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Originally Posted by AliceT
Ok. Um. I take it I'm the last to know... So the question that kept hitting me over and over as I looked at your pics has likely been previously discussed. How do you insulate the massive skylighted roof and will that expanse hold the snow load? I ask this because I have been looking at steel buildings for my garage/barn combination and am very interested in using skylights for natural light - as I do in my house.
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I applied one and a half inches of spray-on urethane foam insulation on all walls and ceiling. Then nine inches of fiberglass batting. For a total of R-40.
Before hanging wood paneling and trim.
So far we have ran our chicken incubator in our home,
We have two chicken brooders [4' X 8'] that we have ran in our home in the spring.
And when it has been too cold outdoors and our kids are too small; we have kept them indoors too.
They do a BIG spring auction for lambs and kids, and another one for calves.
Both are March /April, so the babies have not been weaned and it is too cold outside to put them in a barn.
We have not put in the skylights yet, still working on the windows. A lot of big windows.
If I remember the numbers right; code in Penobscot county requires roofs to be designed to withstand a snow load of 80 pounds per square foot. Our building design was done for 120.
Our ceiling to date behind our bathroom looking toward the kitchen.
Then looking to the ceiling over the bathroom.
Then our bathroom vanity.
Then another view of our kitchen ceiling taken from near the front door,
then the ceiling over the pool.
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