My Container Barn

[EddieWalker]

The front side.

I was hoping to get the facia boards up, but the weather stoped me again.

 

[EddieWalker]

This is the left side. I'm leaving the front open. It has walls on three sides and is 40 feet deep. The floor will remain dirt.

 

[EddieWalker]

The inside of one of my containers. They get a little crowded, but still plenty of room to get around.

 

[EddieWalker]

An earlir topic was storage of your post hole digger. From those posts I decide to hang mine from a beam. I doubled them up with half inch plywood.

 

[EddieWalker]

I brought power to the containers back in July and used an outdoor 200 amp box. After the roof is on I'll install more outlets and lighting.

 

[EddieWalker]

I attached the ledger board to the containers with 3/8 bolts every 2 feet and the truss rests on top of the 2 X 12. It's all held in place with blocking.

 

[EddieWalker]

I had to stop work due to the weather. It's been seven years since the last real snow fell in this part of East Texas.

 

[AndyM]

We've had an old Preston trailer sitting in the yard at work for a few years now, since Preston Trucking went out of business. I talked my wife into letting me bring it home to use as a shed, but the zoning in our neighborhood is too strict to allow it.

8 feet wide and 20 feet long and a roll up door! It would make an excellent storage building, once you took the wheels and axles off and set it on the ground. The container idea is even better, since it is already at ground level. There's a great deal for the price too.

 

[EddieWalker]

I picked up my metal for the roof. It's going to take 28 squares to cover everything. I'm using R panels with a Galvalume finish. Total for the metal came to $2,316. The roof vent was over $200.

 

[EddieWalker]

Before I put on the roof I've had a change of plans. I figured that if I closed in one side, I could make a nice little cabin out of it. Inside measurements are 37'4" by 10'9".

For sheetrock to work I had to add some more 2x6's to the roof. Now I have 16" centers.