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Originally Posted by cornerstone
How do y’all feel if I didn’t cover the roof with a slab but just standard R-panel, and spray foam insulate it? No garden up there, no parking of vehicles etc.? Thanks for all the input for sure. 
Brian |
Actually, that's almost
exactly the same as our hay shed/horse barn.
We used 6x8 and 6x6 posts on 12' spacing, and beams across the top laterally, with three rows of 2x6 rafters. OSB and metal on top of that. Lower two thirds of it is hay storage, tack room, and aisle, while the other third is three 12x12 "run in" stalls for the horses.
It wasn't what I had planned (a gable barn) but there was a 12x16' shed sitting where we wanted the barn to be, so instead of moving it or tearing it down we just built around it creating the huge wedge of cheese effect. I already had a trailer load of 6x8 timbers and the shed became the tack room. The bonus is all the roof water runs off into the road ditch and the extra tall "doors" for the horses to come into their stalls.
You will have to come up with a plan for all the water that runs off your shed roof into the gap between the back of your building and the hillside
Edit: BTW, our building is only about six feet high inside at the back and twelve feet high at the front ( 2/12 pitch ). This was determined by the pitch and height of the existing shed. Did I mention "cheap" ?
