Pole building construction pictures

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That is a great looking barn with a lot of upscale features. To get it done in 5months was a very good effort.

I spent about a month just cleaning up my site when my old barn burned. I had to sift through about 30 cubic yards of wood ashes with a shovel to recover all the recyclable metal and I hauled them in a wheel barrow to a landfill pit a couple hundred feet away. I spent 4 complete days just removing charred wood from the sheet metal, cutting the sheets to length, flattening them out and loading the metal into a trailer for recycling.

The last two pictures show the old barn and its replacement. The origional barn was lined with OSB on the inside walls and the ceiling. That contributed to the heat of the fire and produced a lot of ashes.

I had considered building my barn myself but there in so way I could handle the 40 foot clear span trusses by myself effeciently. I figured it would take me about an hour to move one of them from the pile and walk them up to the top of the 14 foot wall and slide them into place by myself. There are 31 of them. I would have taken me 4 days to just get the trusses in place.

The crew the built my barn set all the trusses in about 1 hour.

The crew leader has been building barns for 35 years. I think that helps.
The labor part of the contract was the best $4600 I have ever spent.

Steve how big is your new barn?
Wedge

 

[Steve C]

Steve how big is your new barn?
Wedge

It is 40 x 60 with 14 foot side walls, Dimensional shingled roof, 4 windows, 12w x 13 high insulated roll up door and a man door.
It cost me an additional $1600 to have the slab extended to fill the gap between the old slab and the new barn.

 

[smfcpacfp]

Steve C,

Where are you in Central Michigan? My daughter goes to Central Michigan U and I was all over that area last weekend (Allendale, Big Rapids, MT Pleasant).

 

[Duffster]

It is 40 x 60 with 14 foot side walls, Dimensional shingled roof, 4 windows, 12w x 13 high insulated roll up door and a man door.
It cost me an additional $1600 to have the slab extended to fill the gap between the old slab and the new barn.

How come you went with the shingle roof?

 

[Lt CHEG]

smfcpacfp,

I really like your building. I'm thinking that it may be more affordable for me to build a single story two bay wide storage shed and workshop to house my tractor, ATV, snowmobiles, and miscellaneous storage than to build or have built the large two story shed that I was originally planning. My wife really fell in love with one of those 16 x 30 Amish built 2 story sheds that we saw while leaf peeping, but man are they pricey. I'm thinking that I could get just as much storage space out of a building such as yours for much less money. If you don't mind my asking, could you give us a ball park figure on what we could expect to spend on a building such as yours? Thanks and congratulations on a great project.

 

[Steve C]

smfcpacfp,

I really like your building. I'm thinking that it may be more affordable for me to build a single story two bay wide storage shed and workshop to house my tractor, ATV, snowmobiles, and miscellaneous storage than to build or have built the large two story shed that I was originally planning. My wife really fell in love with one of those 16 x 30 Amish built 2 story sheds that we saw while leaf peeping, but man are they pricey. I'm thinking that I could get just as much storage space out of a building such as yours for much less money. If you don't mind my asking, could you give us a ball park figure on what we could expect to spend on a building such as yours? Thanks and congratulations on a great project.

The material package cost for my building from Carter Lumber of Muskegon Michigan was $13,400, the labor was $4800 for a total of $18,200 I plan on building a 1600 suqare foot mezzanine inside for my wood shop and additional storage of lighter items giving me a total of 4,000 sq foot of floor space.

I live in an area that is very economicaly dedpressed (Gladwin county Michigan) and has a relatively low cost of living, therefore the labor rate is probably much lower than you might get in a more urban area.

This is my place, in the center of the picture. The barn replaced the one in the middle that burned down.

 

[Steve C]

Steve C,

Where are you in Central Michigan? My daughter goes to Central Michigan U and I was all over that area last weekend (Allendale, Big Rapids, MT Pleasant).

I am 25 miles south east of Houghton Lake, 22 miles south west of West Branch and 7 miles north east of Gladwin. I am just on the south edge of the snow belt in this area.

 

[Steve C]

How come you went with the shingle roof?

For the looks to match the house and to avoid the sweating we get here in Michigan. We have temperature swings of 40 degrees in the spring and fall and relatively high humidity at those times. When the sun goes down and the temperature drops 40 degrees, the metal roof quickly cools off. When the surface of the roof drops below the dew point of the air inside the barn it will sweat and rain inside the barn untill equlibrium is reached. With the shingle roof over a wood deck it doesn't change temperature as quickly, the full length ridge vent along with the full length eave vents allow the warm air inside the barn to rise up and sweep the bottom side of the roof deck keeping it warmer. The cooler air that is being sucked into the eave vents falls to the floor to displace the warm inside air that is escaping. This process stops the bottom of the roof deck from ever falling below the dew point of the air.

The attached photo show the house and old barn. The south part of the house has the dark shingles, I am going to replace the roof on the north section of the house this year with the same shingles. The old barn in the center had awhite metal roof.

 

[Lt CHEG]

The material package cost for my building from Carter Lumber of Muskegon Michigan was $13,400, the labor was $4800 for a total of $18,200 I plan on building a 1600 suqare foot mezzanine inside for my wood shop and additional storage of lighter items giving me a total of 4,000 sq foot of floor space.

I live in an area that is very economicaly dedpressed (Gladwin county Michigan) and has a relatively low cost of living, therefore the labor rate is probably much lower than you might get in a more urban area.

This is my place, in the center of the picture. The barn replaced the one in the middle that burned down.

That's not too bad at all. I'd be looking at maybe 24x30 max. Anything bigger would look out of place, and frankly property taxes are so high in the town that I bought land in that I don't want anything too big and fancy further increasing my taxes. I could probably do 20x30 for $12000 to $15000 then even if I went with T111 siding instead of the steel siding, especially if I did all the labor (except maybe for setting the trusses).

 

[Steve C]

That's not too bad at all. I'd be looking at maybe 24x30 max. Anything bigger would look out of place, and frankly property taxes are so high in the town that I bought land in that I don't want anything too big and fancy further increasing my taxes. I could probably do 20x30 for $12000 to $15000 then even if I went with T111 siding instead of the steel siding, especially if I did all the labor (except maybe for setting the trusses).

You should be able to a 24 x 30 for a very reasonable cost. The 24 foot trusses are the mose economical ones to buy. I had package prices of 10k to 11k from Menards, Lowes and Home Depot for a 36 x 56. I would think a 24 x 30 would be around 5k if you build it yourself. 24 foot trusses are very easy to handle even by yourself.