Is a bare metal roof a giant mistake?

The picture shows the general shed style of the sugar shed I will be reassembling in February. There will be openings at the top of each side wall and at the top of the stove pipe end and at the front of the structure.

I will be putting on more supports on the roof to hold the metal roof.

My question is, even with the openings to let the steam out, will having a bare metal roof as a roof, be a giant mistake and will I have tons of water dripping down on my pans and me?

If I have house wrap in front of the metal roof will that help any?

Thanks.

Gary

(The leaves on the left are no longer there partially because it is winter, but mostly the beavers wiped out many of the saplings around the evaporator.)

https://share.icloud.com/photos/08dQ...X4NM5TAujj1-8w

Our shack is similar, we built the slope of the shed roof to have the high side opposite the prevailing wind, so as long as the wind cooperates it steams out no problem, but when the wind blows the other direction the steam does a barrel roll over the pan and there is 0 visibility, but we just open the doors and then it clears out. Our roof is recycled corrugated barn roofing, it does drip some, but only where there were old penetrations, the majority of the condensation runs down the underside to the low point and drips off into a rain gutter and then into a barrel. You can kinda see in this picture when the wind doesn't cooperate https://photos.app.goo.gl/D3hUhAFpxAwgA97i6

I built myself a shack similar to what you want to do this fall. I used a free 9'x7' one-piece overhead door as a roof. I have windows on the side and back to let air flow and a gap at the top along low side and high side.

I will be testing the boil with water to see if I get a condensation problem and can adjust with something in case it rains inside from steam.

You may get some moisture Gary, but with the amount of open air area probably not a lot.

Thanks for the advice. It is good to know that most of the steam should escape and most of drips should run down to the low point of the roof.

I have already purchased real metal roofing. I will have lots of openings at the sides and ends. After I attach the half wall sides and the end, I am going to figure out a way to close or open the open areas. The end wall I will also figure out, once the rest is built around the evaporator.

Comments - You should provide some sill plate to top plate longitudinal and transverse diagonal bracing in your walls for structural stability. The posts should also have some tie-down capacity. You should be able to find standard practice guidelines online including fastener requirements for all structural components.

Ken

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Originally Posted by TapTapTap

Comments - You should provide some sill plate to top plate longitudinal and transverse diagonal bracing in your walls for structural stability. The posts should also have some tie-down capacity. You should be able to find standard practice guidelines online including fastener requirements for all structural components.

Ken

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I agree, i would hate to see you get your pans all leveled and ready to go. Then a big gust of wind huffs and puffs and blows the whole place down. Running your siding diagonally would give you some wind bracing strength and also makes for a nice finished look.

Thanks for the advice.

There are more structural supports that will be added and there will be plywood walls. The picture was taken after I had partially built it, then my wife was not pleased with another structure being built within eye sight of the house. After a rare argument, we agreed on it going up a couple weeks before sap season and coming down a few weeks after sap season. I stopped building it, but measured and cut the additional supports for reassembly in February.

I hope to build a permanent one behind the garage this summer. Built to last. It will not be a fancy one and will be 9x12 in size and will be the same style.

It is a good point of being blown up in the air with a good gust of wind. Although I will have many more structural supports, it is only the weight of the building keeping it down. I will add some tie downs to make sure that does not happen. Thank you.

you mean like this?

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/kB...-no?authuser=0

I get some condensation when the sides are rolled down but that's rare.

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Originally Posted by eustis22

you mean like this?

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/kB...-no?authuser=0

I get some condensation when the sides are rolled down but that's rare.

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