My Barn Project

[stumpy]

This is about the construction of our barn. We decided build the barn/shop first before building the house. The idea was to have plenty of space to store all our stuff so we can move to there full time sooner.

The size of the barn is 36x48 with a 16x48 2nd floor loft. I did the design and the drawings myself to pull a county permit. The key emplasis was simple to build. Notice all the dimensions are multiples of 4. It can be build with standard dimension lumber with almost no cutting required with very little waste. The roof and ceiling joists are pre-made trusses.

Here's a google view of the top half of my land. We got 120 acres in the sierra foothills near Yosemite National Park.


View of barn site before. Looking down from my water well on top. We chose this location because we wanted a gravity feed water system with the well and water tank located about 100ft above the home site.


Digging the foundation footing... Future home site is on the left where the trailer and tent currently located.


Pouring the concrete foundation.


Start framing...


View of 1st floor wall framed...


A couple pictures of the inside framing...



A few pictures of the almost completed barn...






View of the barn site after it was built....


Not completely done yet..... We'll continue this spring when things dries out a little. This is a very wet year. It has been raining almost every other week. We got about twice as much rain as 3RRL's area.

[bracabric]

Love your Barn, reminds me of Harrison Ford's film when he was with the Amish people, there are many people here living in far smaller and much poorer quality houses out in the country. Can you send some of your excess water down here please? we are having the driest year for 60 years!!

Dick

[3RRL]

Thanks for sharing Tom.
I love that classic style barn.
How much living space is up there?

[biggkidd]

Man oh man

That sure is one nice barn. Wish my house was that nice. Keep the pics coming. We love them. When do you plan to build your house? Things are looking great.

KIDD

[red]

Love the barn. Shame on all the rain slowing things down. -Ed

[linus69]

That is one beautiful building, a very nice job.

Paul

[bradblazer]

Sweet barn. It's been 10 years since I visited Yosemite. That's beautiful country out there.
120 acres!

[stumpy]

3rrl said:

Thanks for sharing Tom.
I love that classic style barn.
How much living space is up there?

It will be 16'x48' = 768 sqft and a 192 sqft deck.

Tom

[stumpy]

Not much progress for the last 2 months. Here's the latest on my barn project....

Inspection failed! .

Last month when we were there, the inspector didn't show up. This time, he showed up and failed the inspection for the following reasons.

- The framing didn't match with the plan. Why? Instead of using 2x12's lumber for floor joist indicated on the plan, I substitude with engineered I-joist. I called the building dept prior to the substitution and they said it was OK and it's common practice. The last inspector had no problem with it when he passed the sheeting and sheer inspection. However, this particular inspector wants the plan updated with the change before even willing to look at it.
- Same problem. Need plan update becase of switching 2x6 roof rafter with trusses. I need to provide them with truss calc.
- I need to have 2% slope drainage around the barn. So, we quickly fix that with the dozer.
- You wouldn't believe this one! I didn't finish painting??? The area above the french door in front was too high for me to reach with my paint sprayer and I don't have a tall enough ladder to reach over the door. I left it out until we build the deck (which still waiting for a permit....). The inspector failed me because there was exposed wood under the roof overhang. I have to at least prime it. What a pain....

[red]

Yea prime the building or prime the inspector? Next inspector will be singing " I'm dreaming of a White Christmas" I especially love when the code condicts itself and you get two different inspectors with different opinions. Good Luck -Ed

[quikduk]

Remember the golden rule of inspectors...

The "code" is open to "interpretation".

BTW, "interpretation" is indirectly influenced by a variety of factors including work personnel conflicts, money troubles, weather, moon phase, time-of-the-month (NOT the date), getting/not getting "some" recently/ever, etc...

You get the picture?

[FlyHiFlyLo]

That inspector sounds like a real fucking prick!

[linus69]

I`m with Scott on that, he sounds like a typical low level, low life government hack. He is probably looking for a political donation from you. The BTK serial killer was a code enforcement officer too.
The majority I have met were power abusing crooked scumbags looking for a smear, it`s usually just easier to pay the palm tariff to get rid of them. They can nickel and dime you to death otherwise.