Very Nice Gary. Beautiful Coach as well! Tell us some stats on the Barn. Width, height, length. Looks like an engineered Frame with Wood siding. Did you install a pit or do you have a ramp to get under the bus. Is the slab six inches or more. and so on.
Gary & Lise Deinhard, 2003 Elegant Lady Liberty, Dbl slide
Gary, love the barn. This is a very timely discussion since we are looking at buildings right now. Yesterday via e-mail came the first quote on a metal building. No sides, concrete footings, no concrete floor, and obviously no heating was estimated to cost $32,800! OUCH! Anyone have cost estimates of non-steel buildings?
Oh, by the way Gary, I noticed that you hail from SW Virginia, God's country. That may be so but we live in the sandhills area of eastern North Carolina. God may visit SW Virginia but he lives in our part of eastern North Carolina!
Otto, come on now! you know god is all knowing, and I think it might get a tad to hot for him down there, It's cooler here and he can look down on things so to speak, I just sold my house in Southport this spring. Now for barn spec's. I had a D-3 cat dozer and prepared the site myself, contractor did the rest with my help " a little " Slab 4000psi with wire and # 4 rebar, I have two floor drains, Installed a roll up door, Used sizzor truss so I could walk on top of bus with out bending or crawling, I used T-111 for the outside and strips every 16" to give it a barn look and on the side that you can't see in the photo's are two fake barn doors, 25yr metal roof grey, door is 14' with remote openers, building is 50' x 20' I can put the slides out inside with no problem getting around, 3" insulation, water and sewer and full hook ups outside for guest. The site was originally an old home site and I utilized the well and the septic tank. I have a iron removal unit on well 12 pm iron and a deionizer for spotless wash. Now all this was 28,500. I did have to pay for the roll up door which was 2400.00. Now if I had it to do over it would have been 30x60 with a pit! Construction was done in 2006, also the barn is heated, with three rows of lights one in the center of roof and the other two on the sides lighting is very good we had to play with this to get it just right. Time to construct one month
Gary, Thank you for the information. It certainly gives me much needed guidance. About 10 years ago we put up a 50X40 metal building that would have been perfect for our RV needs. At that time I had zero plans on ever purchasing an RV(Sometime I'll tell you our RV rental adventure that we thought permanently excluded us from the RV world. It is one of those stories that must be told in person). The only problem with our metal building is the height! It is a couple of feet too low and cannot be changed.
We love Southport but nothing beats the Pinehurst area. Most of the time they answer the phone at Pinehurst Resort with, "Welcome to Pinehurst where every day is Christmas."
LP gas heaters 2ea with thermo controlled fans, it gets cold here in the winter 0 or below several times heaters keep it at 55 even with those temps. We are usually at our place in Riverbend in the winter but this year will be an exception our 15 year old lab can't travel any more, so we will stay here on the mountain till the time comes. Gary
Very nice bus barn. Ours is a pole barn as well. Constructed by Mortan buildings to match our horse barn and arena. It measures 30' by 60' and has in floor heat. drain but no water or bathroom since it's just next door in the stall barn. Unfortunately it was considerably north of $30,000.
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Gary & Lise Deinhard, 2003 Elegant Lady Liberty, Dbl slide
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