What material do you all use for your sugar shack ceiling?
What material do you all use for your sugar shack ceiling?
I have had a wood ceiling for 3 years this year I'm installing steel . Just good old metal roofing from menards it works very good and is washable.
So why did you switch? I have a 2x6 roof rafters on a 12:12 pitch with a metal roof and v-groove pine lining under the metal. I put the pine lining in to prevent the metal from sweating to bad. So far (one season) it worked great with hardly any dripping on our work area.
Ken & Sherry
Williston, VT
16x34 Sugarhouse
1,500 taps on high vacuum, Electric Releaser & CDL Sap Lifter
Wood-Fired Leader 30"x10' Vortex Arch & Max Raised Flue with Rev Syrup Pan & CDL1200 RO
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I have a metal roof on my sugar house and the metal is exposed on the inside. The moisture will condense on the inside of the roofing and drip off of the purlins. I put a steam hood on my flue pan and that stopped most of the dripping.
Russ
"Red Roof Maples" Where the term "boiling soda" was first introduced to the maple world!
1930 Ford Model AA Doodlebug tractor
A couple of Honda 4 wheelers
Four chainsaws and no chickens!
Our roof sheathing is exposed doug fir 2x8's with metal roofing on top of that. More than needed, but no condensation issues at all.
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John Allin
14x18 Hemlock Timber Frame Sugar House 2009
Leader 2x6 w/Patriot Raised Flue Pan 2009
Leader Steam Hood 2014 - Clear Filter Press 2015
Leader Revolution Pan and SS Pre-Heater 2016
CDL Hobby RO & Air Tech L25 Hi Vac Pump 2019
06' Gator HPX to collect wood & sap
14' Ski-Doo Tundra for winter work in the woods
Great Family 3 grown kids+spouses and 7 grand kids who like the woods
7th Gen Born in Canada - Raised in Chardon Ohio - Maple Capital of the World..<grin>.
16x24 Timber Frame Sugar House
Mason 2x4 Evaporator
90 trees on buckets
yes I have a hood I use the smokey lake concentric exaust design just one hole through the roof.
I also have a cupola for any over flow steem. But sense I built the new hood I almost never have steem the convection draws so well in that design. And in the event I do get steem I fire up the wall heater and warm up the Bush and it is gone in an instant. I'm going steel to hide the old stains and make it washable. I have a low flat ceiling over the kitchen/evaporator aria of my sugar bush. It was a good design 10 years ago. With the old unit but now it's a good coverup.
16x24 Timber Frame Sugar House
Mason 2x4 Evaporator
90 trees on buckets
You can use roofing steel or any product approved for wall and ceilings in a milk house. Must be washable.
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.