well just damn` I like the looks of thatthe rear wall of the building above.
View attachment 235401 26 gage corrugated steel installed horizontally, it’s for an architect. This is the first time we’ve done this.
Not really maybe less so then the steel vertically. On a conventional building the strapping is horizontal 1x4 or 2x4 allowing mice to travel the perimeter of the building horizontally or vertically through the 7/8”x1 1/2” profile of the steel. The cross section of this building is 2x6 studs @ 16”, 1/2” spruce plywood, tyvek air barrier with all joints taped,2” ridged roxal insulation, strapped vertically @ 16” oc. All windows flashed through with steel trim to the interior of the tyvek and blue skinned, then 26 gage horizontal corrugated cladding with all edges getting lapping trims. Not our first rodeo!If you get mice with the sheets horizontal, they have free reign of the entire building. Put the sheets vertical and they are limited to each individual cavity.
It’s pretty interesting watching them, the top of every second stave is checked with a 12” level then if not perfect a washer us used to level it. I have also seen them measure from one silo to another.Silo's are interesting either bolted metal or precast. They must have to have a very solid, very level foundation so they aren't the leaning tower of disaster. Things like vessels are 1 piece and everything is level and square in the fabrication. I think shims and bolting sequence are used also to to keep them exact.