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 02-10-2017, 11:10 Post: 33984
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Nice job Paul. I'm curious how long it took you to finish it.
As for the subject of post rotting, due to the heavy clay soil here and its affinity for holding water, I decided to put a french drain around my building. I did that first, before anything else other than marking the rough outline of the building. I used the backhoe and dug a trench around the outer perimeter, then put in 4" perforated pipe and a foot or so of 2B stone. I put landscaping fabric over the stone and back filled it. The drain runs out downhill to daylight. It is similar to the one around my house, and in the three years+ since we built, there hasn't been a drop of water in the basement. I hope to eventually pour the floor of the pole barn, and hopefully, the french drain will minimize any water problems there. I'm hoping it also has the effect of reducing the amount of water exposure that the 4 X 6 treated posts are subject to. The treated stuff is supposed to be good for 30 years, so if I can extend that another 5-10, I probably won't care by the time the posts have rotted off.






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 02-11-2017, 21:31 Post: 34086
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Tom, First let me say that I hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable holiday. Then onto your question of joining the two different roofs: IMHO, I would think that other than the times when the two are in the same relative position as when built, the floating structure would either be lifting against or pulling down on the fixed (pole) roof. It would seem to me that the up and down motion would tend to separate the two, leading to a problem with water running under the top roof and into your new building.
Could you put them next to each other, and set the new roof so that the eaves run at a 90 degree angle to the old building? They could be built in close proximinty that way and eliminate the roof and drainage overlap problem.






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