A couple of inexpensive ceiling fans will help push the heat back down to even out the heat distribution in the space. Thanks for sharing your experiences!
I did blown in insulation, but have a traditional wood frame house. I'd advise against it as ur gonna have that in an already insulated area. also if u have to get up there for maintenance or anything, big pain to sweep away and then fluff back up. Maybe do some closed cell foam boards. r-value of 6 per inch I do believe. maybe to layers up there, plus ur already insulated steel building. which not sure the r-value. but combined might be good. I can't wait to build a barndo.
Totally agree, I don't think I'm going to do any additional insulation because we are much better off having everything sealed up now. Our energy bill has been amazing and low this year which is awesome. Thanks for commenting and that foam e board is a great idea too
Yea definitely there are ways to do it, and the doors came with a weatherstripping kit that I still haven't figured out how to install. It does have a bottom seal.
I found it on the web R values of drywall 1/2 Drywall R 0.45 5/8 Drywall R 0.56 So yes it's minimal, about 1/2 an R value. But the reason to always use 5/8's is more for fire safety and for sound dampening. By the time you lug the 1/2" home you might as well have done the 5/8's. In my metal building I'm planning to do at least 5/8's.. maybe two sheets of 5/8's between the workshop area and the home. This gives you a very safe firewall. Imagine worse case scenario.. a fire is burning in the working open area and everyone is asleep and no one hears an alarm. You'd want that wall to be extremely resilient to fire. The sound dampening aspect is also important if someone's sleeping and someone else is working in the open area. You can use "Green Glue" sound dampener between layers of drywall to help with sound dampening. It works quite well.
That's awesome, it definitely helps with sound dampening. I'm going to be putting it in the firewall for sure Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have to grab some of that green glue
Hey Thanks for all yer info! Do you think spray foaming the ceiling and just leaving the cheaper insulation on walls would help keep condensation to a minimum? Just in the planning stages here, thanks again!
Also quick note, I am sure a highly skilled professional could do a better job than I did, it was my first time tho and I bet there are some people who could make it work without issues
We did it ourselves but I have found local area Facebook buy sell trade groups are super good sources to get referrals on work. For our land we found it in craigslist it was a FSBO
@@homesteadingbarndo Without prying too much what made you choose that area of Idaho? Is there some attraction? Did you want to be close to Washington or the reservation?
I liked being far enough away from civilization, close to a small town, surrounded by beautiful wilderness for fishing hunting and hiking, awesome people who are kind, self sufficient and capable around and a county that has no building permits and is called the freest county in the US.
@@homesteadingbarndo woahhh Waaa?? No building permits? Holy cow. I didn't know even such a place existed in the US. That's friggin amazing. Okay now it makes sense why you moved there. haha. You can do whatever you want. No HOA, no CCR's. I'm guessing you can do commercial business on your property as well. That is really slick!! Freedom is the sexiest thing on the planet.
We paid 35k for our 5 acres and here's a cost breakdown for the barndo to the point of building inside: th-cam.com/video/pfoq-IYr3SE/w-d-xo.html I probably have another 110 into the rest so probably close to 270 or so all together
@@homesteadingbarndo Well that sounds like a steal. Consider my shoes for a second period my lot is a little over 200000 for 1 acre. I'm 20 minit's outside a city of 30k. Pole barn cost about 500000. Its 36x80, 2 story. I don't think you can complain too much about cost. I think you did a great job at being economical. But How do you like northern Idaho? Are you in the American redoubt? Seems like a cool movement. However I'm not looking to go that far North if I head into Idaho to find a place.
@@77Avadon77 that's pricey! I'm about an hour and a half away from a city of 30k . Not complaining on my land price, definitely got a deal! Hoping to scoop up the 11 acres next door too. I haven't heard of that, I say north but I'm more north central bout 3 hrs South of Couer dlaine
@@homesteadingbarndo Cour De Laine is pretty bourgeoise at this point. I think you'll be glad you didn't end up there. And the further north you go the more crazy the cold gets. I think you did good. Wife and I looked at Christmas Valley, Oregon. That's about 1:30 back to bend. A little far, unless you reallllly wanna get away from it all. We'd ideally like to be 45 to an hour from a city like redmond or bend. But I guess we'll see. We're moving out of a rural HOA (Yes they're horrible, anti-American, regimes. Would never do it again) and looking to find something actually in the country.
@@raytaylor372 we have been living in it, agreed windows are definitely nice and we planned for them here's what we did in our planning of windows th-cam.com/video/PZytD8u8S1w/w-d-xo.html
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A couple of inexpensive ceiling fans will help push the heat back down to even out the heat distribution in the space. Thanks for sharing your experiences!
That's a great idea!
I did blown in insulation, but have a traditional wood frame house. I'd advise against it as ur gonna have that in an already insulated area. also if u have to get up there for maintenance or anything, big pain to sweep away and then fluff back up. Maybe do some closed cell foam boards. r-value of 6 per inch I do believe. maybe to layers up there, plus ur already insulated steel building. which not sure the r-value. but combined might be good.
I can't wait to build a barndo.
