A New Toy...

[BrokenolMarine]

If things go as planned, the old chicken coop beside the range house will come down in the next year or so and be replaced with a new two or three stall cow barn with small tack room. I'll run power off the back of that to the range house just for lights and a plug in case I want to run a heater inside when i am shooting in the winter. The chicken coop will move down by the pond to the old barn when the new one is placed up in the old spot. The remaining space in the old barn will be used solely for equipment storage of the tractor and implements and the flatbed trailer, etc.

[BrokenolMarine]

If you decide to purchase one of these buildings, shop a bit, and insure you buy quality up front. We have owned several over the last thirty years. Well built buildings last decades. A couple of friends over the years tried to cheap out and bought low priced buildings from box stores, or from low rent builders and the materials didn't last, floors were poorly supported, and walls deteriorated quickly.

The only things we ever did was to reshingle a roof after about fifteen years, and put a new floor in one of the early buildings when we were storing kayaks in a building we hadn't painted the floor in. Our fault. We didn't make that mistake again. LOL.

[Sir Henry]

If you decide to purchase one of these buildings, shop a bit, and insure you buy quality up front. We have owned several over the last thirty years. Well built buildings last decades. A couple of friends over the years tried to cheap out and bought low priced buildings from box stores, or from low rent builders and the materials didn't last, floors were poorly supported, and walls deteriorated quickly.

The only things we ever did was to reshingle a roof after about fifteen years, and put a new floor in one of the early buildings when we were storing kayaks in a building we hadn't painted the floor in. Our fault. We didn't make that mistake again. LOL.

I can remember thinking in 40 year lifetime warranties. Now I think it only has to last 10 years.

[BrokenolMarine]

Males in Tina's family often reached triple digits, if you looked up "Grumpy Old Men," in the dictionary, there were pictures from her family holidays. Don't short yourself. I plan to be old, gimpy, AND Grumpy.

[daytime dave]

Thanks for the information on the buildings. I will keep all of this in mind when "she shed shopping".

[markiver54]

"she shed shopping".

Say that three times fast!

[Hatchdog]

If you decide to purchase one of these buildings, shop a bit, and insure you buy quality up front. We have owned several over the last thirty years. Well built buildings last decades. A couple of friends over the years tried to cheap out and bought low priced buildings from box stores, or from low rent builders and the materials didn't last, floors were poorly supported, and walls deteriorated quickly.

The only things we ever did was to reshingle a roof after about fifteen years, and put a new floor in one of the early buildings when we were storing kayaks in a building we hadn't painted the floor in. Our fault. We didn't make that mistake again. LOL.

We have a local company operated by a religious group, I believe Mennonites but I could be wrong on that. They build a quality shed and offer a large amount of options and different style buildings. We have two of them and the quality is amazing. I’ve had others as BOM mentioned and they didn’t hold up. Not only are the buildings good quality but dealing with the folks who sell and deliver the sheds is a pleasure. First class folks.

[BrokenolMarine]

The mennonites build a lot of the buildings in VA as well. We bought several over the years, at prices about 20% more than I would have paid for materials. I once asked a friend who knew many of them how they could do that.

He said, "Volume."

You buy forty two by four studs, they buy four box cars. You buy ten sheets of barn siding, they buy two box cars, you buy twenty metal roofing panels, they buy four box cars. I do mean, box cars. The site I went to was beside the tracks, the train pulled off on the siding and dropped the ten or twelve cars off the end on one siding, pulled up and backed down another siding and hooked up to ten or twelve empty cars, and was gone.

They unloaded the cars with huge forklifts and took the supplies in the warehouse, where families were building the buildings. Walls were drawn on the floor, studs laid on templates and boom, teams of young men put them together. Floors, same. Boom... Buildings appear like magic. Move thru the warehouse to windows, doors, trim, paint, etc. Few days later... Another train.