Steel Siding & Insulation Underway – Southgate Honey Shed Build
Wall steel is going up on our honey shed addition in Southgate, located just south of Durham between Holstein and Mount Forest. It’s always exciting to see color hit the building—this custom steel siding from Keupfer really pulls the structure together. The new siding gives the honey extraction building a clean, professional finish that ties into the surrounding farm property.
Inside, we’re spray-foaming the new honey extraction room and using Roxul mineral wool insulation in the original section of the pole shed. We installed Typar house wrap behind the new wall steel to serve as a proper air barrier, ensuring the building envelope is sealed and energy-efficient. This mix of new build and renovation work reflects how we bring older sheds up to modern performance standards for rural homeowners and agricultural clients.
The remainder of the old wall steel will be taken off and the new steel will cover the entire building. The old steel will be reused on the interior of the original building which will be storage and work shop for the honey business.
We installed this 2" x 6" board in the open web of the old building to create a spot to route the new wiring as their will be no ceiling in this part and all the wiring in the trusses will be exposed.
We had trims made to trim out the contractor grade steel insulated doors, making a nice clean transition to the new wall steel. The doors were installed with no windows to make blacking out the building easier when certain aspects of the bee keeping business require a dark working space.
This is the new utility room in the building. This is where the water comes into the building, the new 100 amp electrical panel, and catch basin for the extraction room gutter drain is located. It will be lined with plywood to make it easy to mount all the utilities, and the hot water tank will be located.
This door opening is ready for the new
insulated overhead door. We cladded all the interior with white steel to match the new liner and make a very clean surface to mount the new door track too.