Spencer's Pole Barn Project

[Spencer]

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I am going to have a 4 foot sidewalk around the complete perimeter of the barn. I was hoping to get the sidewalk finished before winter, but it did not happen.

Here a picture of part of the sidewalk that I did get finished. Once the sidewalk was done on the front and side of the barn I was able to cover up all of my sand with crushed asphalt as you can see in the picture. I can't wait until I get every last inch of sand covered up.

By the way this picture was taken on September 30th.

 

[Spencer]

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Things got pretty busy for me this summer and fall. I have been traveling around the country installing commercial food service equipment (mostly Taco Bells) for the last 16 years. My wife and daughter were fed up with my constant absence so I put in my 10-week notice. I am self-employed, but I did not want to leave my customers hanging. I ended up working about 14 weeks instead of 10, but then I had to hang it up. I have been working on the barn as much as possible since around Thanksgiving. My younger brother was in town for the holiday and he gave me a hand for a few days. He helped me hang all of my F-channel for the rest of the soffit as well as giving me a hand figuring out how much steel to order for the siding.

Here is a picture of the completed soffit on the front of the barn.

 

[Spencer]

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Here is the soffit on the side of the barn.

 

[Spencer]

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I will have three overhead doors on the front of the barn and one overhead door on the side. The jerk who designed this barn (me), left each door opening 9" wider than it needed to be. I don't remember why I did that, I probably just didn't know exactly what size to make them so I made sure they were oversized.

Anyway, I had to add a lot of lumber to frame up these door jambs and headers.

In this picture you can see that I added 5 2x6's to the side of the existing 4x6. I then added two more 2x6's to both the inside and the outside face of this column to finish it off. I had to do this to six different columns. I went through a lot of lumber and a lot of nails, but I got it done.

 

[Spencer]

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Here is a picture of the overhead door opening on the side of the barn while I was framing it in.

 

[Spencer]

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Here is a picture from inside the shop looking outside of that same side entrance. You can see that I also got the plywood on the ceiling in this area.

I wanted to the plywood up before my overhead doors got installed. I didn't want to have to try and piece it in around the garage door railings after the fact.

 

[Spencer]

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This picture is from inside the barn looking out towards the front where the three overhead doors will be. I also got the plywood up in this area before they showed up to install my new doors.

 

[Spencer]

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I was out there until almost 10 pm on Tuesday trying to get enough plywood up before my garage door guys showed up on Wednesday morning.

Here is the first door panel being installed.

 

[Spencer]

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Panel #2 (from the outside).

 

[Spencer]

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Two of the three front doors are up in this picture.