Well after a month of pounding snow. I got off my *** an started to shovel out a path to my shed. Half way there I saw my shed's roof caved in. I shoveled the roof off and peeked inside. Luckily no damage except a little water damage. Now I'll have to sell some parts to build/buy another shed. Could have been worse so no complaints but still sucks.
Wow that sucks. Out here in Texas we build pole barns. Most folks use old oil well pipe casing for supports. These are usually concreted 3 feet in the ground. Our roofs are fairly flat as we dont get too much snow. Mine is a 2' x 15.5' slope. 2 feet up for every 15.5 feet of slope. Thats pretty flat but common. Once the building is up, you build a form for your approach to the garage door, and a form for your personnel door, set sand and rebar in place and pour a floor using the sheetmetal walls as a permanent form.
Obviously out by you a way sharper roof pitch is required. However that can work to your advantage because you can use it as a loft for additional storage space. Id recommend a steel panel roof with a good pitch on it with either "R" panel, or "U" panel steel sheet. Reason being is it will not hold onto the snow like a shingled roof will. As the snow melts it has a tendency to slide off the end of the metal roof.
My home and shop both have metal roofs. If your interested in pix of my shops construction pm me with your email addy, or a number we can text back and forth with, and i can send you pix. My shop is all metal construction, and was stick built on site. It was not a kit. I think the same construction principles can apply except the roof slope.
The way the center roof truss is built as 2 back to back C channels gusseted and welded together as an I beam, allows me to have a 31 foot span across without the need for a center support pole.
Let me know if i can help
Matt
