Thank goodness we weren't using it!!
My 3 car garage turned barn collapsed this afternoon. We didn't even notice a problem with it until a few days ago.
In a way it's sort of funny. The walls are all flat out to the side and the roof is sitting squarely on the cement. Whomever built it had no business building anything. The walls apparently weren't connected and the the way the trusses were built (just basically boards butted together instead of overlapped) is ridiculous. It was built in 1996 I believe In theory it should have been able to handle this snow, my 2 story 2 car garage (where my goats and pony live underneath) and house are perfectly fine, both built in the late 20's. I guess there is something to be said about the quality of buildings now a days.
Well hopefully insurance will cover it, but either way we should have enough wood to rebuild it the right way, and more to our liking. What a day. First I don't exist with my phone company and now my barn is gone. I guess all I can do is laugh.
My 3 car garage turned barn collapsed this afternoon. We didn't even notice a problem with it until a few days ago.
In a way it's sort of funny. The walls are all flat out to the side and the roof is sitting squarely on the cement. Whomever built it had no business building anything. The walls apparently weren't connected and the the way the trusses were built (just basically boards butted together instead of overlapped) is ridiculous. It was built in 1996 I believe In theory it should have been able to handle this snow, my 2 story 2 car garage (where my goats and pony live underneath) and house are perfectly fine, both built in the late 20's. I guess there is something to be said about the quality of buildings now a days.
Well hopefully insurance will cover it, but either way we should have enough wood to rebuild it the right way, and more to our liking. What a day. First I don't exist with my phone company and now my barn is gone. I guess all I can do is laugh.