shingles on a polebarn

[chucko]

no I am not it he already has the trusses and they were designed for a light metal roof then they may not work with shingles. A lot of truss compaies read pole bard as metal roof.

 

[garbageman]

Buckcreek,
I just finished my barn which was 42sqs. My rafters are 24" oc, I used 5/8 douglas fir PW with "H" clips.
Ray

 

[johnday]

Chucko; Now I caught what you meant, you're talking about the weight the truss was designed for. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Around here we use regular trusses that are designed for a 40# roof. Steel roofing is lighter if I'm not mistaken. Up here, most anybody would think the same as I did, but yeah, that is a very valid consideration. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I fell for one of the warnings I usually give when advice is given about building on this website, "remember the advice your getting is regional, check with your building inspector" /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[GregMVT]

This past spring I built a 16x24' sugarhouse. I decided to go with painted steel roof for several reasons. The costs of the plywood/osb and shingles was just about the same as the strapping/painted steel at Home Depot. The plus side of going with steel is I was able to get it completed in a little over a day. Since I did it by myself and I didn't have a tractor at the time shingles/plywood would have taken me about a week to do. Condensation was also an issue at least on the half that I will be using for boiling sap. I didn't want all that steam to condensate on the wood. Another plus was I was able to use a stock length from Home Depot that gave me a 1' overhang on each side and about 2 feet in front and back. I was also able to have a steeper pitched roof so snow accumulation will not be as big an issue as a shingle roof. I don't like shingling on a steep pitched roof!!

 

[Soundguy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( i called lowes and got a quote for shingles and for tin . It was A lot cheaper for shingles. )</font>

By the time you add the plywood for shingles.. I can't see how the tin is more.

Around here, we throw purloins across the trusses, and then throw the tin up.. no board under it. Seems like that would be way cheaper than plywood, tar paper, and shingles.. Course.. if I went with shingles.. it would be archit. type.. not 3 tab. With the hurricanes down here, houses, even new ones with 3 tab shingles lost quite a few shingles.. I didn't see any archit. type shingles die.. unless it was a total roof failure.

Soundguy

Soundguy

 

[Buckcreek]

Soundguy, total cost for 25year shingles and osb board and felt and roofing nails were $650 , price for just the tin was $850, no boards or nails. But i called around and found a metal roofing co. that makes the tin any length you want it and just about any color and there price for Tin ridge cap and screws to put it down with was$678. Thats no boards. A month ago when i started checking prices it was $100 cheaper. and the $678 price was only good for one week. Chucko got me to thinking, so i called the truss co. this morning and asked about roofing and they said they were OK for shingles or tin. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif i never thought about that till i read his reply. im a little slow somtimes /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Robert_in_NY]

OSB does not have the strength of regular plywood. The advantage of OSB is that it lays flat while plywood has a tendency to bow which makes it a slight bit harder to install sometimes. We will not use OSB on roofs unless it is a redeck. When we did our barn roof we used plywood. OSB is great for walls and such but will bow over time on a roof. My grandfathers house was built in 1987 and the OSB bowed to the point you could notice it over 5 years ago. As soon as the shingles are ready to be replaced we are tearing up the OSB and putting plywood on it. I would go with plywood and shingles on a barn as I have and will continue to do so in the future unless someone wants tin.

 

[rambler]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Soundguy, total cost for 25year shingles and osb board and felt and roofing nails were $650 , price for just the tin was $850, no boards or nails. But i called around and found a metal roofing co. that makes the tin any length you want it and just about any color and there price for Tin ridge cap and screws to put it down with was$678. Thats no boards. A month ago when i started checking prices it was $100 cheaper. and the $678 price was only good for one week. Chucko got me to thinking, so i called the truss co. this morning and asked about roofing and they said they were OK for shingles or tin. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif i never thought about that till i read his reply. im a little slow somtimes /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif )</font>


I will never ever put shingles on anything but the house ever again. Hate those things.

I have a grainery sitting here, was built in 1909, original tin. I just had it painted it for the 2nd time in it's life. Only leak is where the ridge tin is lifted, still fill it with grain every year - that _has_ to stay dry!

Most tin roofs last 30 years, you paint them with the alumina paint stuff & they last another 20 years, paint & get another 15-20 years. By then you probably don't care any more...

Asphault shingles seem to last about 20 years 'here' no matter what the garentee says.

Just hate shingling, you could be reshingling that roof 3 times in your life, while the tin will last until you are gone with maybe 1 painting in there somewhere.

Sure hate to see you make that mistake for saving $200 today.....

Shingles hold snow, tin it slides off. You will get much more snow load on shingles.... I'm betting it will sag...

I'd consider selling a kidney before putting asphault shingles up there if it were mine......

Hope you can catch my drift, I have a habit of being kind of subtle sometimes.... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

--->Paul

 

[Buckcreek]

Rambler , i came to about the same conclusion yesterday. when i originally started this barn project i had decided on the red tin, and my dad sounds alot like you. When i get it done im going to put a small shed on the back side of it. My dad told me to use this old tin he has stacked up. It came off of my grandmothers old house , he laughed and said it had worn out two building on this old farm it might as well ware out another one. The tin had been on an old store house my great grandfather had built, when it got old my grandpa, build his first house and used it on it. LOL. The old house got in bad shape a few years ago, and my dad and brother inlaw tore it down and save the tin. I may use it on somthing for sentimental value. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Soundguy]

My dad and his brothers got the demolition contract for a big livestock pavilion / pole barn that was being torn down in our city a couple decades ago. ( it was being replaced with a metal structure.. but it was otherwise ok. ) My dad and his brothers took the old barn down, and then put it back up on my dads propertysame roof tin and all... Got paid to do it too!

Soundguy