I’m not sure If I ever mentioned this, I bought a near 200 yr old barn in Western PA and hired a West Virginia contractor to take it down and reconstruct it on my property. At first this was intended to be a flip, make a buck selling it because no way I wanted our Real Estate taxes to go up, but since I beat that with now being legally titled farm. My time slot became available from mid 2019 and they will repackage what can be salvaged so the architect knows what can be used. Shipping is early November and hopefully late next April the contractor will start. I’m doing my own foundation and the contractor built in 15 pages of performance penalties and verbiage covering his butt should it not be 100% correct by April 17th.
The property was caught up in probate with one remaining relative holding out. A lawyer pushed it along with a little extra in the deal so late today the word was delivered.
It‘s a German Dutch open bay 44 ft high, 88‘ X 166’ standing seam steel roof, I plan on making one end a bank access. They should get 18 - 12”X10” Black Walnut beams and 42- 10”X10” piers also in BW. Our deal is that I am trading some very rare beams for company labor. Side wall planks 240 - 10”, 12” and 14” wide (so we think), are Chestnut and over 400 random width oak flooring, many over 18 ft long. I don’t have the final composition of woods just yet. The cross-bridging Timbers have a great deal of damage. The first course of timber around the perimeter and used like sole plates sitting on the limestone foundation are all rubbish.
We are planning the rebuild to be as a residential structure with limited partitions inside. We have the sizable beams with useable pegged and mortise supports. I’ll get photos late next week when I get out there.
The property was caught up in probate with one remaining relative holding out. A lawyer pushed it along with a little extra in the deal so late today the word was delivered.
It‘s a German Dutch open bay 44 ft high, 88‘ X 166’ standing seam steel roof, I plan on making one end a bank access. They should get 18 - 12”X10” Black Walnut beams and 42- 10”X10” piers also in BW. Our deal is that I am trading some very rare beams for company labor. Side wall planks 240 - 10”, 12” and 14” wide (so we think), are Chestnut and over 400 random width oak flooring, many over 18 ft long. I don’t have the final composition of woods just yet. The cross-bridging Timbers have a great deal of damage. The first course of timber around the perimeter and used like sole plates sitting on the limestone foundation are all rubbish.
We are planning the rebuild to be as a residential structure with limited partitions inside. We have the sizable beams with useable pegged and mortise supports. I’ll get photos late next week when I get out there.
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