Siding material, ventilation, and other coop questions.

[aart]

Still figuring things out myself. Did a lot of reading.

You seem to know quite a bit about building....what is your background?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

"yes".

I started out doing CAD Architectural Drafting. Also some software coding.
Did some civil engineering, rainfall runoff calculations, water quality testing.
Did some metal piping drawings - power plants, liquid gas transportation, Shuttle Launch Pad 39b - same purpose, White House A/C ducting (very little), other stuff I can't talk about.
Spent some more time in college.
Sold sporting equipment.
Sold firearms
Managed a pizza joint
Got into customer service in a call center
Became part of legal staff for a major manufacturer (but am NOT an attorney)

Semi-retired and moved to the country.

Never had much money. Always wanted to know how things worked. Have every skilled trade you can imagine as family members to call on as resources.

So, I've done my own plumbing (copper and Pex), my own electrical (110, 220) from the meter box to the final outlet. Some concrete work, tile, framing, roofing, sheet rock (badly), lighting. Showers, sinks and vanities. Flooring, but no carpet. Currently building a house - or would, if I could get someone with an excavator out into my neck of nowhere to dig the foundations...

Handful of survival skills, most pretty rusty - from friction fires to brain tanning, brewing, smoking, brining, and canning - you get the idea.

The barn, storage shed, hen house, etc were all much smaller constructions, so did them myself - all manual labor, dug the foundations with a shovel. (used a power driver for the screw on the walls, and a rechargable impact wrench on the roof - I'm stubborn, not stupid.) Have built similar structures in the past, repaired many more.

 

[black_cat]

"yes".

I started out doing CAD Architectural Drafting. Also some software coding.
Did some civil engineering, rainfall runoff calculations, water quality testing.
Did some metal piping drawings - power plants, liquid gas transportation, Shuttle Launch Pad 39b - same purpose, White House A/C ducting (very little), other stuff I can't talk about.
Spent some more time in college.
Sold sporting equipment.
Sold firearms
Managed a pizza joint
Got into customer service in a call center
Became part of legal staff for a major manufacturer (but am NOT an attorney)

Semi-retired and moved to the country.

Never had much money. Always wanted to know how things worked. Have every skilled trade you can imagine as family members to call on as resources.

So, I've done my own plumbing (copper and Pex), my own electrical (110, 220) from the meter box to the final outlet. Some concrete work, tile, framing, roofing, sheet rock (badly), lighting. Showers, sinks and vanities. Flooring, but no carpet. Currently building a house - or would, if I could get someone with an excavator out into my neck of nowhere to dig the foundations...

Handful of survival skills, most pretty rusty - from friction fires to brain tanning, smoking, brining, and canning - you get the idea.

The barn, storage shed, hen house, etc were all much smaller constructions, so did them myself - all manual labor, dug the foundations with a shovel. (used a power driver for the screw on the walls, and a rechargable impact wrench on the roof - I'm stubborn, not stupid.) Have built similar structures in the past, repaired many more.

Wow. That's so cool!

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I get bored easily. But yes, there have been some exciting moments.

The ducting in the White House A/C is made from titanium, btw. Some alloy provided by the Gov't. They keep a close inventory of the stuff. Weren't real happy when they found out how much disappeared into the air when passed thru a plasma torch.

Oh, and I've done some lobbying, and a lot of lobbying support - mostly US, but also support for lobbying in some foreign countries. Don't hold that against me. Not all lobbying is bad.

and civil engineering is mind-numbingly, back-breakingly boring. 0/10 do not recommend.

 

[black_cat]

OH, I've been redrawing all my framing for the 2 inch side facing out and this looks SO MUCH better and more building plan-y

 

[NatJ]

I'd like to get some of that isometric (I think that that was the word) graph paper so I can properly scale things on paper.

If you have a printer and some paper, you can print it out.
I just used google and searched for printable isometric graph paper.
Lots of choices there!

 

[NatJ]

OH, I've been redrawing all my framing for the 2 inch side facing out and this looks SO MUCH better and more building plan-y

When building houses (and sheds and chicken coops), if you frame it with 2x4's, you usually get walls about 4" thick. 2x6's give you 6" walls, 2x8's give you 8" thick, and so forth. (Thicker walls make enough space for thicker insulation inside the wall--good in some extremely cold places, but not needed for your chicken house.)

 

[aart]

Always wanted to know how things worked.

Same here!
I learned basic architectural construction as part of my design/drafting degree,
we drew full plans to build a house shell.
Learned drafting on the board, then in CAD.
Drafting internship was at a large manufacturing company, in all disciplines.
Ended up 20 years there in equipment design.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

"funny" story. When I started, we had just one computer for CAD in the classroom. An 8086 with the 8087 math co-processor chip. My board drawings were crisp (in spite of being a lefty), but my handwriting was illegible (partial consequence of being trained to write as a right-y. Left handedness was not permitted by my early elementary teachers). So when the time came to use the new computer to do our drafting work...

I spent a lot of time on that keyboard.

All Disciplines. That must be nice. Rare to see anyone with more than a single specialization any more, maybe two.

 

[aart]

When I started, we had just one computer for CAD in the classroom. An 8086 with the 8087 math co-processor chip.

I can't remember the machines, or the software, I learned cad on at the CC.
I picked it up pretty quick despite just having learned any computer skills at all,
was taking an 'office' type computer class at the same time.
But the internship we ran Microstation off VAX's. Part of our job was running backup to tape.

All Disciplines. That must be nice. Rare to see anyone with more than a single specialization any more, maybe two.

Well, I did drafting for all disciplines...no design, but it was a great exposure.