Pole Barn Final Price Check

Instead of finding the older thread, I'll just make a new one.

Got the final price on the building, the dirt work I'm doing with another guy, here is my unofficial final price;

40X80X16 building
6" slab (2 beams running the length of the building 12"x20"x80' which will be spaced apart 20' centered in the building, with 5- 12"x20" beams running perpendicularly between the 80' center beams, along with 12x24 perimeter beam) This will provide plenty of support for your equipment in the "drive through" area.

We will have 6x6 posts set to 72" deep in the running wall posts and 8x8 posts set to 96" deep on the corners and door frame posts with the door posts going to the top of the truss.

Walls and roof to have radiant barrier.

3/12 pitch roof woth manufactured trusses with gerts on 24" centers on walls and roof, (all gerts to be joist hangered in place)

Total for all $ 64,225.00

Additional items

16x80 lean to 6x6 posts on 16' centers with 3x12 beam on 2/12 pitch. Framed with all treated lumber

$5,400.00 per lean too

I am waiting on confirmation on the use of the aluminum wire for a quote on the underground and meter/breaker panel.

If we can use the aluminum the price will be $2,650.00
for a 400 amp underground wire 400 amp meter can ( this allows you to add another 200 amp panel later.) and a 200 amp breaker panel.

So what do ya'll think? How bad are these prices? More than I wanted to spend, that's for sure.

i'm just curious, why so deep with the posts ??

That's to meet the wind requirements of coastal south-east Texas, we do get hurricanes every once in a while.

Those prices seem pretty fair in comparison to what we did two years ago. Ours was a little larger, no lean to, and I have not done the floor yet. Yours cost a lot more but it has a lot of bells and whistles. We have engineered posts made from 2x6. We used a local guy who does nothing but barns. He had found larger solid posts do not always get preservative all the way to the center...and he showed me. I was good with it. I have 2x6 framed poultry pens that have the bottom buried. Still solid and I put those in over 20 years ago. You're going to like your shed. I can stand on top of the combine in mine and never a worry about head room. No weather to deal with. Make sure you keep all your cut-offs for cribbing. Can't have too much cribbing.

I will second the post made from 2x6s. They are much stronger and treated all they way thru, not to mention you only have to pay for the treated boards in the ground build the rest with regular lumber.

For all of your long/large beams, are they going to be Steel, Timber, or Glue-Lam ? - All of the large open-span buildings that used wooden beams that I've seen (warehouses) have used Glue-Lam. I asked the installers one time, and they said that the Glue-Lam is stronger than standard solid timber beams.

Just curious; Thanks !


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Were planning on just using pre-manufactured wood trusses. I believe they are just made from dimensional lumber.

The lean too posts are 16' on center? How far apart are the 6x6 posts in the walls of your shed?

I don't remember exactly, I belive 8'.

Whoo that's more than I paid for my farm 29 acres house two barns two ponds and creek.

So how are things in Bosnia these days?

Have you priced metal buildings? Whirlwind in Houston will custom make your building in a kit and you erect it. It will be all steel so the post will never rot off. My 40x30 with 20x30 carport only cost $11000. Obviously this price doesn't include the slab, erection or electric but it doesn't hurt to price it.

I don't understand these "beams" you mention ? It sounds like they are in the 6" slab ?

The span between the lean to posts seems kind of big - but that's just me.

That's funny......

The last building that I had built was another Morton 60 X 120 X 16. Six inch floor with approach, composition roof and Electric Aircraft Bi-fold Door and it was right at $80,000.00. That door was a ten thousand dollar option. All put up and completed in just over a weeks time. Most efficient group of workers that I have ever seen. Every move they made accomplished something. Also cleaned up every scrap of litter. I will include a picture but you will have to overlook the tractors as it is the only picture that I have.

don't put post in the ground use plates in the cement and bolt post to plates that way they will never rot or be pulled out by the wind.but it's your shed so do as you wish

I engineered the 400 amp setup for my buddies farm, works out nice to have 1 meter for the farm.