My Favorite Trim | The Solo Barndo Build | The Cedar | Ep 12

[@emilechap8573]

Thanks for the videos,your teaching,pro tips ,and your hard work.I learn something on all your videos. Love how you build . You do good work. Thx Marshall. 💪👍👍

[@codygillespie]

No one ever goes into detail on the ground/house connection on these barndos, so thanks for showing what you do. What your doing looks clean and would be easy to do also so i like that. Not completely thrilled with it that as a long term solution however with the wood and metal right down there, well you know what i mean. Ive been racking my brain to find a good solution for that area that would be diy friendly and fairly cheap and not have the wood/metal right on the ground. Here is what im planning on doing on my next one: 1. pour concrete piers as normal with rebar sticking out on top 2. pour a 1' tall by 6" wide concrete (grade beam/stem wall/rat wall) following building perimeter on top the peirs with one horizontal 1/2" rebar within and post brackets placed on top 3. Run foam insulation down inside of grade beam (I think i would run it down 1' vertically with the beam and then 1' horizontally running out under the beam also) 4. Build on top that and grade dirt and pour concrete flatwork up to it where needed No one would ever know it wasnt a regular stem wall and it would be cheaper and more diy friendly imo than a traditional pour. One could easily make some simple forms from a few 2X12s which could later be reused on the building for headers and what not. You could even just set up one wall at a time, pour that, then move the forms to the next wall and so on, it doesnt need to be poured monolithically all at once. Such a small job could be done with bags and a mixer.

[@widj222]

Would you do anything different if your frost protection had to be twice as deep? It's 48" here 😅

[@BK-fy2xi]

Metal trim always looks so clean and tight. Vinyl trim always warps and gaps.

[@Corey-dy2cq]

Guy I just don't like the post hole concrete. Pour a proper footer is the only way. I know, i know. Money savings but a shed with the footer and stem wall just cant be beat. I think it's the best long term investment anyone can make. But call me crazy and pour a pad up to a dirt/insulation/untreated board pole barn pad....let one pole get crooked in the freeze zone after a bad wet freezy winter with nothing but dirt to support it next to it.....i dunno not for me. Continuous concrete footer below freeze grade and a stem wall above at least a foot or two above grade to wash out the shed. Again appreciate the energy and all you do to educated us but I just can't not voice the opinion and understand the whole pole barn concept. Hell I've seen you pull bad pours on one single pier. Won't have that problem on a stem wall.

[@briansdumbchannelderpy6986]

I’m tired of arguing with people about this. If it’s living quarters , an engineered wall and footer. If it’s for storage or AG, then piers are fine. All the clueless tick tockers , there’s gonna be a million of these for sale in 30 years with rotten grade boards.