Posted by Paul in MN on February 15, 2010 at 09:37:35 from (71.210.151.163):
In Reply to: Bad News and Good News posted by James Howell on February 14, 2010 at 21:02:06:
Sorry for your loss, but as you already know, in the big picture of things this is just an irritation.
When I built my barn/shed in 1980 I had to have an engineer's certification that it would stand snowload of at least 50#/sq ft. Further away from the metro area, barns are permitted to be built for 30#/sq ft. And this winter quite a number of them have failed, some with dairy cattle in them. All the engineering seems to be "static load" with the load spread evenly across the roof. The wind and weather of a particular storm do not obey the even loading rules. And once a single structural member fails, the rest is just like dominos going down.
I generally build to the "brick outhouse building code", but our snow/ice load was so great this winter that I put in temporary load supports (poles) is suspected overload spots. I don't know if they made a difference, but I did have better peace of mind. And my son and I shoveled off deeper than above my knee-cap snow and ice. My guess was more than 40#/sq ft we were shoveling. We moved a lot of tons of snow/ice. Our main barn is 40' X 85'. The roof's skylight panels were and are still sagging, nearing collapse.
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