Roofing 3

Here is a view from the top of the scaffolding while they were doing the back. The platform was nice because it was very stable to work off of.




Looking up the back roof from the top of the scaffolding.



Front view with the scaffolding gone and the snow birds on.

Roofing 2

A nice view of the roof before the flashing went on.




Here you can see the snow birds that I bought to put on the roof. These are designed to break up ice and snow as it melts and runs off the roof. If you did not have these someone could get hurt if the ice decides to let go while they were under it.

This is the set up Brian came up with to flash around the cupola and to run the ridge cap. He put cloth around the ladder rungs so that he didn't scratch the roof at all. It came out really nice.

Roofing 1

Doug Pieffer came over to help me on the ground. We drilled all of the holes in preparation for the installation. Brian measured each lat row and we pre -drilled 5 at a time.




Once we had everything in place they were off. Each side needed 17 pieces and they were 224 inches long. We left an inch overhang at the bottom and kept it down 2 inches from the top for a vented ridge cap. With the cupola and the gable vents, this should allow heat to escape from the barn.



Here two of the workers were carefully hoisting the steel up the scaffolding so that they did not scratch the finish. It took about 3.5 hours per side of actual work, but setting up and moving the scaffolding to the other side took a considerable amount of time.

Ready to Roof

This is the trailer that has all of the roofing steel on it. I hired Brian Smith from Hagerstown to install the roof. I did not have the equipment or the man power to do this myself.



Here is Brian's scaffolding set up. Very stable and he has two 24 foot platforms so he could just walk along the roof.

Truss Plates

These are the truss plates that my architect said I had to use. They are 5 X 16 and they have 4- 5 inch ledger lock screws in the post, 3 in the side of the sill plate and two 3 inch tap cons into the foundation.



Jenn's fiance Freddie stopped in to help and got put to work. Here he is grinding truss plates to custom fit each one. After that he sanded them and painted them. Later on in the day I installed them.





Each post in the interior gets a 4 X4 steel angle iron on each side. I had to have a machine shop make these for me. It delayed me a little but I would have taken longer to build them and they still would not have come out this nice. Each one has 4- 5 inch ledger lock bolts and 2 - 5 inch wedge bolts that go down into the concrete. Unless we get a direct hit by a tornado we should be OK.

Another view of the truss plates.

Inspectors

The inspectors showed up to check out the progress. On the left is my daughter Jennifer and in the middle is her fiance Freddie Joye and on the right is my wife Sandy. Jennifer and Freddie want to have their reception in the barn in August. Sandy just wants to know when we can start growing grass.


A look at one of the best inventions ever, a Pettybone in action. This saved me so much time it was worth every penny to rent it.

Power washing the barn

I talked my wife Sandy into power washing the outside of the barn using the Pettybone. We put the power washing machine up with her on the platform I made and I could direct it to any part of the barn. The Pettybone will extend out 40 ft.



Here is a view of Sandy measuring the opening at the top of the barn for a gable vent. I always let her have the most fun during one of these projects. There were these strange indentations on the wood like someone had a death grip on it. You can see the gable vent on the ground that we wanted to use but it is too big so I will have to make another one.




Here is a close up of her measuring for the gable vent.