Woodworking Shop Planning Part III
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/28/2012If you didn’t read the last two days’ blogs, Part I and II of a three part series on how to design a woodworking shop, I’d advise you to back up a day or two and read them. To finish up on how to best design your woodworking shop… Design your building with adequate electric […]
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- Tags: Shop Heating, Shop Lighting, Shop Safety
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Woodworking Shops Part II
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/27/2012If you didn’t read yesterday’s blog, Part I of a three part series on woodworking shops, I’d advise you to back up a day and read it, as it’s the “start” in terms of figuring out how to design your new shop. To continue… Think in terms of “workflow.” Can some of the infeed/outfeed spaces […]
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Designing a Woodworking Shop
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/26/2012A popular use for many of our pole buildings is for woodworking. Bob, one of our Building Designers, suggested some hints as to how to set up a woodworking shop might be a good idea for a blog. Some of our clients have the space and budget to be able to construct elaborate workspaces in […]
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- Tags: Cabinet Shop, Craft Shop, Machine Shop, Shops
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Pole Building Construction Advantages: Audience Participation
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/25/2012For those of you who have ever taken a DiSC profile, you will understand when I tell you I am a high “I” personality. We high “I” people, we love a show – I love magicians. I don’t know how they do it, but I love the show. I will watch them over and over […]
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- Tags: Pole Barn Comparisons, Pole Building Advantages, Truss Spacings
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Interior Walls
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/22/2012We get frequent requests from clients to not only design interior non-structural stud walls, but to also provide the materials for these walls. In a word – no. But why not? From a design standpoint, the most likely walls to be moved around are interior ones. Chances are good where the walls are planned, and […]
Read moreWindows: Fill Them up with Gas!
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/21/2012Recently I wrote a blog post about Low-E windows. So Mrs. Guru, being an inquiring soul, read it, and wanted to know if our windows were gas filled. Why would anyone want to fill the space between panes of window glass to begin with? Well, as air transfers heat quickly, specific gases are used between […]
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- Tags: Argon Filled Windows; Krypton Filled Windows, Low-E Windows
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Builder Grade
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/20/2012I’m a member of several discussion groups on LinkedIn. For those of you who are unfamiliar, LinkedIn is a business-oriented social site, used mainly for professional networking. One of the discussion groups is titled simply as “Builder”. A recent posting for discussion was, “What can be done to change the negative image builders get when […]
Read moreCool Roofs
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/19/2012I’m not talking about roofs that look “cool”. Cool roofs are the roofs which deliver both high solar reflectance and thermal emittance. Solar reflectance is the ability to reflect the visible, infrared and ultraviolet wave lengths of the sun, reducing heat transfer to the building. Thermal emittance is the ability to radiate absorbed, or non-reflected solar energy. […]
Read moreFibonacci does Gambrel Pole Buildings
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/18/2012Any time my readers get to thinking I have linked every possible subject beyond reason to pole buildings; I try to one up myself. Which brings us to Fibonacci…. Leonardo Fibonacci was an Italian mathematician who lived from about 1170 to 1250. He is best known for a number sequence named the Fibonacci numbers, which […]
Read morePole Building Kits: A Pat on the Back
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/15/2012If there is one thing I have learned in three decades plus of providing pole building kits, it is this – the hardest people to please, are builders. This pat on the back, from a builder, was so good we felt the need to share the bruises we have from it. Rachel, our most senior […]
Read moreSliding Doors: Can You Put an Opener On Them?
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/14/2012In the past three plus decades I’ve literally sold tens, if not hundreds of thousands of sliding doors as well as steel sectional overhead doors. At Hansen Pole Buildings, we get hundreds of new inquiries every day – many of these are for people who are requesting sliding “barn” style doors, for the most part […]
Read moreDo you Need a Pole Building Bolt Stretcher?
