Posted by  JWmHarmon on February 27, 2002 at 08:20:38:

In Reply to:  Re: Midwest Farm Style posted by Paul Malo on February 27, 2002 at 06:34:29:

Having spent my childhood on a dairy farm, I was pleased to see this interpretation of the barn form. The upper level random cedar boards are also reminders of the temporary gates and pens sometimes built inside and outside of the barn structure. They also remind us of the skip-spacing between the roof boards on metal roofs. They also remind us of the manger (feeding troughs) for hay.

The use of insulated panels, finished on both sides with galvanized steel, gives us a glimpse of what is possible with housing and other buildings. SYPs (Structural Insulated Panels) can be made with any covering on either side. Houses could be built of modular panels already finished on both sides. Many of the current SYPs use OSB (oriented strand board). The use of OSB requires an additional step of interior finish and exterior siding.

How about designing SYPs in convenient bolt together sizes that can be handled by one person. They could be manufactured in a variety of block sizes like ashlar stone. This is similar to the Lustron house ideas of the 1950's. Does anyone know if this is already being done, or should I start a new business?

Installing galvanized roofing was one of my first jobs as a six or seven year old child. I had learned how to nail on the skip sheating boards that had been cut from the wood lot on our farm. I was then able to hammer the lead grommeted roofing nails. The lead would squash down to weather seal the nail hole on the ridges of the galvanized roofing.

There is nothing that compares to the sound of a summer thundershower on a "tin" roof. Hail storms were like being inside a snare drum that was inside a bass drum. Being a barn, the roof was not insulated as is the farm museum building with it's insulated panels.

In the winter when my father said it was warm in the barn, he meant that it was a degree or two above freezing, which was much better than 15 degrees Fahrenheit below zero outside with a twenty mile per hour wind blowing drifting snow across the flat land of northwestern Ohio.

Brrrr!!!!

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