Dude,I bought a 20x30' Morgan barn style building. Reason for the barn style was so I could put in a top deck for storage.
Paid $4500 for it and its on huge skids so it can be moved if needed.

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Posted by dreaux

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Posted on 10/2/12 at 12:07 am to meauxjeaux2

I wish I had 4,500$

All of our liquid assets are basically tied up, reason being we are moving into a new house. Everything is perfect except it lacks a storage shed or in my case, a shop. I have a family owned business and have got just about all my materials that were just laying around. About 500ft #8 wire, tons or romex, several rolls of insulation, all the shingles (slate architect) and floor decking, about 40 2x4's, 15 or so 2x6's, door, window, 2x12 support beams (each 22' long), several sticks of conduit, bags of framing and roofing nails, bag of 3 1/2" screws, brad nails, several spools #12 wire, all the switches, receptacles, lights etc. some of the wood sheeting for the roof, deadbolts and doorknobs air cond window unit. Really all I will need to buy is Hardi pannel for outside, some strip molding, some more 2x4's and some 2x6's, hurricane clps for rafters and Sheetrock if I decide to rock it, but that could wait. I could get it done for about 500$

New question. I see some people are putting rim list on top of the support beam and making the whole box above the support beam. It's still okay to run the floor joist inside the support beams like I planned right?

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Posted by BFIV

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Posted on 10/2/12 at 8:08 am to dreaux

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What kind of wood could I use on the outside walls that looks good, will paint well, and weather resistant.

I don't know what kind of exterior "look" you prefer or can build (depending on your neighborhood). If you want a rustic look or you don't have to match the architecture of your house or neighborhood homes, you can board and batten the exterior walls with poplar. Poplar is insect and weather resistant IF you keep it from touching the ground. And poplar is cheap. Another wood option for the exterior is hemlock. Although it is more expensive than poplar, it is insect resistant, very durable, and can be stained and painted, too. I've got one 75 year old barn with poplar on the exterior. The boring bees have never touched it and neither have termites. And we have hemlock on the outside of our house. Insects and boring bees leave it alone! Anything built out of pine and exposed to the elements will be short lived.

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