leeinmemphis
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Hey everyone,
I recently purchased a small farm that had an open type barn on it. We took a dozer and managed to get all the manure/hay/garbage out of it and got it back down to clean dirt. I am thinking about having a slab poured on the inner three bays and leaving the outer bay on each end open to put equipment under roof but not inside the building. I am thinking about pouring the slab 4" wider than the poles and framing/building exterior walls and tieing into the existing poles/roof trusses. Then in the center bay I would put two garage overhead doors on each end and then on the other two bays I would put overhead doors on one end. This would allow me to keep most of my equipment/trailers inside an enclosed building. As it sits now the barn is mostly open and under roof but isn't enclosed/secure at all.
I know the barn looks rough from the outside but the interior is in excellent shape and I think it is probably worth trying to save/fix up. I would strip off all the exterior siding/metal and re-do it to match whatever I put up.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/leeinmemphis/barn.jpg
Basically I guess what I'm asking is do you guys think that this is worth trying to do or would I be better off to just burn this building down and put a metal building in it's place? I would think that I could probably save a considerable amount of money by doing it this way. Plus I can pretty much do all of this work myself and if I were to build a new building I would have to hire it out or hire some people to help me with it........well I can do it all except pour the concrete. I'll probably ask someone to help/do this for me. I am currently missing a couple pieces of tin on the roof but am likely just to replace the missing parts and then maybe in a year or two I'll replace the roof when it needs it. Any advice/tips would be appreciated.
I recently purchased a small farm that had an open type barn on it. We took a dozer and managed to get all the manure/hay/garbage out of it and got it back down to clean dirt. I am thinking about having a slab poured on the inner three bays and leaving the outer bay on each end open to put equipment under roof but not inside the building. I am thinking about pouring the slab 4" wider than the poles and framing/building exterior walls and tieing into the existing poles/roof trusses. Then in the center bay I would put two garage overhead doors on each end and then on the other two bays I would put overhead doors on one end. This would allow me to keep most of my equipment/trailers inside an enclosed building. As it sits now the barn is mostly open and under roof but isn't enclosed/secure at all.
I know the barn looks rough from the outside but the interior is in excellent shape and I think it is probably worth trying to save/fix up. I would strip off all the exterior siding/metal and re-do it to match whatever I put up.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/leeinmemphis/barn.jpg
Basically I guess what I'm asking is do you guys think that this is worth trying to do or would I be better off to just burn this building down and put a metal building in it's place? I would think that I could probably save a considerable amount of money by doing it this way. Plus I can pretty much do all of this work myself and if I were to build a new building I would have to hire it out or hire some people to help me with it........well I can do it all except pour the concrete. I'll probably ask someone to help/do this for me. I am currently missing a couple pieces of tin on the roof but am likely just to replace the missing parts and then maybe in a year or two I'll replace the roof when it needs it. Any advice/tips would be appreciated.
