Doing our Thereabouts Texas barn thing

[wroughtn_harv]

We sold the house in the city. Bought 1.6 acres between Denison and Ambrose Texas. That was almost two years ago.

Weæ±*e doing all the work ourselves, 4150 sf slab, 89 cu yards concrete we hired out the pour and finish. I found 2600 ft of 11 1/2 X 3 1/4 fourteen gauge C purlins in assorted lengths, new, $1.00 linear foot.

We winter in Yuma. Be back on it end of March.

Finished it will have an 1100 sf apartment at one end.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

The pour was late July. I welded up some of the purlins into beams. The pitch is 4-12, peak is 23? The east end post is a temporary to be be replaced with built in place truss using current rafters. The apartment will be covered with a hip and ridge roof that starts 3 1/2 beneath the peak.

There are no drawings. This is all about using what is available.

Detailed posts of the journey are on a thread at IRV2 Vintage RVs Life with Jane

Some how I’ve got some tower photos in there, posting has never been my strong point.

Basically my internet is terrible, actually much worse than that. It’s so bad that the first thing we’re going to to when I get home is install these tower components for a line of sight antenna 60’ high. It’s a tilt up designed for wind generator, should work fine.

 

[RNeumann]

Looking good!

 

[MickeyDBC]

Really like the way it is looking. Did you paint the purlins or did they come galvanized?

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Ad showed up on CL for galvanized C purlins for $1.00 pf. I ran over and it was old stock for a company that installs those solar panel covers over parking lots etc. They had bought out a competitor and their stuff didn’t match up so they wanted it out. So I bought some 36’, 27’, 20’ 18’-8”, 18’, 13’, and 10’ pieces. We knew the footprint was 50’ deep (N-S) and 60’ wide (E-W) with 10’ porches on N and E sides. It was all about using the material to make it happen.

I had the material before I laid out the slab so I was able to lay out the piers beneath the columns spaced to accommodate the 18'-8” pieces as purlins between rafters.

All around me are similar dreams, barndominiums. But they all look like Mueller or competitor’s barns with windows and a porch. Ours will have a 3' soffit all around.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

This is one of two loads. If you look close you can see the material wasn稚 broke perfectly. This caused some difficulty with welding up so I regrouped and ended up using a couple of thousand TEK screws to put it together. The biggest advantage of screwing over welding is there is not HAZ problems.

 

[KennyG]

I assume you have no permit or code requirements. That would seem like a fairy tale situation to most of us. :thumbsup:

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I assume you have no permit or code requirements. That would seem like a fairy tale situation to most of us. :thumbsup:

Far from me to rub it in.

The only county inspection is for septic. The property came with a viable septic system, leech lines, so I didn’t need any inspection for that. That’s it. Now if the system was to fail I’m allowed to repair but not replace leech line because aerobic systems are the law of the land for septic now.

I have an engineer friend that I lean on for the math when it comes down to that. For instance the trusses will be overkill. The plates and screws are overkill. As are the 11-1/2” purlins between rafters.

 

[ovrszd]

Nice build. Following.

 

[showcattle]

I've missed Harv's projects. It's good to see a new one.