Clear-Span or Box Beam Barn

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Well, its been 3 months in the barn is still not complete. Hopefully the installer will keep his promise and finish the ridgelight on the roof so I no longer have a hole in the peak. The installer has left me on his lowest of priorities and I learned a valuable lesson of not paying in full until the work is complete. I am happy with the way it is turning out. Just wish it would have been completed a couple months ago.
 
   / Clear-Span or Box Beam Barn #42  
Sorry to hear about your troubles. It's too bad that the only way to ensure that a contractor will act in good faith is to hold a hammer over them.

Remember that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Call him regularly until he gets it done.

In commercial contracting there is a schedule of values that assigns value to the materials delivered to the jobsite and milestones that are achieved. The contractor submits progress billing for the agreed on values after the materials and/or milestones are delivered. If it is not delivered or done they will not be paid for it. Typically a 20% holdback does a nice job of ensuring final completion.
 
   / Clear-Span or Box Beam Barn #43  
Oh.. I am looking at this barn right now from Branstock!! Hoping to get an idea on quailty of the prooduct delivered? I am looking at a 38x60x12 6/12 for horses... thinking about adding hay storage in the future...

Curious how your lighting the barn since there is no truses to hang from


Was putting in walls more expensive for the same reasons...?

I am mainly in sand and not sure if thats enough for the posts where I might be better off with a standard pole barn?? I'm in Paw Paw, Mi snow load is 50 ( I think)

Where are you located and who was your builder? Would any pole barn builder beable to install this barn?? Is it easy?

I am deciding on which direction to go this weekend... looking at a barn in Delton Saturday.


Lots of questions... and thank you for your post!!!

Jen
 
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jhand said:
Oh.. I am looking at this barn right now from Branstock!! Hoping to get an idea on quailty of the prooduct delivered? I am looking at a 38x60x12 6/12 for horses... thinking about adding hay storage in the future...

Curious how your lighting the barn since there is no truses to hang from

Was putting in walls more expensive for the same reasons...?

I am mainly in sand and not sure if thats enough for the posts where I might be better off with a standard pole barn?? I'm in Paw Paw, Mi snow load is 50 ( I think)

Where are you located and who was your builder? Would any pole barn builder beable to install this barn?? Is it easy?

I am deciding on which direction to go this weekend... looking at a barn in Delton Saturday.

Lots of questions... and thank you for your post!!!

Jen

Hello Jen and welcome to TBN! Answers to your questions are as follows:

Lighting: I have not run power yet but I am planning on using high bay lighting that I can hang from the beams. I do have a ridgelight which let's in the daylight. It's a clear panel at the peak of the roof.

Walls: My barn is completely open so I have no walls. Not sure on how to set up stalls but I would think you could put in posts inside the barn.

Sand: My soil is mostly sand as well. They put in footings just like a standard pole barn before the post so you will be fine. I did have 67 yards of sand brought in to raise the hight of the barn becuase of it being in a low spot.

I am located in Battle Creek and you are welcome to come see the barn if you want.

Not sure who you are talking with from Branstock but I worked with Chris who was great to deal with for the package and questions.

The installer Chris had me work with was Shane, Mr Precise was his company name. DO NOT have this guy install the barn. He has one excuse after another and took 3 months to build my barn and did not finish it. Grant it I had to reorder siding in the middle of the build but he was very difficult to get back to work on my barn.

I would recommend having a local reputable builder construct the barn and do not pay them a dime until the barn is complete. These barns are simple to put up. You do need a crane to set the beams.

I really do like the design. I am planning on building a loft later on which further expands the storage space under the same footprint.

Good luck with your decision and if I can give you any more information on this style barn please let me know.

Mike
 
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milkman636 said:
Sorry to hear about your troubles. It's too bad that the only way to ensure that a contractor will act in good faith is to hold a hammer over them.

Remember that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Call him regularly until he gets it done.

In commercial contracting there is a schedule of values that assigns value to the materials delivered to the jobsite and milestones that are achieved. The contractor submits progress billing for the agreed on values after the materials and/or milestones are delivered. If it is not delivered or done they will not be paid for it. Typically a 20% holdback does a nice job of ensuring final completion.

Thanks Milkman! The pain is over and the barn is finally done. I had to finish it myself. Big lesson learned by me on working with contractors. In the future I will keep holdback of 20% or more until the job is complete. Otherwise you have nothing to hold them to. Thanks for the advice.
 
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Lots of good info. Thanks
 
   / Clear-Span or Box Beam Barn #47  
I would let Branstock know of your problems with the contractor (if you haven't done so). While you don't have much sway over a contractor once you've paid them they do. Branstock feeds this guy plenty of business from the sounds of it and I doubt they want their name to get dragged through the mud because of a poor contractor.
 
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crazyal said:
I would let Branstock know of your problems with the contractor (if you haven't done so). While you don't have much sway over a contractor once you've paid them they do. Branstock feeds this guy plenty of business from the sounds of it and I doubt they want their name to get dragged through the mud because of a poor contractor.

I did let Chris from Branstock know and he put a lot of pressure on this guy for me. I was very thankful for that.

Branstock has multiple installers, if I had to do it again I would of asked for more than one name and their references. I did go and look at another barn they had put up before I had mine built and the owner said it was done in 2 weeks. Should of talked to the guy that installed his.

Oh well, what was done is done. I have my barn finished now and I am happy with it. Learned a good lesson too.
 
   / Clear-Span or Box Beam Barn #49  
Thanks Mike for your help! Sorry to hear your had trouble with the builder...I've actually talked with Shane a couple of times about building it...Good to get advice from u ! I went and looked at a 36x60x12 today north of Battle Creek and got some great advice from the owners... they really like the building and liked working with Chris but also had trouble with the builder...but it was a differnt guy. I rehab homes and contractors in geneneral aren't reliable. Which is sad because if they were they would get more biz.

So Im back at trying to decide if I hire one of the people whom have put this barn up before... hire a builder whom has never built this type before or just build a pole barn.

There's got to me more people out there that have built these with better luck with builders.

Looked like a really neat barn though! Glad yours is done! :)

I enclosed a few of there barn pics There simple barns:thumbsup:
 

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You're welcome Jen! Good luck with your barn and I hope everything works out.
 
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