Projects always have some level of unplanned obstacles. The first obstacle to completing the Barn is all on me. I ordered the wrong amount of metal for the siding. Of course, the corrugated galvalume metal siding I have been
using from Metal Sales is manufactured on Mondays, the day my truck leaves the yard in Spokane. Therefore, my order sits until the next week. Thankfully Cassie at Metal Sales was able to pull a few strings and get the order through faster and we will have metal next Tuesday.
The next obstacle has been mother nature. It is harvest season in SE Idaho – potatoes, wheat, barley, mustard and hay. Of course, we have had rain, snow and sleet for the better part of the the last three weeks. We dry out enough to get back to work and we get more precipitation. So our farmer friends are behind, the elevators are dealing with wet grain and we are in the same boat.
We were able to get some siding up on the barn. We also were able to move two 14x14 garage doors from where the Cafe is going to the Barn. That made for a hectic Thursday moving product around to get to the doors and a hectic Friday moving the doors and then building walls to replace the doors. Special thanks to Markfrom Curb Appeal Garage Doors out of Logan, UT for making quick work of the removal and re-installation of the garage doors. Also a special thanks to Jason Ashley and his son, JJ, for helping us get the walls built and sheeted so the store was closed up.
A final thought on the walls to close in the doors: we had to use steel studs and siding to seal up the openings. Idaho code requires that there are no combustible materials within 18″ of a commercial kitchen hood.
No matter how much fire rating there is between the hood and a
wood stud wall, it must be 18″. So, I am not a fan of metal studs. It has been 20 years since I have workedwith metal studs. But we used them anyway and it all went together well without any major issues.
So next week we will finish the siding and flashing on the barn and begin to move product in. Once we are done with that, we will begin a re-set of the entire store. Then the plumbers and electricians will have their ways with the building. Much madness in store…