The $500 barn

[yogifink]

one more post for the night, here's the view from our deck:

 

[yogifink]

Partial layering to waterproof roof until the rest of green roof layers go on?
Sounds good. Will extra water(from heavy rains) be able to get off roof?

Providential birth control?

lol something like that. My son is 3 months, so it didn't work when we were wwoofing!

plan to just put the tar paper on and leave it. I thought that stuff could hold out for a couple years un aided? not that it will be that long of course... hopefully.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Hey Yogi, You are about 2.5 hours due south of here! Hi neighbor.​

 

[yogifink]

When I put the rafters in, I left them wild.

I keep bumping my head on them, so I decided that cutting them to length would be my first task of the weekend.

When I put down the purlins, I figured that I could use them as a rip guide for my chainsaw and get a nice straight line. The way I figured, being that I am not exactly a chainsaw artist, any help I could get was welcomed. I thought chalking a line would be problematic and give me rafters at different angles and lengths.

Well, I was kind of right. The cuts came out nice, but it took me a few hours. A lot longer than I had hoped.

 

[aart]

A lot longer than I had hoped.

Sigh...it usually does.
Looks great tho!

 

[Elyrian1]

Any project I start takes three times longer than I expect... lol.

Starting to come together and look really good though, I can't say anything about anyone's chainsaw skills because I probably couldn't pick one up, forget cutting anything with it. Sheesh.

 

[yogifink]

After I got the rafters cut to length I went to town with plywood.

I have been diving for plywood for several months. The stuff I am using is beat up, but hey, it's free.

Mostly I am getting from a freight company down the road from my house. In the freight business, we call plywood dunnage. It's used between pallets to prevent shifting and damage while in transit. Shipping companies buy seconds from plywood manufactures. they purchase sheets that are not suitable for sale. As example I had several 3/4 inch beadboard sheets that where 3/4 on one end and 1/2 on the other with the beads on the think side, but not the thin. They are also different sizes, several pieces that were 47 inches wide, not 48, as example.

here's an example of what I'm working with:

This piece was 54 inches wide, 92 inches long and wavey between 3/4 and 1/2. Than in was properly used on in a shipping dock and beat to all hell.

This was one of thr better sheets.

 

[yogifink]

So considering the questionable intigrety of the plywood, I doubled up on the roof and over lapped all the joints. 2 sheets gave me a nice stable 3/4 to 1 inch thick deck.

I did not double on the walls, as I did not think it is necessary. This is about as far as I got with the plywood for the weekend because I ran out of material and decided I'd rather take my peanut to the park than hunt for more.

 

[yogifink]

Monday we slept in. I was a bit tired from all the ladder work on Sunday. So we slept till 8 then made nutella and banana french toast!

Then we made a family trip to the big box store and played on thr blue carts for a while. I had to pick up some tar paper and nails for the roof.

I didn't get enough.

After a few hours of work, back to the store I went...

So I didn't get much done yesterday, but here's where I'm at:

 

[yogifink]

I ended up using 4 rolls of roofing felt. I bought the think stuff, thinking it would stand up a little better to the jaggedness of the plywood. So I'm another 80 bucks in, for 230 total spend right now.

on full disclosure, I am not including the cost of hardware. I have a lot from building the house and various other projects.