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27/11/2009

Small Barn Plans – Review Of A Product

I’ve written a few days back I’ll be posting some small barn plans. Meanwhile I also found a product containing 61 designs, including small barn plans and DIY building guides. I’ll do a quick review but if you’re in a hurry and this is exactly what you were searching for jump directly to the product website.

I was doing some research a few weeks back for small barns plans and came across this site which was selling a bunch of these barn plans. I have some of my own small barn blueprints when I build for relatives and friends but those are just basic. In the future I’ll be using some of these concepts from these plans (and make them my own of course) as there are a few things helped me simplify the building of small barns.

The product is digital, so you download it directly to your computer (in a minute or two). You’ll receive 61 designs, including one, two, three and four-car country garages with big storage lofts, an RV garage, small barn plans, a six-stall horse barn, backyard storage barns, pole-barns, pole-frame garages, workshops, hobby shops, carriage house style garages, barn-style sheds and a bunch of other plans. The plans are very good quality as they should be considering the author (look below). He’ll also point you to other resources once (if!) the included plans are not enough for you.

The author is an architect with quite a few references which is not necessary but still comforting (as is the money-back guarantee).

Donald Berg, a member of the American Institute of Architects, has published fifteen books on traditional American building, gardening and landscaping. His designs, articles and interviews have appeared in Home Magazine, Country Life, The Old-House Journal, Yankee Home Magazine, Period Home Magazine, Traditional Building and many other publications.

From what I’ve seen I think it’s worth the few bucks he wants. You can get the plans here.

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24/11/2009

Pole Barns As The Easiest Solution For Storage And Shelter, part 2

Filed under: Barn Building,Barn Plans — Tags: Barn Building, Barn Plans, Small Barn Plans — Ryan Sutton @ 5:27 PM

Small Barn

Deciding to make a pole as foundation in building a pole barn is the most economical method as these poles or posts relatively act as framing members. To withstand maximum pressure, the posts or poles are put deeply into
the subterranean surface reaching depths of approximately 10 feet at times which is ideally within the range of foundation digging that builders of pole barn normally would anticipate. The structure results in being firm and strong because the pressure is equally shared all around these poles. Extra funds for labor and materials are saved because instead of the more costly full concrete foundation, poles only need little quantity of concrete poured into its holes.

Flexibility is something that pole foundation provides to the construction. You can almost raise pole barns with pole foundation anywhere you want it, even in those areas where the customary foundation built on full concrete may not be possible to build such as areas that are wooded or steep hillsides. Mountains and coastal areas are also suitable for pole barns. These areas are well suited for building pole sheds and barns because the simple and minimal building techniques required in constructing barns with pole foundation preserves the natural condition of the area’s environment and has the least effect on altering the ground on which it is built. With this the pole barns still make the land suitable for natural farming and raising crops. Also, there is not much need to make ground excavations that costs you big amounts of money as pole barns built on pole foundations are quickly and easily built.

One aspect to be noted with regards to the pole barn’s economic advantages is that they do not necessarily require to be custom-built to look perfect. Cheap roofing made up of galvanized steel remains quite affordable and the wood sidings will only cost you a small amount of money. For pole barns you only need to make sure that
you installed durable storm clips especially now more than ever when hurricanes and big storms often hit. Not to be forgotten is putting emphasis on the good quality of trusses as these construction components of the pole foundation bears a major portion of the entire structure’s weight.

The price for building a pole barn with pole foundation is at the range of $3,000 and up. This is still mostly depending on the size of your pole barn and the materials to be used. Building pole barns and other pole structures do not require someone to have specific detailed knowledge and experience in building. Simple, easy to follow instruction plans are now available for you to build your pole barn with pole foundation.