A standing seam metal roof tops off Frederick Ward Associates Inc.’s design for a rural homeowner’s barn. The 4,875-square-foot barn has 14-foot-wide doors and a 1,880-square-foot loft with windowed dormers.
The roof has various pitches, some as steep as 9:12, which required additional safety precautions. Agpoint Construction Services LLC installed 7,500 square feet of McElroy Metal’s 16-inch-wide Medallion-Lok standing seam roof system in Sherwin-Williams Coil Coatings’ Fluropon PVDF Charcoal Gray coating. Also, Agpoint installed S-5!’s ColorGard snow retention system. To top off the cupolas, Agpoint installed a small amount of copper standing seam roofing.
Barry Flora, project manager at Agpoint, says he had plenty of crew members on the job site to handle long panels in challenging conditions. “That area has a tendency to be subject to some windy days and getting those longer panels into place took extra care. We also paid close attention to detail during the roof installation, made sure everything was flashed properly. Obviously, you never want to have water infiltration with any building, but with all those dormers, this job provided plenty of opportunities. We made sure it wasn’t going to happen.”
Agpoint sided the interior of the barn with T-1111 clear cedar siding, which has grooves 8 inches on-center. Agpoint also trimmed interior windows and doors with cedar, and wrapped cedar siding around the bottom 4 feet of interior glulam columns. For exterior siding, Agpoint installed 1-inch by 12-inch #1 cedar board and batten siding. RigidPly Rafters Inc. distributed the cedar siding, columns, barn trusses and snow retention system.
Ted Jasinski, AIA, NCARB, CGP, vice president and director of architecture at Frederick Ward, says, “It was all high-end materials, the best of everything. The retaining wall, the metal roofing, the exterior siding, the custom doors, it started as a $750,000 project, but with change orders, it ended up being a million-dollar barn. It’s in an upscale rural neighborhood. Let’s just say it’s a real nice storage facility for some lawn equipment.”
