Thank you for the animation--I so want to see the details of the building effort. Congratulations on reusing all the wood around the property. Great teamwork.
Mmmm, have you ever been involved in building a structure before? You might want to put in jack studs to support the windows and doors and sturdy headers (think lintels) to provide support above windows and doors to help carry the roof loads.
I think the wooden roof is actually an under roof - very common in Scandinavia to use that underneath. Consider maybe saving this material as well. Just a tip :)
I love the way you reuse the materials from the old barn! The result is nice, congrats! You have skills in carpentry for sure, as you said but it appears that your girlfriend too! It's very useful to be able to work two of you!
11:30 That is not what vapor barier is used for... Vapor barier is to prevent vapor going to insulation and making it wet... And outside of the building you should do wind barier not vapor...
Mmmm, have you ever been involved in building a structure before? You might want to put in jack studs to support the windows and doors and sturdy headers (think lintels) to provide support above windows and doors to help carry the roof loads.
Glad to have stumbled upon your channel and your documentations of your Swedish forest life. Very inspiring! Do you mind me asking how you made it so that the new ridge beam was supported (and is supporting) and having bearing capabilities? Is it only the horizontal boards/collar ties and screws between rafters and the new ridge beam that provides the structural integrity? Sorry for a very newbie question, I am unfortunately not a trained craftsman, and I'm finding it hard to come by any books describing the basics of building (small) wooden structures.
In this case the ridge beam is attached to the old one and eventually supported on the other side on top of the wall. The reason for me to make the rafters first, was because I needed to copy the ones that were already there. So the way I build the roof here has a bit of a weird order. In the end the ridge beam is there to give support to the rafters and keep the rafters in a straight line. In theory, if you would take it al apart today, the ridge beam would stay up on its own, without the rafters. Hope this makes sense. Feel free to ask more if this isn't clear. Also, take a look here: www.traguiden.se/. Would be nice if I had found this site earlier...
@@buildaway That's very helpful and informative, thank you very much for sharing! How do you go about attaching the new ridge beam to the old one? At first I thought you drove a metal cylinder through them both, in the video that is, but then it seems that it went all the way into the old one. That träguiden also seems helpful to say the least! I live in Denmark, and it's interesting to see the difference in how available knowledge about construction is between Denmark and Sweden. The few books I've been able to find about carpentry is in Swedish. I guess there's a cultural difference right there... Any ways thank you for all your videos, and for answering here. I'm eventually going to move to Sweden too, and your videos are extremly helpful (and cozy!). Looking forward to follow along.
Should have used the vapor barrier indeed. We're misinformed by the hardware store and in a bit of a rush. We hope it will be ok because the small house will be used as a summer house for friends and family. We will do this differently in the big house.
May I ask what are your plans with the main house? Major rebuilds perhaps? For some reason, most newcomers start by tearing down all the old, without any interest in the history of the house nor its restoration, trying to modernize as much as possible .. drywalls .. laminate flooring and stuff like that .. and thereby destroying the building's uniqueness and real value. Hope this case will be different, but we'll see (as the blind man said) ... 😉
Our plans aren't set to be honest. We definitely value the history of the house(s) and love the original Swedish design. We do need some improvements though, like a bathroom/toilet (there aren't any) and some proper insulation (there isn't any as well)😊
