Closed for the Winter

Last week I was home for a couple days and working with Bill managed to get the side door installed and I also closed the back doorway for the winter until I build the custom door for the opening. This week Townsend Roofing fabricated and installed the standing seam roof.

 

Here's most of the panels for the west side formed and ready for installation.

The start of installing the drip edge and ridge cap.

Barry's guys installing the first half of the roof.

 

View from the front with the roof finished. Bill finished out the garage door openings with aluminum. He'll also put some 1x4 trim on the wall around the door openings when he trims out the windows.  

East side of the building with the roof finished and the window trim started. The two lower left windows are done, the two lower right windows have the pine installed, awaiting the aluminum wrap. 

East gable wall with the roof complete. Trim started on the right lower window. Left lower will await me finishing the door and we'll trim out the window and door at the same time. Door opening closed for the winter, though I need to put some strapping in place to keep the plastic from flapping in the wind.

West wall with the roof installed. We installed the side door last week. Just need to install the lock set which was at the locksmith getting rekeyed when I left town again last week. 

Windows Installed

Battenkill Builders finished wrapping the soffits and installing the windows this week. Next up is to trim out the windows and Townsend Roofing will put the roof on next week as well.

 

West wall - all the windows installed. Need to buy an exterior door for that wall next week.

South Wall with the soffits done and windows installed.

 

North wall with all the windows installed.

East wall with all eight windows installed.

Starting to get weathertight

Battenkill Builders has been moving along on the soffits and has started on window installation. 

The west side soffits are done. 

 

The structure is all in place on the south gable. More metal needs to be bent to finish the gable.

Same on the north gable - structure all in place, a little more metal needed to finish up. 

The east side soffit is done, with the vented panels all in place. 

The first four windows went in place in a couple hours Wednesday afternoon. 

Windows have an unfinished pine interior. I will need to build extension jambs to bring them out to the finished wall depth. 

Time for the contractors

I'm off to Pennsylvania for a few weeks, so wrapped a few things up and then passed things off to contractors to finish roof prep, put on the roof, install doors and windows. 

Needed to tie the staircase post to the joist so built this little hook out of a 4x6 and pegged it to the post and screwed it to the joist. 

Another shot of the post and hook.

Still some work to finish off the floor on the north side.

South side floor is all in place. One circuit has been run to the second floor, now I've just got to run more outlets around the shop. 

Underside of the south side floor. Garage door openings all framed out for the hi-lift doors. 

Another shot of the south side floor. 

I had an electrician pull the main feed from the meter to the main panel in the building. He also upgraded the drop and meter socket to 200A.

When Tim upgraded the drop, he found this splice had failed to the house. We were experiencing flickering lights in the house - this failed splice explains it. 

I have another contractor working on the soffits - last step before the roof goes on. 

Friday the garage doors were installed. 

The doors were set up for liftmaster jack shaft openers.

With the door up 9', it will provide good clearance for cars on the lift. 

Eventually the door openers will be mounted between the two doors and connected to the torsion bars above the doors. 

Exterior Sheathing and Roof Insulation

August and September were busy with sheathing and wrapping the building in Tyvek, and insulating the roof and putting all the framing in place for the standing seam roof. 

Starting the sheathing and Tyvek on the Southern exposure

Most of the way up the north wall working off of staging. 

East wall all sheathed and starting to strap down roof insulation. 

About half the insulation up on the roof - some of it is sitting waiting against some cribbing on the west side of the roof while I lay it on the east side. I put a vertical run and a horizontal run of 3" poly iso insulation on the roof for a total R37 insulation value. 

The insulation all in place, along with Grace Tryflex along the lower 6' or so of the roof to help with condensation runoff. 2x6 vertical strapping is beginning to be laid down. I used 12" #15 screws to drive through the 2x6, 6" of foam and 1" roof boards and into the 6x6 rafters underneath. 

Rear wall all sheathed. 

My brother-in-law Ed bringing insulation up to the roof with his bucket truck. Faster than me hauling them up a ladder, though about 30 minutes after he brought this load up, the wind came up and blew about a dozen panels off the roof. 

I put 2x4 purlins 16" on center for the standing seam roof to attach, and laid 3' of plywood with Grace Ice and Water shield to protect against any ice dams. 

Looking at the south end of the building after it was all sheathed and wrapped with Tyvek and the roof prep was done. Next up is having a contractor finish out the soffits, then the roof can go on. 

Same roof detail on the east side. 

Back and east sides of the building also all covered in plywood and Tyvek. 

The Foam Cup

July was focused on getting exterior wall framing done, and wrapping the entire exterior with Styrofoam rigid insulation. This provides a full thermal break on the building. We'll also stuff the walls with Roxul rock wool insulation, for a total wall insulation of R25.

 Framed in the garage door openings and starting the insulation on the first floor. 

 West side first floor mostly insulated and the wall framing and bracing on the second floor. 

Back (North) first floor window framing done and insulation done.  

 East wall first floor windows rough framed and insulation started. 

 Second floor nearly complete and Joe taking a break in the attic window opening, though second floor window framing still remaining to be finished on west wall. 

Front (south) wall completely framed and insulated, and west wall, though insulation not trimmed on upper windows. Second and third story windows are all 3-0 wide by 3-6 high. First floor window is 3-0 by 4-0 to match it to height of side door rough opening. 

View of west side wall with it's three windows framed and the four sets of braces. It will be a shame to cover them, but at least it will be vintage barn boards for the interior walls. 

Attic gable wall looking out the north window. 

 Attic gable wall looking out the south window over the neighbor's pasture. 

Looking at the east wall - notice no braces on this side so I was able to get an extra window on this side - four on the first and four on the second floor.

Looking at the north end of the shop. Staircase will eventually come up in the left corner of the room. 

 Looking back at the south wall.

Rear (north) wall all insulated. The first floor windows are 3-0 by 4-6 high, and the three upper windows all the same 3-0 by 3-6. 

East wall all insulated, with windows aligned vertically between the floors.