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/13/2012One of our clients is currently constructing his Hansen Pole Buildings kit package, in Colorado. Colorado is one of those unusual geographic locales in the United States where the availability of any pressure treated timbers larger than a 6×6 is pretty much….not at all. It IS possible to get glu-laminated columns, however. In this particular […]
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- Tags: Glu-laminated Posts, Glulam Columns
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Shear Walls
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/12/2012Shear walls are designed to resist lateral forces, such as wind or seismic, and transfer these forces to the component below them, which might be other shear walls, floors, foundation walls, slabs, footings or embedded columns. Shear walls prevent the roof or upper floors from swaying or moving off their supports as well. Buildings with […]
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- Tags: Uplift Forces, Wind Forces, Engineered Building
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Pole Barn Protection with a Rat Wall
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/11/2012Several months ago one of our clients posed an interesting question to us. Her building site was to be in a small township in Michigan. When she contacted her Building Department, in regards to building, she was told all buildings required a concrete wall around the perimeter. She was concerned about the cost involved in […]
Read morePole Barn Lumber: Southern Pine Updates
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/08/2012Southern Pine lumber has been popular since Colonial times for a wide variety of applications. Favorable growing conditions, wise forest management, and efficient manufacturing ensure a continuous supply of high-quality Southern Pine products for future generations. Southern Pine consists of four main species — shortleaf, longleaf, loblolly, and slash — and has been the preferred […]
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- Tags: Lumber Grading, Pole Barn Lumber, Pole Building Lumber, Southern Yellow Pine
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Termites in Your Pole Barn
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/07/2012Even the best of pressure preservative treatment chemicals are not going to entirely eliminate the possibility of termite infestations. No, the termites are probably not going to touch the pressure treated materials, but usually building owners are unwilling to invest in all pressure treated wood for their pole buildings. So, what to do with the […]
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- Tags: Termite Infestation, Termite Treatment, Termites In Lumber, Pole Building Termites
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Stall Barns: Your Head? What About Your Horse?
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/06/2012If I had a nickel for every request for quote we have received for horse stalls barns with 8’ eave heights, I could not only buy a horse, I could pay to feed it! According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), a horse can be up to eight feet tall when standing on […]
Read moreLow E Windows
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/05/2012Being a Seattle Mariners fan (yes I know it is a scary concept), my first real introduction to Low e, was then Seattle Mariners (now Texas Rangers) relief pitcher Mark Lowe. OK, not so funny, but it does illustrate how little most people know or understand about low e windows. Traditionally most post frame buildings […]
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- Tags: Low Emissivity Windows, Low U-factor, Glass Coatings
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ACQ Treated Lumber
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/04/2012Pressure-treated lumber has been available for about 60 years. Most original formulas centered on arsenic as the main preservative, to help lumber withstand the extremes of outdoor use. While over time small amounts of chemicals from treatments such as CCA may have leached out of the treated timbers, a 2004 report in Wood and Fibre […]
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- Tags: CCA Treated Lumber, Treated Lumber, Treated Posts
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Pole Building Construction Using Steel Tubing
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 06/01/2012Nearly three decades ago, we were looking at markets to expand our thriving post frame building kit package business into. Having then shipped buildings from the Willamette Valley of Oregon into Arizona and Colorado, Texas did not feel like it would be much of a leap. In doing research, it appeared the number one competition […]
Read moreCedar or Redwood Posts for Pole Buildings?
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 05/31/2012More than once (especially in California), it has been suggested by lumber yards to use cedar or redwood posts for pole buildings, rather than pressure preservative treated wood of other species. The lumber yard sales people are of the belief the cedar or redwood posts should have adequate natural resistance to decay to last the […]
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- Tags: Wood Decay, Cedar Columns, Rotting Redwood Columns
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Paddle Block Demise: Day Two
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 05/30/2012Yesterday’s blog gave credit (good or bad) to Mr. Sales and Martha, his “paddle”. There is more to the story on paddle blocks. Besides the obvious problem of splitting a paddle block with numerous nails, there are some other issues caused by the use of these blocks. Pole building eave height is the measure from […]
Read morePaddle Blocks
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 05/29/2012When I was in junior high school, our P.E. teacher, “Chic” Sales had the largest tennis shoe any of us had ever seen on the wall in his office. Now this tennis shoe had a life of its own, and was named Martha. Act out in class and it was your turn to bend over, […]
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- Tags: Purlin Blocks, Truss Blocking
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Skirt Board or Splash Plank Cover Up!
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 05/28/2012Guest blog Recently we had a client I will call Zelda, who was “up in arms” about her Dutch Doors “not fitting” after her barn was completed. She insisted they were not framed in correctly, and she was now in a panic wondering what she was going to do. Zelda insisted the doors were going […]
Read moreThe Grandparents Pole Barn: Leaky Ridge Caps
Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 05/25/2012Justine is one of the Project Coordinator’s at Hansen Pole Buildings. Earlier this week, she emailed me this: The pole barn we have at our farm (obviously built by my bf’s grandparents) has issues. When it snows or rain it leaks along the ridge from one end to the other. Needless to say I have […]
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