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Question about roofing
I am thinking of building apole barn garage and thought it might be
nice to immitate my roof line of my house since the building will be next to it. It is a 10/12 pitch. The barn will be 32 feet. How can I come up with a ridgeboard that length? I know I will have to somehow tie several shorter lengths together but what is the best way to do this? |
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wrote in message oups.com... I am thinking of building apole barn garage and thought it might be nice to immitate my roof line of my house since the building will be next to it. It is a 10/12 pitch. The barn will be 32 feet. How can I come up with a ridgeboard that length? I know I will have to somehow tie several shorter lengths together but what is the best way to do this? Stryped, if you've done your collar beams and collar ties properly, the ridge board doesn't hold _anything_ up -- it's just a nailing surface for your rafters. The ridge board _is_held_up_ by the rafters. Therefore, it's easy to get a ridge board that long... just splice shorter boards between the rafters, using a full-width lam. of 2x lumber on each side, and about one nail every four inches of span (in both directions) across the splice. Don't forget to drop your lam plates down on the ridge far enough to give clearance for the roofing or purlins. LLoyd |
So the rafters go on first? Looks like this may be harder to do by
myself than pre made trusses. I was thinking you put the ridgebord up first then the rafters to that. |
wrote in message oups.com... So the rafters go on first? Looks like this may be harder to do by myself than pre made trusses. I was thinking you put the ridgebord up first then the rafters to that. You're making those troll noises again, Stryped. Put up the ridge board first, on temporary supports. Nail the rafters to it, and anchor them to the collar beams (using metal strap anchors). Add the collar ties. Add temporary diagonal bracing across the rafters. Remove the temporary ridge supports. The rafters will hold up the ridge. The collar ties will prevent the walls from spreading. The diagonals will prevent your whole roof structure from laying over flat in a wind. You don't seem to get much from text-only descriptions. Instead, why don't you buy one of those nifty little books they sell at Home Depot and Lowes... there's one on building pole barns, and it's got lots of really pretty-colored pictures in it for the functionally illiterate. LLoyd |
Rent a sky hook at the local rental yard....very handy to have....for holdin gup ridge boards, hoisting up bundles of shingles etc...... On 27 Jun 2005 05:52:51 -0700, wrote: ===So the rafters go on first? Looks like this may be harder to do by ===myself than pre made trusses. I was thinking you put the ridgebord up ===first then the rafters to that. ============================================== Put some color in your cheeks...garden naked! "The original frugal ponder" ~~~~ }((((o ~~~~~~ }{{{{o ~~~~~~~ }(((((o |
~Roy~ wrote:
Rent a sky hook at the local rental yard....very handy to have....for holdin gup ridge boards, hoisting up bundles of shingles etc...... That's one of the real handy tools, but there's a long waiting list at most places so you might want to reserve it. John |
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:03:33 GMT, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
scribed: Jesus, LLoyd why are you such a ****. The guy was just asking for some help. If your such a ****ing roofing genius, go over and do it for him, and then get paid. I'm sure it would be gone soon as hit the pub...****** wrote in message roups.com... So the rafters go on first? Looks like this may be harder to do by myself than pre made trusses. I was thinking you put the ridgebord up first then the rafters to that. You're making those troll noises again, Stryped. Put up the ridge board first, on temporary supports. Nail the rafters to it, and anchor them to the collar beams (using metal strap anchors). Add the collar ties. Add temporary diagonal bracing across the rafters. Remove the temporary ridge supports. The rafters will hold up the ridge. The collar ties will prevent the walls from spreading. The diagonals will prevent your whole roof structure from laying over flat in a wind. You don't seem to get much from text-only descriptions. Instead, why don't you buy one of those nifty little books they sell at Home Depot and Lowes... there's one on building pole barns, and it's got lots of really pretty-colored pictures in it for the functionally illiterate. LLoyd |
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I am thinking of building apole barn garage and thought it might be nice to immitate my roof line of my house since the building will be next to it. It is a 10/12 pitch. The barn will be 32 feet. How can I come up with a ridgeboard that length? I know I will have to somehow tie several shorter lengths together but what is the best way to do this? Use a LAM board - a laminated board - they make them to several hundred feet. Martin -- Martin Eastburn @ home at Lion's Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH, NRA Life NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
We have built two small barns at my church using laminated beams.
The first was only 20' long which we lifted into place with many hands and ladders. The second was 30' long, so we rented duct lifts to pick up the beam and set it into the notches in the end walls. These units are fairly heavy and require several folks to carry them. On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:17:19 -0500, "lionslair at consolidated dot net" "lionslair at consolidated dot net" wrote: wrote: I am thinking of building apole barn garage and thought it might be nice to immitate my roof line of my house since the building will be next to it. It is a 10/12 pitch. The barn will be 32 feet. How can I come up with a ridgeboard that length? I know I will have to somehow tie several shorter lengths together but what is the best way to do this? Use a LAM board - a laminated board - they make them to several hundred feet. Martin |
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