Update/maintain shop building.

[TnAndy]

Original shop built 1983. 24x36. 8' ceiling downstairs, storage loft overhead.

By 1995, had outgrown it, so tore most of it down, added 50' to the slab floor and built new building. 14' ceiling in the main part with 1/2 the original loft of the old building left in the back end with couple room under.

By this year, the wood siding on the lower side that faces south/east was getting in pretty bad shape, plus the gutter (which shouldn't have put on that lower side) had backed up over the years and water ran behind it rotting some siding and sheathing, so work was definitely needed. As I tore off the old siding (found forks on tractor are GREAT for this), and some of the bad diagonal sheathing, I found mice had been able to enter from the foundation thru gaps in the sheathing....and had destroyed the insulation.

So ALL the sheathing came off, new insulation installed and used plywood for the new sheathing making a tight seal I hope mice can't get into. Followed by new poplar lap siding, with vertical metal down on the far end (30') because I have a solar project in mind there for later.

After looking at blue/gray stained siding for 25 years, the red is going to be a change, for sure...but I finished the last of painting it this morning.

Next is a series of raised beds on the lower side, and a small "house" to blow my sawdust/shavings into so they will stay dry and we can use them as bedding in the chicken house.

 

[EddieWalker]

Really like the red paint. What did you use for a vapor barrier over the plywood?

 

[deezler]

Very nice! You're always up to cool projects down there in TN, thanks for sharing.

 

[Big Barn]

What an improvement and awesome facelift! Nice work.

 

[TnAndy]

Really like the red paint. What did you use for a vapor barrier over the plywood?

30# felt. That is all I use anymore after a lousy experience with Tyvek......I don't trust any of the new building papers. Paint is oil base. The new siding I primed and primed the backside as well before installing, then a coat of finish on top. Rest of it got two coats. Took 40 gallons. LOVE that airless Graco sprayer !

 

[EddieWalker]

30 pound felt is tried and proven!!! I've seen enough different brands of house wrap to understand what you are saying. Some are rally bad, others are pretty good. I'm now a firm believer the ZIP System is the gold standard and everything else is compared to how close they can get to what ZIP System does. Some of the trade magazines that I read are suggesting that the new polymer paints are going to be the next best thing. Instead of wrapping the OSB or plywood, you paint on the polymer paint to make it totally water and wind proof. Then put your exterior siding up over the polymer paint.

I'm really looking forward to what you do with your sawdust collection building. I think it's pure genius how you ran a vent under your foundation to collect the dust.

 

[TnAndy]

I can believe the polymer paint would be a good concept. My dry kiln I ran OSB for the inside of the walls, and coated floor/walls/ceiling with a couple coats of aluminized mobile home roof coating for a vapor barrier....seems like it has worked quite well over the years.

Neighbor built a house recently and used the ZIP stuff....seemed pretty good. First time I'd seen it up close. It rained on his roof sheathing several times before he got the roof on, and had almost no leaks. Guess that tape works, huh ?

 

[TnAndy]

Very nice! You're always up to cool projects down there in TN, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for looking.

 

[TnAndy]

Want an improvement and awesome facelift! Nice work.

Thanks, it was needing it unfortunately.

 

[s219]

Nice work!!