30X50 barn

[TerryinMD]

Out in Western Maryland, I had a 30X50X10 with 30X40 fully enclosed, 2 8X9 garage doors, 4 windows, 2 entry doors, 1 ft overhang all the way around, and ridge venting constructed for just over $16k. Concrete work for just under $3k, insulating the entire interior with radiant barrier insulation for $1100 installed by me and the wife. The company, Pioneer Pole Buildings is from PA and does excellent work.

Electrical work was done by a friend in the trade. Lot's of conduit between the barn and the house. Even got a used heat pump for free and another friend will be helping install it.

It pays to shop around and ask your neighbors for recommendations. I figured I saved somewhere between $5k and $10k with my project.

Later,
Terry

 

[heehaw]

wow, i thought i shopped around for deals, but you got a heck of a deal on all that. i priced concrete this moring, and the one place i called wants $3 a sq ft: well, i will continue shopping, another guy is coming out this afternoon to look it over..with the 14 inch drop, its going to take some fill, so i may do that before i get someone to do the concrete..i can haul sand in the bucket as easy as anyone.
heehaw

 

[mikim]

I only hope I can find concrete for $3 a sq ft ... I've heard they want $10 around here. .... I'd jump all over 3

 

[heehaw]

i think thats one reason Arkansas is becoming so much of a retirement state...but we do have a state income tax.
heehaw

 

[BB_TX]

In 2000 mine came out at about $5 per foot. But that was with extra large beams around the perimeter and crossing the middle front to back and side to side with extra steel in all the beams. And they had to form drip ledges around the perimeter. Also had some small aprons at the front and back doors. They poured 39 yds of concrete.

 

[mikim]

OK - I'm convinced ... I've been talking to the wrong people. Gonna have to spend some time shopping. I'd like to get this barn up by the end of the year. Because the place is 3 hours from where I live & work - I'd pay to have it done as long as I don't get ripped off on it. It just seems to me that $25K - $30K is a bit excessive for labor. I'd really like to do a lot of it myself .... but I'd have to leave materials sitting unguarded for long periods of time -- and I'm afraid I'd lose 'em to thieves. I'm going to talk to Mueller about it .. they are on my route to the country - maybe they'd sell me the pieces as I go and I could pick up just the material I need for whatever time span I have that trip. Then I have to hope that some enterprising, hard working(?) thief doesn't deconstruct whatever I put up. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

[rswyan]

For concrete Cleary quoted me under $3 per s.f ($2.80 I think) when they were putting up our barn. That was for 4" slab, 3000 or 4000 psi with 10 ga. wire mesh I believe. Each additional inch of thickness was 35¢. They sub it out of course.

The cost on the barn shell itself was around $28K - $29K (over budget by about $1200 I think due to some problems they encountered.)

The barn is 42' x 72' x 13' with three 12' x 10' Clopay insulated commercial overhead doors. 3-ply 2 x 6 poles set on 8' centers with around 40 psi snow load on the trusses/roof.

 

[billbill1]

RSWyan, that's a very nice looking building.

 

[EddieWalker]

Mike,

I know prices vary all over the place, but for a foundation, formed up, rebar and material to include the finished pour, I'd expect to pay aroud $3 a foot.

One of the things I've run into lately is they are telling me how much rebar has gone up. It has, but not as much as the contractors are saying it has. I saved a few hundred dollars buying the rebar myself from a feed store compared to the supply house my contractor uses. He said it's too far for him to drive to get the better price. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

For a few hundred dollars, I'll drive an hour no problem.

The price of concrete is going up like crazy. The damand is totally out of control. New Orleans is getting all the Portland Cement they can in our area and it's causing some serious shortages and huge price increases.

As for Mueller, I love them. I've had nothing but good luck with them. If you change your mind on the color of a roll up door after special ordering it, no problem, they will reorder the color your girlfriend, or in your case, wife wants it to be.

The longest piece of material I bought from them was 32 feet long. No way to get that on a 16 foot trailer, so I paid the extra $75 to have them deliver the entire load. Another advantage to having them deliver it is when they unload it, you can have them stage the various pieces where you want them.

Eddie

 

[BB_TX]

As Eddie said, they will stage it. They brought out the main frame members first. After I got the frame work up, I called and they brought out most everything else. I think the final delivery was the last trim work. However, I could have had them bring what I needed at the time. My place was about 20 miles from the Sherman Mueller. I don't remember any extra charge for multiple deliveries.
But I will say again. You will need help on the frame and roof panels. (maybe a TBN outing /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif). And it will take quite a while working by yourself on weekends to do the rest of it.