Repair Barn Siding

Our family owned business specializes in repairing and restoring your historic barns and farm buildings.

Repair barn siding.

It s slow and tricky work. Apply a smooth bead of caulking to every groove in the t1 11 siding. We ve started replacing the boards on our barn. As a manufacturer of post frame buildings since 1954 wick buildings literally knows these structures inside and out.

This adds additional protection and extends the expected lifetime of the material. Lots of great answers above but the best one is to sheer off the siding above the rot line and replace the lower section with something that doesn t rot. Let us deliver the custom tongue and groove barn wood siding we make so your project is easy and has the barn look you want. Jacking up a barn to replace rotten sills or to repair a stone foundation is best left to professionals.

Set the blade at a 5 degree bevel and a 1 inch cutting depth. Saving barns and farm buildings since 1975. We add on to current structures. We completely renovate buildings that.

Keeping a watertight roof is essential. Repair and repaint historic siding rather than cover barns with artificialsiding. We ve been repairing straightening and renovating barns since 1975. Door repair and conversions steel roof replacements skylight installations steel trim repairs rotted post repairs steel siding replacements gutter repairs before after we repair buildings in all states of well disrepair.

Not just anyone works on repairing barns post frame buildings even if you can find a builder to help you with barn repair not many specialize in this kind of construction project. Bender builders inc has earned its reputation as the best barn straighteners in the midwest. Replace any rotten or damaged studs before. Siding applied over the entire surface of a building can give itan entirely different appearance obscure craft details and mask ongoingdeterioration of historic materials underneath.

You can use plenty of materials for that. Repair the roof once the foundation is set and the building will not move. Tack a batten to the water table horizontally to guide the saw and ensure a straight 90 degree cut. We fix doors and windows.

If the foundation is stone you might need to engage a stonemason. The barn is around 30 years old the bottom 2ft of the barn. Here is a video showing our progress on our barn.