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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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?



One method is to use a double ridge board (two wide). If you use 8' lumber,
start one side 4' from the front end of the other.


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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?

Butt the pieces together. The ridge is an alignment piece and doesn't
do any real work. Some people butt them together between the opposed
pair of rafters, others butt them in between pairs of rafters and use a
piece of blocking to tie them together.

R

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?


Just splice it with a short piece of the same width of lumber. If
you're worried about the splice being in the way of a rafter, put it on
with screws and then adjust it after your rafters reach that area of the
ridgeboard.

Gary Brady

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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?

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.

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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.


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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...******





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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

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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