New barn time

Lucky · Oct 11, 2024

Jeanne - Simme Valley said:
Curious about the red 3-sided shed. Was that just moved to location for storage during construction?
@Lucky is your barn for horses?

Not necessarily for horses but figured since we have a couple might as well add 2 horse stalls while building it. The barn will mainly be used as a sick pen or holding pen. We've been using a sick pen at the corrals but do not have power or water to them. We still need to build a tack room to finish it up.

Lucky · Oct 11, 2024

Mrcopier said:
Never and I mean never pay anything up front. If they are good and reputable they have accounts at building material places and you can give them a draw as you see fit

I agree with never paying up front. We have a really good steel supplier here that will help building design and material list. Because of this we always buy the materials then pay a contractor to construct the building. They generally want half at framing completion and final payment at building completion. The contractors seem to like doing this and it makes the bidding process super quick. I've been using the same concrete guy for 20 yrs now, he's getting older and I hate the idea of finding someone new.

Travlr · Oct 11, 2024

I like building projects so I was curious about the difference in price between a good company built shop and what I could do on my own. For a 24 X 24 pole barn without a floor or any electric they quoted me 20K. I figure it would have taken about a week.

I did it myself for 12K with a concrete floor done by paid help and a professional electrician paid to do the wiring.