of family either, everything done here is done by my husband and I, we are getting too old and crippled for construction but we still keep doing what's needed, so I understand your aches and pains. I keep hoping you get it all figured out and can start enjoying your new shed. All this rain doesn't help, hopefully you aren't going to get what we are getting, wish it was snow.

Sorry about your little hen, most of mine just die one day without any signs, I figure it's a quick easy death, hopefully your little girl passes easily.

 

[aart]

I do everything around here all by myself......very rarely I'll get someone to help with larger projects or heavy parts I just can't do myself, or hire it done if it's unavoidable.....
......and I plan a big one when my daughter comes on her annual visit.

 

[1muttsfan]

Sorry about Lucy bird

 

[speckledhen]

Sorry about Lucy bird

Thanks, she's hanging in there, getting crop massages, which do seem to be helping, but her color is still very dark and she's weak.


Overnight, windstorms gusting up to 45 mph, carrying on into today's rain event. It didn't last as long as we thought it was supposed to, no more than maybe an hour or two of downpour, but.... the barn didn't leak under the walls! NO water intrusion, yea!

I am doing an experiment. The steel framing members that will not be covered by wall board, the ones up high especially, are getting a coating of this rubberized stuff, just to see if they will be less affected by air temps. I'm hoping that might hold back condensation and dripping from them. It's called Plasti-Dip, costs less than $6/can, sprays really nicely, one can covers a good bit. I used one can today of dark gray. If it does well, I will buy more and just coat them as well as the interior of the box trim (metal exposed to temps inside, possibly subject to condensation).



Skies just before the rain hit.

 

[1muttsfan]

It will be interesting to see how the spray-on stuff works.

It rained here ALL DAY - 3" plus. Driveway is a creek, glad I graded it this summer.

 

[aart]

That plastic spray stuff looks interesting....any special prep you had to do?

Rained here most all day too....not hard tho really, no creeks.