Filling in between sheds.

[Ffermer Bach]

I am sure, I saw someone else who had some sort of second hand gas pipe cut in half to use as a valley gutter when he put up a new shed. No idea where he got the gas pipe from.

 

[snipe]

Don’t know if it’s been mentioned. When you order your purlins the one at each end are slightly longer to reach the side of the end rafter not the middle.

 

[Gerbert]

A bit of progress today, plates all drilled and one A frame made up, I think I’ll just put in a decent thickness centre gusset rather than a flanged gusset, should be fine as rafters now shorter and the end plates are 15mm rather than 12mm as I haven’t got any 12mm.
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are you going to add a triangle between the lower part of the welded on plate and the beam? Making the plate that long seems pointless if you don't, but I might be wrong.

 

[Nearly]

It would make me cry to cut 20ft rafters down to 12 ft.
Tidy work in pics.

 

[Nearly]

Postage maykill it.

 

[Forever Fendt]

Interesting, I think it might be a bit expensive at the moment with steel circa £1500/t, I need 60m total. Also with 180mm purlins I would like the gutter lip to be quite tight to sheets so probably 150mm deep, I can lift the gutter with the flat bracket that I need to fit to on the end of rafter.

Don't know how far you are along with this project but we have plenty of new Galv gutter here in 20ft and 15 ft bays if you need any

 

[snarling bee]

Re Gutters: Get a continuous aluminium gutter made on site. The only place they can leak is the end or the outlet. We have had a valley gutter and some cottages done. A1 installations Is the firm that does it. I think they were at LAMMA.

 

[Agri Spec Solicitor]

I have a 24’ space between two sheds both same height length. I’m cutting down some 20’ rafters to 12’ with new end plates. Shouldn’t be too taxing but if anyone has any hints? At the moment thinking make A frame i10mm too short and shim as necessary, as it would be much worse if it ended up being 5-10mm too long…

A colleague at work had a shed case a few years ago. It involved same idea taking some existing steelwork which saves the cost of the vertical poles. We had to get an engineer and there were issues about whether the existing shed could take the sideways force: a force it was not designed to take. Can’t remember the detail but worth considering perhaps.

 

[David.]

My main concern would be making it impossible for the rats to use the rafters as a bridge from the bales into the grainstore.

 

[chaffcutter]

We have several runs of valley gutters on 100ft spans, no matter what the steel men did we always had drips, in the end they lined then with pvc liners, job done.
when the manager spoke to the manufacturers about them, they said ‘they aren’t made to be leakproof’ !!