I want to build a flat cover 12×12 to keep the fire wood dry and keep the riding lawnmower under cover. place (4) 4×4 in ground, two at 8.5 feet tall and two at 8 feet, a little slope. run a 2×6 around all four side with lag bolts. The roof will be cheap tin, no load, no snow, just leaves from a overhanging tree. I will loose it in a hurricane so cheap tin.
my question, can I use 2×4 12 foot long, every 2 feet for (rafter, purlin, joist) or do I need 2×6. remember it be less than couple pounds per sq ft load.
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What kind of 2x4? #1 Doug fir or #3 Dryrot Pussywillow & Btr.?
The "#3 Dryrot Pussywillow" sounds interesting!!!!
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Run 2x6 48" OC and screw metal to them. Pick ones with a nice crown. That would be only 6 total.
KK
Edited 11/17/2009 9:34 pm by coonass
In hurricane country wouldn't you want a screw in the metal more than 48" O.C.? I would probably go with the 2x4 rafters but run 1x4 purlins 24" O.C.
David,I will never screw metal to 1x4, not enough bite for the screws and they unscrew themselves. Don't know how or why they unscrew. 48 in the field about 16 all around the edges.KK
Hmmmm. Metal roofing screwed to either 1x purlins or 5/8" plywood is totally standard around here. Acres of it... square miles of it... pretty much every barn and probably half the houses.
this is just something cheap to keep the rain off the lawnmower. I know I will lose it in high winds.No load factor at all
I was thinking (oh, oh) that whatever you did (seems like you could have a cross member in the middle and use 2x4's resting at ends and middle far enough apart to support the edges and maybe the middle of each sheet of the metal roofing) you could use hinges and just flip the roof down to rest vertically along the front wall in the event of a hurricane--have some latches to keep it there. If roof is too wide, you could maybe have it like two (slightly overlapping in center) "doors" that would flip down for hurricanes.
that really a good idea
I really don't like your "I'll lose it to the wind" assumption.
Just what do you think causes all that hurricaine damage? It's not the wind, as much as all the stuff the wind is carrying with it - and here you are, giving her ammunition!
If you're going to insist on building something flimsy, use a tarp; at least that won't kill somebody as it sails down the road. Or, 'go native' and learn to make a thatch roof.
Otherwise, I'm sure there are plenty of local resources to guide you in making something to survive the storm.
I'll lose it to the wind" we lose everything,not much choice. beside I build 99% better than anybody here. I live in a concrete house, beside every post I ask is about hurricane proof
don't the tires on the roof make it hurricane proof? I mean, I see that alot in Alabama...Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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my wifes[then gf] first house had a couple dozen tires on the roof.didn't know if it was for wind or a redneck way to store your tires.
too bad i didnt keep em,surely could of gotten a few miles out of them.the older i get ,
the more people tick me off
just make it easier to roll the trailer back over
I tend to agree w/ Reno a bit. Technically such a structure requires a permit ... where you would have to make it 'hurricane proof', right? If you don't permit it and someone gets killed by your ramshackle construction, then what? Are you buying some liability? Why not just tarp the woodpile and forget the structure?
Just a point of view ... and not being critical ... I may find myself doing it the same way you were proposing, but there is that point of view. Is it valid? Only you might really know as most of us aren't privvy to the local site specifics.