I have a customer who needs me to do something I’ve not done before. They have an old shed-roof barn that houses chickens. Very old barn, much of the wood siding has deteriorated to where it requires either replacing with wood or another product. It was suggested to the owner to replace it with the metal siding, the kind used on pole barns. I’ve never installed this kind of product before and do not know how to install it and how difficult it would be to install it for that matter. I’m not sure I can do the project now as I don’t like to install something I have not attempted to work with before.
My questions are: How is it installed, is it easy to work with, how do yoiu install it around windows (I have to replace 4 windows to be larger ones), I assume it comes in colors, etc….. Anyone know of anything on the net I can look at to give me a primer on how it’s installed and so forth? Anything that would help me assess if this is a project I should be able to do. I’ve done all other kinds of siding.
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Willie, look up fabral roofing.com, can't get my cut and paste to work right.
forgot to tell you, steal siding is very easy to apply.
Edited 8/25/2008 7:53 pm ET by frammer52
I'd say if you are familiar with other kinds of siding you'd have very little trouble with this vertical steel siding. The only trouble we had was managing such long pieces (on frequently windy days) and scaffolding the end walls (the gable was a little over 50' high).
I used steel vertical siding, same stuff you see on just about every barn you pass, this past winter. It was a very old barn that housed various farm animals and much of the wood had rotted and some of it (pieces here and there) had fallen off. The siding we used came from Menards.
It came in a few different colors and lengths but only a limited selection was in stock. We predrilled the pieces and started our screws on the bench. We didn't at first but installing this stuff off ladders and having no screws started proved to be a pretty difficult task for us. It also allowed us to have some nice screw lines when it was all done.
We went around the windows with the siding and then caulked. The window was flashed like any other window. I'm almost certain they make a channel for the sides of windows but we didn't use it. Most of our pieces were 14' long but the gable ends had pieces that were well over that. In those cases we overlapped the siding.
That's basically what we did. Neither myself nor my partner had ever touched this stuff prior to this job either. It went well. I'll post a couple pictures later tonight if I have time.
Hope some of this helped a bit.
Tom
Thanks. Pics would be nice if you get a chance to post some.If at first you don't succeed, try using a hammer next time...everything needs some extra persuasion from time to time. -ME
Willie
Try this
http://www.mcelroymetal.com/elements/files/MM815.pdf
Rich