2011 June - Build barn from foundation up to the roof

In previous article I wrote about how my friend and me, started build barn.

23 May 2011 - How to make barn foundation


In this article I will describe how we build 1st floor, walls and roof.
I haven't finished yet but it will be interesting look at our progress.
First of all we started from electricity. We decided to build frame based barn, so it would require to use electric drill a lot.
My friend, Alex, bought deep cycle battery and inverter for that. We tested it couple times in a garage to check if it handles enough power.
Interesting fact: some tools work fine and some wouldn't even start. We had one drill on battery and couple powered by electricity, which used following schema:

We delivered materials - bars and plywood by this way:

We started from the base and made frame, which makes base for the floor.

We double checked level and it was fine :-) We also installed horizontal bars, so our floor would be strong enough to handle pressure.

It took as a time to finish 1rst level as a floor. My friend bought floor plywood and we finished in in couple of hours.

Here is how we started build frames for walls: we simply made 4 frames with size 96x96 (we had to cut 2 bars by 3 inches to make perfect square)
and 2 frames with size (96x89) inches - 89 because 96 - (3.5 inches x2 for long wall bar)



after that we added horizontal bars in 24 inches each. We used 3 inches screws for that.

first day was over and we put shield from rain on top of our frames:

Assembling roof

We started assemble roof on the ground by 2 half. The Idea was to use crane to lift it up later.

Next step was to make 90 degrees corner and bound sides to each other. We used temporary bars for that.

To make sure that roof will fit properly we flipped it over and installed on base

We assembled second half of the roof the same way.

Assembling walls

We were getting pleasure installing walls, because we could see result. We used drill for that. Main work was screw, screw ....

We made following wall connection at the barn corner:

Here is how we finished it:

We covered roof with cheap plywood - ~11CAD for sheet
We made calculation regarding plywood and here it is:
12 sheets for walls (4x8)
8+1 sheets for roof

We satrted think to cover roof with good protection. We even bought it - you can see it in next picture. After some calculations we decided return it back and use different one.

Final steps (in this article) - cover walls with plywood:

Next step would be install door and windows and lift roof on the top. I will describe it in next article.