Monitor Roof Barn

The floor plan is a wide open workshop with a small storage room.

Monitor roof barn.

In the past monitor style roofs were only used in traditional barn designs specifically horse barns. The vertical wall area separating the shed and gable roof can be used to provide natural light. Our amish built monitor barn comes in any size layout and for any purpose. All packaged in a 3 x 3 x 24 cardboard box.

The monitor style roof has a raised center aisle and the long sides of the monitor often boast clerestory windows or louvers that allow light or ventilation to penetrate the areas under the roof. While traditionally monitor style roofs were a popular choice for farm and equestrian buildings these days they are common across a broad range of steel building types among them. This barn style offers a much higher roof line than a gable style barn improving natural light and ventilation or allowing for the creation of a large loft or even finished living quarters. Today monitor roofs are found on everything from metal agricultural buildings to houses shops and garages.

This monitor barn kit outside seattle washington was designed by dc structures as a heavy duty workshop. We send the plan package which includes a master set of drawings which are printed on 24 x 36 quality bond paper a materials list which includes the majority of the lumber concrete and steel beam calculations an invoice and an instruction sheet explaining how to use the drawings. This type of roof has been used for barns and traditional sugar houses over the years. You can have it built for your dream home garage retail space or anything you would like.

Definition of a monitor barn. A monitor barn also called a raised center aisle or rca barn is a traditional barn design that features a raised center section. Founded by j a hansen hansen pole buildings llc was formed as a limited liability corporation in 2002 as an internet based business providing custom designed high quality pole building kits at affordable prices. A monitor roof is defined as a symmetrical two sided roof with a raised area along the ridge with it s own roof running parallel to the main roof.

A monitor building has a center gable section raised above two sheds. Monitor style describes a building with a raised center section and a gabled roof supported by trusses. A loft floor can be incorporated under the raised gable to provide floor space for storage or a specific purpose room. It does not have to be a barn.