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Wednesday morning: Rain. While it rained Robert and I ran into town to pick up some screws for the perlins and new bolts for the cross braces. In taking the one side loose of the cross brace to remove the bow, the bolts had to be hammered out because of the stress on them. This messed up the threads. New ones would have to go back in.
We decided that we would screw the perlins to the trusses instead of nailing after seeing how easy it was for the perlin to move around with a nail in it. These trusses are designed with little "cups" that the perlins sit in with predrilled holes so that a nail can go into the perlins securing it to the truss. With nails however, it would have been difficult to walk on the perlins without them wiggling loose from the nails and coming loose from the "cup". Not sure if that makes sense but at anyrate, I'd recommend screws if you have a couple of drills. The screws pulled them up tight to the "cups" that the perlins sat in. It took about as much time and was a lot safer and probably more secure. I liked it a lot better! The rain stopped about 11 so we were back out shortly thereafter and got the perlins up!
We started the perlins on one end flush with the end of the building, but by the time we reached the other end, most of them were about 1 - 4" short of being flush with the other end (if you look close enough in the picture, you'll see what I am talking about). Again, not exactly perfect in measurement, but hey, I've only built a dog house before! This would be a problem when time came to nail a facia board up for the metal to be screwed to, so we had to measure and make small pieces of 2"x6" to nail into the ends of the perlins. This would help when it came time to nail the facia board up to the perlins on the end...got to have something to nail into. This was a little time consuming but worked well enough. Uncle Jim is throwing a piece up to me in this picture.
It's really beginning to look like a building now!!!
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Thursday morning: We got out pretty early this morning. Most of the rain has moved out. We wanted to try and get the roof on today. This was probably one of the parts of the contruction I was dreading the most. It was damp outside and that metal is slick! I decided when I ordered material that I'd get insulation to roll on top of the roof. This would go under the metal and on top of the wood, keeping the condensation down inside the barn. The insulation wasn't cheap, but I think it will be worth it. We would lay the insulation down one strip at a time, lay a panel on top, and drill. Robert and I took turns drilling the panels down while the guys below handed the pannels to us and helped with the insulation. We made a jig that one of us would hold on the perlin at the right spot and the driller could put the screw in the three holes. They "should" go right in the perlin. I think we only missed about 5 or 6 holes on the whole roof.
Thursday: 10 oclock. Where'd everybody go??!!
Thursday: Here comes the sun. About 12:30 we finished the roof! Glad this was a job over and done. The cloudy morning, even though damp, was actually a blessing. As soon as the sun started coming out the light was really bright reflecting off the insulation and panels. Those dark green panels got warm in a hurry too. Finished just in time!!! We also put the ridge cap on top. It came in 3, 10' 6" sections. That gave room for plenty of overlap for a 30' roofline.
Time to take a break and recharge the batteries!!!!!
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