The windows will be vertically flush mounted to the exterior walls windows. For the outside, I will need a good sheet metal guy to fab the radius horizontal drip edges that will cover from the window seals to the curved metal siding. Then I’m thinkin of lag/bolt wood frames to channel & attach windows to the wooden frames. Then barrow works plasma cutter to cut the openings in. On the windows and doors, what I’m getting ready to do soon is, Frame welding 2”x2” 3/16 L channels around the openings, I have a roll bender at work so I can make the horizontal 18’ radius pieces easily enough. I bet the places that sell them new still rent them.
#Grain silo house interior full
The bins were smaller than yours but it might be an option for someone else, as you just need a straight vertical lift not a full crane. I remember we used to rent a sort of 'crane'.it just towed behind the truck and had a big hand winch. When I was a kid on the farm I helped build a bunch of these. You are going to frame in a light ceiling and insulate above it? (the polystyrene 'earth bags' couldn't be structural which is why I wanted to use some grain bin rings in the 's too cold where i live for just earthbag and scoria is expensive) You're spray foam solution is a lot simpler and less work.maybe i could be won over to the aesthetics, it wasn't what i wanted to start out. Then I worried about moisture migrating through the interior of the cob and degrading the bin wall.any thoughts?
I thought the inside of the ring could be covered with a layer of cob and plaster. The plan was for a different roof with bigger eaves anyway, so the plaster would be protected. It would be earth bermed substantially on it's north face. I have a source of clean recycled polystyrene for insulation which i was going to stack around the exterior in bags, earthbag style.tied to the metal wall and plastered over, so it would look like an earthbag building. I was going to skip the basement and set it on an insulated earthbag foundation. I've been thinking of a single story version. Have you sorted out the details of framing your windows and door openings yet? Welding up the frames and bolting them in? How are you cutting the openings? The main floor & upper level will be open cellulose spray foam. I am going to use a closed cell spay foam. This way I can get the thermo barrier between. I plane on studing the inside walls 1 inch off the metal walls. The floor joist will span from I beam to metal bracket hangers welded on the steel walls & have the studded walls under them to support them as well. They will make the full span in the middle, mounted on 6” square tube legs. I picked up some massive I beams from the scrap yard. after i got 5 rings up with Jacks, I had to crane pick it from the upper level and over the septic.
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Maybe a more experienced installer would have been fine with it but I sure waz not. Yes the poured walls made it very dangerous! I will attach some more picks. What do you have in mind for that ? Will a wooden interior stud wall be built around the peremiter ?
There is a spray on cellulose product that might work to insulate. You know,the whole 1000 words thing.ĭale Hodgins wrote:Am I correct in assuming that the height of the concrete wall made it impossible to find the right jacks that are made for slab mounted buildings ? Did you ever consider using a scizzor lift or buying an old crane ? Old Hi-Ab trucks are often available for $5000 or so and would be worth just as much at the end of the build. With thousands of us looking at them we're bound to think of new possibilities based on what we see. If I get one I will be checking on your progress quite a bit.ĭrop in some of your photos. With consolidation, particularly with dairy here, and with gentrification near the city, I expect to see quite a bit of stuff like this available for little or nothing. I've been searching out silos and other farm structures. There's another guy on YouTube with a video called, "How to build a grain bin in one minute." That seem unreasonably fast. Unique, frugal, re-cycled and super durable. This is a bragging rights project if I've ever seen one. But just think of it as an opertunity to brag a little. I'm sure we'll pepper you with quite a few more questions before you're done. How many machine hours for bobcat and crane ? - What did that cost ?ĭo a lot of these come available in your area ? How many man hours do you think went into the dismantling - and how many to get it up again, just the shell leaving aside finishing components to make it into a home? Had this structure become obsolete for the original use ? I'm a demolition guy, so just a few questions about the process.
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