ROOF DECKING

After all the work I did to get the barn supports augmented, build the second floor and staircase, dig out the dirt and rocks, remove the milking floor, rebuild the girts with scarf joints, and put the rafters up, the decking seems both anticlimactic and ultra-modern. It is the latter but not the former. It only took four hours to install, and I was not surprised that very little lined up as in new construction, but it was very satisfying and I'm going to take a few days off from the thing. As to the not lining up, I knew this was likely and the doubled-up rafters took care of that. The original rafters were just a tad off their supposed twenty-four inch centers. They say they don't build 'em like they used to. I have news for you. They NEVER built 'em like they used to.

Left over from the house roof, the Zip-System decking has an annealed coating of plastic and the tape seals the joints tight. I'll be putting the 5-V metal on in the next week or so, but now I gotta rest.