I started hanging siding on the West side.
I know. I am doing this backwards. Normally, with post frame buildings a crew does bottom up construction. They start at the ground and end with the roof. What can I say. I'm different.
section posted: Dec 30, 2010
After several days of hanging siding Barny's final physique is really emerging.
The holes are for windows. They will be covered with translucent fiberglass panels that mate with the steel siding. They are commonly used on post frame buildings for sky lights. You can't see anything through them but they pass some sunlight and solar heat as well. My shorter wall faces East so it can get direct sunshine in the morning. The longer side faces North so it will provide ambient light only.
I'm bending all my own trim with an aluminum brake. So before making 84 feet of eve edging I did a small test area to work out the details.
Putting it all up on the walls was slow going. Those eves are twenty feet off the ground. I used scaffolding but with girts now sided over I had to use my ladder jacks as intended. Scaffolds on 20 foot ladders were wobbly so I worked extra slowly and carefully. Doing a section at a time took ten different scaffold set-ups to trim the tops of the front and rear walls. That included sponge rubber seals that keep runoff from wicking or blowing back under the ribs of roof panels. It took another couple days working on the roof itself to trim out the gable edges. I also capped the ridge with more sponge seals. I spent some of that time up there with a driver and apron full of screws making sure all the seams were tight. That finished the roof!
I then closed up the wall bottoms with plate trim and wainscot panels.
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As you can see the wall corners still have an open gap. They will also be edged with emerald green but that can wait a spell. You may have noticed I haven't shown pix of the front lately. At this point what I have is a roof and three sides.