New pole barn

[dclynch]

I dont know if you ever heard of Hoffman builders out of Bay City Mi. They are very good and reasonable. Also if you have any Amish up there I would go talk to them they usually do great work and are very reasonable on pricing. I have plans to build a 40x40x14 in the next couple of years. Mark Hoffman just built the same exact one for m brother in law last fall 22,000 complete with cement floor.

 

[jimgerken]

That is a nice looking building, I like it! Conventional stud construction does have a lot of benefit when it comes time to do interior finish. Here is another method I recently used which gives the benefits during interior finishing. Pole construction, with bookshelf girts. With this method, the girts that are usually 2x4 added onto the outside surface of the poles, are instead 2X6 elements, laid horizontal, installed between the poles. So the girts are flush to the outside and inside surfaces. By doing this, they are avialable for screwing the steel siding to the outside, and then later available flush with the inside wall surface to attach wall sheeting to. Other pole building methods require a whole bunch of extra lumber to be added to the inside surface to mount wall sheeting. If placed on the usual 24" vertical center to center distance (as recommended by the vertical steel siding manufacturers, the resulting space is perfect for an off-the shelf fiberglass batt (a batt made for between trusses in the typical attic). When you wait for a sale, these batts are as cheap as insulation gets. Installation of them is really easy: cut to length, pop them in, they stay there.
Of course you would use all the usual methods with this such as: Tyvek exterior, poly layer inside the figerglass and under the wall sheeting. Here are a couple pics...

 

[Knight9]

That is a nice looking building, I like it! Conventional stud construction does have a lot of benefit when it comes time to do interior finish. Here is another method I recently used which gives the benefits during interior finishing. Pole construction, with bookshelf girts. With this method, the girts that are usually 2x4 added onto the outside surface of the poles, are instead 2X6 elements, laid horizontal, installed between the poles. So the girts are flush to the outside and inside surfaces. By doing this, they are avialable for screwing the steel siding to the outside, and then later available flush with the inside wall surface to attach wall sheeting to. Other pole building methods require a whole bunch of extra lumber to be added to the inside surface to mount wall sheeting. If placed on the usual 24" vertical center to center distance (as recommended by the vertical steel siding manufacturers, the resulting space is perfect for an off-the shelf fiberglass batt (a batt made for between trusses in the typical attic). When you wait for a sale, these batts are as cheap as insulation gets. Installation of them is really easy: cut to length, pop them in, they stay there.
Of course you would use all the usual methods with this such as: Tyvek exterior, poly layer inside the figerglass and under the wall sheeting. Here are a couple pics...
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That's a great approach! I'm going to file that away. Seems like the best of both worlds.

 

[jimgerken]

Here are a couple more pics to "file away" to further describe it. I used 4X8 sheets and did not cut them to match the pole spacing, instead running them past and "splicing" as shown. Attachment to poles and girt was done with a 16 gauge by 1.75 inch long construction staple. MAN does the staple pull sheeting to the wall nice! I think its the staple head area that makes it pull stuff tighter than a nail would. The "splices" were held with a large channel lock in one hand while stapling with other hand. And a little construction adhesive was applied to the splices too.