Installing A Metal Roof (On Our DIY House Build)

[@danschmitz4699]

Liked the one sock and one bare foot moves.

[@PootsPastures]

50% traction all the time!

[@tlnn6598]

My wife & I built our own barn house a few years ago. Too bad she didn’t have the courage to work on the roof. But she was a BIG help in the overall construction. Inside walls, flooring, electrical, tiling, painting…(Her brother was our master plumber) Super nice watching these videos! 👍👍

[@PootsPastures]

Glad you're enjoying them! My wife's been a huge help too, it's not easy work and she's learned a lot, I'm really proud of her. Hopefully you're enjoying your house. We are just now getting to some of the finishing touches (baseboards, closets etc) and it feels really nice to be getting to the finish line! I can't wait until we're completely done.

[@zacharykaczanowski8164]

Nice work!. Where did you order those color roof panels?

[@PootsPastures]

We got them from our local home depot, any lumber yard should be able to order them for you.

[@suenorton873]

The roof looks great. Cant believe the 2 of ya were up there with no shoes... Merry Christmas 🎅

[@PootsPastures]

Thanks! And our shoes were so dirty we didn't want to scratch the panels and socks were too slippery as you could imagine! But bare feet had great grip!! Merry Christmas to you as well!!

[@olprospector7153]

Always enjoy the videos. I have seen some use a peel and stick foam seal strip that matches the corrugated metal. Did you use anything like that? Thoughts? Also, do you have any good resources you recommend for single slope, shed-style roof standard practices / installation guide?

[@PootsPastures]

The reason we didn't use those is so we got the airflow underneath, those would have completely blocked the air. And I don't know one resource necessarily. The build show with Matt risinger has some good videos, but you can build them just like you build any other roof the only difference is you only have the one slope. In our roof framing videos I talk about why we chose to do some of the things we did (like the Ijoists) But if you have specific questions let me know and I can try to answer them the best I can!

[@squeekhobby4571]

Excellent work. Any trick in drilling hole for the air vent? How did you do it precisely?

[@PootsPastures]

So I measured from the bottom of the roof up to the middle of the air vent, then I knew that where the panels over lap the top edge of that corragation is in the same spot so I measured from that point over to the middle of the vent. Then transfered those measurements to the panel. Drilled the hole about half inch bigger. The trick would be to put somthing under the panel so you don't drill through your roof, and make sure your hole saw cuts metal. Otherwase just hang on for the ride lol!

[@KhalidAli-lb2lc]

Vary nice job thank you so much

[@PootsPastures]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

[@robertbarrett7238]

Great video, as always.

[@PootsPastures]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mashoutman]

Been meaning to ask who designed your new logo? Looks good. Thanks for sharing.

[@PootsPastures]

We got it done on 99designs. Its a website where you set a price and then different designers pitch to you, and you work with the ones you like to refine it before choosing the final design. It worked awesome, you can do anything from logos to websites on it!! And we're really happy with it too!

[@mashoutman]

@@PootsPastures awesome thanks.

[@dunep6465]

Hold nails between your fingers like a cigarette. This will save your hands and knuckles. Hitting the palm side of your fingers with a hammer will not hurt. I assume you live in a dry climate, but none-the-less, the underside of the panels will create moisture. Hopefully your plan for the system to drain will work for you. Might want to watch for bugs getting in there.

[@PootsPastures]

The same principle for why you vent an attic applies here. Condensation will build up if warm air comes in contact with a cold surface, the outside air is allowed to move underneath the panel which allows several things. It allows any water underneath the panels to dry, it also keeps the air underneath the panel the same temperature as the air above so there won't be warm air coming into contact with the cool surface, because the air under is also cool. I hope that makes sense. There could be an argument for having a bigger gap, which wouldn't hurt, but there is some literature that suggests as little as 1/16 of an inch is enough space to have a positive effect.