Totally agree, I don't think I'm going to do any additional insulation because we are much better off having everything sealed up now. Our energy bill has been amazing and low this year which is awesome. Thanks for commenting and that foam e board is a great idea too
How are you able to seal around the garage door? Side and bottom?
Yea definitely there are ways to do it, and the doors came with a weatherstripping kit that I still haven't figured out how to install. It does have a bottom seal.
I found it on the web
R values of drywall
1/2 Drywall R 0.45
5/8 Drywall R 0.56
So yes it's minimal, about 1/2 an R value. But the reason to always use 5/8's is more for fire safety and for sound dampening. By the time you lug the 1/2" home you might as well have done the 5/8's. In my metal building I'm planning to do at least 5/8's.. maybe two sheets of 5/8's between the workshop area and the home. This gives you a very safe firewall. Imagine worse case scenario.. a fire is burning in the working open area and everyone is asleep and no one hears an alarm. You'd want that wall to be extremely resilient to fire. The sound dampening aspect is also important if someone's sleeping and someone else is working in the open area. You can use "Green Glue" sound dampener between layers of drywall to help with sound dampening. It works quite well.
That's awesome, it definitely helps with sound dampening. I'm going to be putting it in the firewall for sure
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have to grab some of that green glue
Hey Thanks for all yer info! Do you think spray foaming the ceiling and just leaving the cheaper insulation on walls would help keep condensation to a minimum? Just in the planning stages here, thanks again!
Yea that would do a good job. Don't seem to have issues with the walls, likely the hot air rising up to the ceiling was the big issues
Also quick note, I am sure a highly skilled professional could do a better job than I did, it was my first time tho and I bet there are some people who could make it work without issues
@@homesteadingbarndo thanks!
We're on the south east part of idaho and want to look into a barndo, who did you go through for the frame? Land ?
We did it ourselves but I have found local area Facebook buy sell trade groups are super good sources to get referrals on work. For our land we found it in craigslist it was a FSBO
I'm going to be doing a similar Barndo in West Texas soon - Good Information to have. Keep up the great content. New Sub!
Thanks! That's awesome what size are you going with? Let me know if you have any questions
Who did you go through for the barndo frame?
We used Star State steel, Linda is the owner and she is awesome. Here's her email if you want to reach out lmichieli@starstatesteel.com
@@homesteadingbarndo thanks so much
May I ask what part of northern Idaho you settled on?
We are not too far away from Lewiston
@@homesteadingbarndo Thank you for replying.
@@homesteadingbarndo Without prying too much what made you choose that area of Idaho? Is there some attraction? Did you want to be close to Washington or the reservation?
I liked being far enough away from civilization, close to a small town, surrounded by beautiful wilderness for fishing hunting and hiking, awesome people who are kind, self sufficient and capable around and a county that has no building permits and is called the freest county in the US.
@@homesteadingbarndo woahhh Waaa?? No building permits? Holy cow. I didn't know even such a place existed in the US. That's friggin amazing. Okay now it makes sense why you moved there. haha. You can do whatever you want. No HOA, no CCR's. I'm guessing you can do commercial business on your property as well. That is really slick!! Freedom is the sexiest thing on the planet.
What was your total with the bar do and property you bought
We paid 35k for our 5 acres and here's a cost breakdown for the barndo to the point of building inside: th-cam.com/video/pfoq-IYr3SE/w-d-xo.html
I probably have another 110 into the rest so probably close to 270 or so all together
@@homesteadingbarndo Well that sounds like a steal. Consider my shoes for a second period my lot is a little over 200000 for 1 acre. I'm 20 minit's outside a city of 30k. Pole barn cost about 500000. Its 36x80, 2 story.
I don't think you can complain too much about cost. I think you did a great job at being economical. But How do you like northern Idaho? Are you in the American redoubt? Seems like a cool movement. However I'm not looking to go that far North if I head into Idaho to find a place.
@@77Avadon77 that's pricey! I'm about an hour and a half away from a city of 30k . Not complaining on my land price, definitely got a deal! Hoping to scoop up the 11 acres next door too.
I haven't heard of that, I say north but I'm more north central bout 3 hrs South of Couer dlaine
@@homesteadingbarndo Cour De Laine is pretty bourgeoise at this point. I think you'll be glad you didn't end up there. And the further north you go the more crazy the cold gets. I think you did good.
Wife and I looked at Christmas Valley, Oregon. That's about 1:30 back to bend. A little far, unless you reallllly wanna get away from it all. We'd ideally like to be 45 to an hour from a city like redmond or bend. But I guess we'll see. We're moving out of a rural HOA (Yes they're horrible, anti-American, regimes. Would never do it again) and looking to find something actually in the country.
I seem to have missed the PURPOSE of this "barndo."
What do you mean?
This Barndo is our house, we choose steel for a few reasons
@@homesteadingbarndo You're going to LIVE in that thing??? Seems like it would be kinda nice to have WINDOWS, wouldn't it?
@@raytaylor372 we have been living in it, agreed windows are definitely nice and we planned for them here's what we did in our planning of windows th-cam.com/video/PZytD8u8S1w/w-d-xo.html