Painted rafters

Headless chicken

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Location

West Wales

• Sep 27, 2023

• #1

I know @Bald Rick has it at his but is there any negatives to only galving the legs.
I got a little excited when i ordered the last shed and if my maths are correct it’s going to cost nearly £500 each rafter. Preference is to galv it but must admit I’m thinking twice now.

 

Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Anglesey

• Sep 27, 2023

• #2

Headless chicken said:

I know @Bald Rick has it at his but is there any negatives to only galving the legs.
I got a little excited when i ordered the last shed and if my maths are correct it’s going to cost nearly £500 each rafter. Preference is to galv it but must admit I’m thinking twice now.

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Went fully galv on the first shed but painted on the others with fully galv legs. Was a cost thing as the rafters could be painted "in house" but to galv they needed to be sent to Liverpool then returned so double transport plus cost of actually doing the job. And we live in a more civilised part of Wales so I expect you'll have your pants down even harder

They will see me out so I don't care ..........

 

Will Blackburn

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Location

Cheshire

• Sep 27, 2023

• #3

The only thing I find is given even the slightest amount of sh!t or silage the galv is gone quicker than paint. I like the idea of galv because it really brightens it up but the most vulnerable bit still rusts given the above.

 

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linga

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Location

Ceredigion

• Sep 28, 2023

• #4

There will be a significant cost to paint though

 

Sharpy

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Ardrossan Ayrshire

• Sep 28, 2023

• #5

To put things in perspective I know a steel framed shed put up in the mid seventies, two rows of cubicles with a self feed silage pit in the middle, made in situ with burning gear and stick welders, not a bolt in it apart from those to hold the purlins. The legs were painted at the time, as were the rafters up to the point they cross the silage pit. These have remained unpainted ever since. Still a good sound shed, still in original use. Rafters are fine.

 

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vantage

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Pembs

• Sep 28, 2023

• #6

Sharpy said:

To put things in perspective I know a steel framed shed put up in the mid seventies, two rows of cubicles with a self feed silage pit in the middle, made in situ with burning gear and stick welders, not a bolt in it apart from those to hold the purlins. The legs were painted at the time, as were the rafters up to the point they cross the silage pit. These have remained unpainted ever since. Still a good sound shed, still in original use. Rafters are fine.

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I’ll raise you one!
Shed on our heifer yard, probably 1960s, railway girders for uprights, beams to hold roof. Still original asbestos sheets, in good fettle, just slight surface rust on the steel. I think steel was a lot better quality then, all the most recent sheds have been full galv, after we put up two painted and have regretted it.

 

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Old apprentice

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Arable Farmer

• Sep 28, 2023

• #7

My grandfather put a dutch barn up pre second world war using tram line steel took it down in the 1970s used the uprights to make a lean to on another shed the tram line steel is still good or exelent.