BKBoiss
Gold Member
Nice project. Night photo makes it look ... cold!
Did you choose a tin roof because of durability, light weight, or ???. I have a garage on my property built long ago from wood milled at the property. Trusses were not engineered as it was a .... no permits required ... type of job.
I've been thinking about sheeting it with OSB and putting a composition roof on, but I don't want to put more weight than it can handle. I don't know how to figure out what weight is appropriate. Except the tin must be much lighter.
I went with tin for a number of reasons; I sawed all the lumber myself and I didn't have enough to plank the roof, the OSB is too thin therefore I would have to buy sheeting if I wanted to shingle which would raise the cost, tin doesn't allow any real snow build up, with tin I should never have to worry about redoing the roof in the lifetime of that shed, and last but not least the tin, roof caps and screws cost me $938.