Shed Siding

We are using T1-11 yellow pine 5/8" tongue and groove siding on the sides of this cool down shed. It is easy to work with and should hold up well with a good metal roof. Below are before stages.

The cost will be about $200 and the wood comes from Home Depot.

Replacing Rafters

We used 2" X 6" Douglas Fir 8' boards to replace the rafters in the cool down shed. A 2' plywood template was styled and cut to secure boards meeting at the peak, with screws.

Our roof here has a 2" over 12" pitch, so we will use Ideal Roofing's pocket rib metal sheets with "High Temp Titanium Synthetic Roofing Underlayment" over the 4-ply plywood sheets. The cost will be about $1,000 with a life of over 40 yrs. while a rolled asphalt roof for low pitches would be about $1200 with a life of 12 yrs. or more.

The Outbuildings

There are four outbuildings along with a cool down shed on Christian's farm, and several were in desperate need of roof repairs when he bought this farm. We immediately re-roofed the large horse barn ourselves, tarped the stone smoke house roof, and recently hired roofers for the garage barn. This building will have a Canadian "Ideal Pocket Ribbed Roof" ($2.35 sq. ft.) with Titanium Underlayment on plywood, lasting 50 yrs.

First several rafters and fascia boards will be replaced. Later some wall boards will be repaired as well. The proportions and roof pitch of this structure seem just right to me.

Finished. The roof took one day for Christian, Alex and Bill to install with an insulated ridge cap.

  

The small animal barn roof was missing a cupola from the 18th century part and we added one to the newer horse stalls connected to it.

Below are the horse barn roof we replaced with a metal roof after removing the old plywood and asphalt one, and a team of 10 men re-roofing the garage barn with repaired plywood and high definition asphalt shingles.

Finished...

Polo Match June 9

The Hunterdon Polo Classic this June 9th in Pittstown NJ, will again donate funds to the Toshiko Takaezu Studio Project where Bill fires his clay work. My favorite parts of this event are the prepared field the size of ten football fields bordered by farm lands, the gorgeous horses & hounds besides the charitable nature of this event. Tickets are $35.

Christian's farm can keep seven horses in two barns where a previous owner bred stallions. What a marvelous woman she must be for what he has inherited. (Photo credits: Russel G. Kowal and the Hunterdon Polo Classic facebook)