repairs

Owning an old barn – one that was built in the first decade of the 1900s – brings special challenges in the form of maintenance and repairs.  When Clackamas Soil and Water Conservation District purchased the farm property in 2013, we expected to find some deterioration in the barn.  The […]

We last reported on the barn repairs two-and-a-half months ago.  It’s time for an update! Progress to date Tremendous progress has been made to the southwest corner of the barn.  This is the corner that receives the brunt of stormy winter weather. The building was twisted and no longer vertical […]

The century-old barn is showing it’s age.  This year, we began making structural repairs to the south wall. In 2014, we made an emergency repair to a post at the northwest corner of the barn and later repaired the roof.  After those repairs, we carefully inspected the entire structure to […]