What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

VT looked like it got widespread rain today. We need an all day soaker in New England.

 

Hoping for more to head this way.

 

Just had a storm move thru an hour ago. In 15 minutes it dropped just over half inch of rain. We had strong winds with it and I had to go out when it was done raining to get the garbage and recycle bins upright again.
Made a batch of strawberry jam this morning. I will be going to the range tomorrow for some bang bang time.

 

I can buy metal roofing way cheaper than shingles and paper.

The local place here sells the scratch and dent stuff for $1/ft. This is not that cheap 2 ft wide barn tin, this is the same 3ft 5 rib panels or whatever they are people out on their house.
I bought all the metal, two ridge caps and a bag of screws for less than $200 for my 12x16 woodshed

 

Hardwood floor is 100% done tonight. On to trim now.

 

Horkn , Menards has new on sale for around $0.77/sq ft. right now...
https://www.menards.com/main/buildi...el/emeraldgreen1557691-42/p-1444448587549.htm

 

Wish there was one in north east great price!!

 

Yup, can't beat 'em...once Menards came to town I hardly step foot in bLowes or HD anymore...better selection, better prices, better service.

 

Nice...

 

At least we are in the summer heat that spurs the intense pop up thunderstorms. Those should help I hope. I see several in the 10 day forecast.

 

That's what I use on the sheds too.

 

That's almost double the price I said. I didn't do the math out per linear foot but that is the regular price if not more??? Tin is usually at least around here sold by the linear foot.

 

That piece of tin in the dent pile (my whole shed roof you would have to look hard to find the flaws) would cost $16. Regular price on it would be around $25! Those (meynards) are similar to Lowe's prices on metal.

 

23 bucks for a 3'x10' long roof piece would be about $300 for my 30' long wood shed, not including the special screws and the caps to connect the panels. If I can do better than that, great. If not, that's fine.

 

A blind man visits Texas. When he gets to his hotel room, he feels the bed. “Wow, this bed is big!”
“Everything is big in Texas,” says the bellhop.
The man heads downstairs to the bar, settles into a huge barstool and orders a beer. A mug is placed between his hands. “Wow these drinks are big!”
The bartender replies: “Everything is big in Texas”.
After downing a few, the blind man asks where the bathroom is. “Second door to the right,” says the bartender.
The blind man heads for the bathroom but accidentally enters the third door, which leads to the swimming pool, and he falls in. Popping his head up from under the water and flailing his arms, he shouts: “Don’t flush, don’t flush!”

 

Yea if you don't have anything local that makes or distributes it then you have to go with what you have.

As cheap or more than shingles and goes up faster

 

I have put these up here before. This is my free shed that had many leaky spots in the cheap 40 year old aluminum roof. I just wanted to go all new with it and not try to patch it up just to leak later down the road. Get a good cover on it and it will last for many more decades. This is the new scratch and dent metal roofing I bought.

 

Nice roof. Looks good, and you said the price was right. Up north, we have to have a considerable pitch or there is no way it will survive the winter snow load. Every winter, you can see roofs that have not survived the winter due to poor support and wet heavy loads that went unattended to. The metal roof is the most popular roof in heavy snow areas because with the right pitch, the snow will slide off before the roofs collapse under the weight.

 

Yea I can see that. I didn't design this roof. This was a premade shed and it came like this. One year we had a heavy wet 6" or so of snow and it didn't collapse in my neighbor's yard. It's kind of under a tree in his yard, I didn't pay attention to what snow it had on it then though. But it also has several hundred more pounds of metal, wood and screws with this new roof so it's already a bit more preloaded.

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