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Post-frame barndominium with two-car garage on one side and a large drive-through garage on the other A barndominium , also known as a barndo , is a metal pole barn , post-frame or barn-like structure with sheet metal siding that has been partially or fully converted into a furnished home or living area.
Pole building design was pioneered in the 1930s in the United States originally using utility poles for horse barns and agricultural buildings. The depressed value of agricultural products in the 1920s, and 1930s and the emergence of large, corporate farming in the 1930s, created a demand for larger, cheaper agricultural buildings. [2]
The staggered truss system is a type of structural steel framing used in high-rise buildings.The system consists of a series of story-high trusses spanning the total width between two rows of exterior columns and arranged in a staggered pattern on adjacent column lines. [1]
The completed frame of a modern timber-frame house Ridge-post framing (left) and story framing (right, with jetties) Historically, the timbers would have been hewn square using a felling axe and then surface-finished with a broadaxe. If required, smaller timbers were ripsawn from the hewn baulks using pitsaws or frame saws.
A postcard photograph inside a maison landaise Kliese Housebarn in Emmet, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Built ca. 1850 for Friedrich Kliese, an immigrant from Silesia. A housebarn (also house-barn or house barn) is a building that is a combination of a house and a barn under the same roof.
Wall studs are framing components in timber or steel-framed walls, that run between the top and bottom plates.It is a fundamental element in frame building. The majority non-masonry buildings rely on wall studs, with wood being the most common and least-expensive material used for studs.
T-slot framing is divided into metric and fractional (imperial) categories. The T-slot is always centered along the long-axis of the piece. Pieces are available in each series with a square cross-section. Rectangular cross sections are also available which measure x by 2x (where x is the defined width) - e.g. 40mm by 80mm for 40 series.
Potato barn or potato house– A semi-subterranean or two story building for storage of potatoes or sweet potatoes. Prairie barn – A general term for barns in the Western U.S. Rice barn and the related winnowing barn; Round barn, built in a round shape the term often is generalized to the include polygonal barn and octagonal barn