StevenPaul
Silver Member
- Joined
- Sep 9, 2005
- Messages
- 133
- Location
- Anderson County, SC
- Tractor
- John Deere 2010 (Kranky), JD 4500
Hello most knowledgable of all knowledge TBN'ers,
Quick question for the "builder brainiacs", how much wood could a wood chuck chuck wood if a wood chuck could chuck wood? Ooops, wrong question.
Seriously though, is there a "best" formula for calculating the amount of lumber needed to build a building? We have 3 buildings that we are planning to build this year, hopefully, a chicken house, a workshop, and a roadside market. The chicken house will be our first "experimental" build and it's going to be a 16x48 with one 16x8 room, another 16x8 room and the rest will be for the chickens. We're wanting it to be off the ground, with a grating type floor, on a slight grade so when they poop, we can harvest the chicken poop for fertilizer for the garden. I was thinking of "pole barn" style of building, yet with it being off the ground, is that the best way to go, or do we build like a stick built house and just use framed type walls. We plan on using "ruff-cut" wood from our nearby sawmill. Last time we checked he was charging $375 for 1000 square feet of wood. We bought the "how to build a pole barn" book which is not a bad book and pretty informative and easy to follow. I know there's tons of info on other people's barn projects and maybe I missed it but I haven't seen a "formula" for estimating lumber cost.
Any input would be greatly appreciated as always,
Steve
Quick question for the "builder brainiacs", how much wood could a wood chuck chuck wood if a wood chuck could chuck wood? Ooops, wrong question.
Seriously though, is there a "best" formula for calculating the amount of lumber needed to build a building? We have 3 buildings that we are planning to build this year, hopefully, a chicken house, a workshop, and a roadside market. The chicken house will be our first "experimental" build and it's going to be a 16x48 with one 16x8 room, another 16x8 room and the rest will be for the chickens. We're wanting it to be off the ground, with a grating type floor, on a slight grade so when they poop, we can harvest the chicken poop for fertilizer for the garden. I was thinking of "pole barn" style of building, yet with it being off the ground, is that the best way to go, or do we build like a stick built house and just use framed type walls. We plan on using "ruff-cut" wood from our nearby sawmill. Last time we checked he was charging $375 for 1000 square feet of wood. We bought the "how to build a pole barn" book which is not a bad book and pretty informative and easy to follow. I know there's tons of info on other people's barn projects and maybe I missed it but I haven't seen a "formula" for estimating lumber cost.
Any input would be greatly appreciated as always,
Steve