Carport Barn

[SheepGirl]

It was supposed to be delivered last tuesday. However they never showed up. My mom had taken off work tues and both of my parents took off the next day so that we could do the siding. My dad called five times to the place to figure out what had happened, because they never even called us on tuesday. So after 5 calls on wednesday they called us back and said they would deliver it next time they were in the area, in the next 10 to 14 days. However its been almost 2 weeks and we havent heard anything back. She did say they will give us conpensation for the inconvenience.

My parents are very frustrated to say the least.

As far as putting the siding on, my mom said we're going to put 2x4s horizontally abd screw them to the metal posts (I cant remember the type of screw though) and then attach the t111 siding to it that way. But when talking to my uncle this past weekend, he said it wouldnt work because the siding and 2x4s would stick out farther than the roof overhang? He works with garage doors and carports and that stuff so maybe hes right. We'll find out once it finally gets delivered and we can work on it.

 

[BrownSheep]

I would more than just frustrated.

 

[Southern by choice]

If you got the boxed eave you should have enough room, if you got the regular roof (rolled around to the outside and comes down a foot) then I don't know how you would seal it.
Did you get the vertical roof or the regular roof?

 

[OneFineAcre]

@OneFineAcre I LOVE the picture of that barn. We have been tossing around barn ideas too and we were going to start with a carport and then we decided to do stick built because of the cost. BUT we are renting scaffolding when we do the rafters and the roof; not as young as we used to be and ladder work is literally a pain. But looking at that barn picture... I really like that siding, very classy.

I live in CA and in what they call a "wild land fire interface area" so any buildings we build to code have to have either cement board siding or metal. While I am not getting a permit for the barn there is still wisdom in that for those of us that live in a fire prone area. (pretty much all of CA) But the wood siding is so "barnish"...I like it...a lot.

Do the cement board and paint it "barn red" with just a plain galvanized roof. That will look plenty "barnish".

 

[OneFineAcre]

It was supposed to be delivered last tuesday. However they never showed up. My mom had taken off work tues and both of my parents took off the next day so that we could do the siding. My dad called five times to the place to figure out what had happened, because they never even called us on tuesday. So after 5 calls on wednesday they called us back and said they would deliver it next time they were in the area, in the next 10 to 14 days. However its been almost 2 weeks and we havent heard anything back. She did say they will give us conpensation for the inconvenience.

My parents are very frustrated to say the least.

As far as putting the siding on, my mom said we're going to put 2x4s horizontally abd screw them to the metal posts (I cant remember the type of screw though) and then attach the t111 siding to it that way. But when talking to my uncle this past weekend, he said it wouldnt work because the siding and 2x4s would stick out farther than the roof overhang? He works with garage doors and carports and that stuff so maybe hes right. We'll find out once it finally gets delivered and we can work on it.

I think your uncle is correct, depending upon the roof detail. If it's like the one in the picture I posted, then yes it is a problem.
That's why I wanted to see what you do.

 

[babsbag]

We have closed in a carport like this already for a shop and what we did is attach 2x4s to the sides of the legs and then horizontal 2x4s that sat on the vertical 2x4s right at the bottom of the roof and then attached the siding to those. It did mean that there were no nails on the very edge of the siding if a seam happened to land on a metal leg but we were using the cement siding so didn't have to worry about any warping. It actually worked really well and it kept the siding inside the drip line of the roof.

Still debating on new barn if it will be metal or cement board, price is about the same but the metal I don't have to paint. Whatever it is pretty sure it will be red.

 

[SheepGirl]

It is the vertical roofing. My mom didn't like the wrap around roof and she didn't want the roof panels to go horizontally on an A-frame. This is exactly what we got-- http://www.carport.com/index.php?bid=203208vbkooo4nclhclhbk-0000000000000000000000000000-0|0

Except the roof won't be as flat as in the image, it will be taller. But I'm not sure how big the overhang will be on it? As long as it's at least 2-3" we should be good.

The cement board looks nice. But my mom is already set on getting the wood panels and painting them white to match the other three buildings plus the chicken house lol. This is our chicken house we built in June/July. (sorry for so many pictures of this chicken house, I know y'all are picture junkies haha) Honestly, this was all that I wanted for my chickens... http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/how-to-build-a-4-x-4-x-8-brood-pen -- but my parents took the project into their own hands and decided they wanted to do this...So I think I will give these five pullets I bought and raised to my parents and they can have them with their house and I will just get my own production flock of Leghorns and Moyer's brown egg layers and have them in my new carport barn lol. So based on this I think the carport barn will look pretty nifty.

Side view

My mom painted windows on the sides of the building.

Front

Ramp/inside. Wire floor was my idea. I didn't want to buy or clean out bedding. The birds don't mind. They sleep on it every night. They could go to the feed shack where there is hay on the floor (that's actually where they've been nesting) but they like their house.

And a chicken picture, just 'cause. I used zip ties to ID my birds, red, yellow, green, black, and white. I have to replace them about every 2 months or so because they break or the colors fade/get dirty and I like looking at the brighter colors.

 

[Southern by choice]

These are MD prices but check out how more cost efficient it is to go to a 24 wide... the 24x36 is what we thought about... vertical boxed roof with 8-9 ft legs...
http://www.carolinametalcarports.com/northern_pricing.html

I have use the zip ties along with my NPIP bands to identify age, and breeding groups for my chickens for years. It works great... some have up to 4 bands. lol

 

[SheepGirl]

Carport.com/Elephant Structures/Carolina Carports say the delivery is on the 5th. Lets see if they actually show up this time. Such a shame that it took them a month to reschedule our delivery they had a no call no show for.

 

[SheepGirl]

This is what I posted onto the company's facebook page... they had it deleted by the next day. They never even messaged me or commented on it addressing my concerns or apologizing nor did they call us.