To: bartermn AT epix.net, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Solo building methods
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 09:40:15 -0700
Cheapest and easiest for one man, or "How I built my barn," Pole
building, no doubt about it. Rough-cut 2x lumber spiked to treated posts
with board and batt siding, cut rafters, steel roofing over 1x boards.
I am not sold on treated posts. I recently moved a bell post, a
four-by-four CCA post embedded about thirty inches into the ground.
It had been in the ground for about twelve years. It was rotten. As I
recall, CCA was sold on the promise of 30-year life. CCA has of
course been outlawed. The treated posts now being sold in my area are
not guaranteed.
My current project is a pole barn sheathed and roofed with metal. To
avoid treated posts, I will pour a reinforced grade beam with anchor
bolts, bolt a plate to that and secure untreated posts to the plate.