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So just bought our first house which has no garage. I've been doing some looking around some ideas for a kit for a garage/ pole building kit. Do you guys have any recommendations on a budget friendly two car building.
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1) Check a regional Craigslist (adhuntr) to see if you can find a used building that must be moved.
You will have local resources that are better for your region, but for a benchmark, this PNW pole barn company is good comprehensive pricing and options. Welcome to M&W Building Supply Co. (You can get pretty good transport rates on uship.com, might consider that, or a hotshotter / RV delivery person who is deadheading east.)
too bad you already built the house... as DW might get spoiled and expect a house in the future, rather than a 'barndominium'
(But you will appreciate being able to bang around and do grinding, body work, and wood planing / routing all hours of the night in your separate shop!)
Pole barns are nice for covering large areas with minimal materials. They are also nice for having wide openings. The problem comes when you want to enclose a pole barn. While it can be and is done all the time, you have to frame out seperate walls. So IMO you're better off just pouring a slab and stick framing the walls from the start and skipping the big poles for smaller garage type structures.
A pole barn starts to make sense when you need a large area covered quickly and cheaply, but for a two car garage, I'd just conventionally frame it out. It's probably also cheaper and faster to conventionally frame.
I do like pole barns more, just not for a two car garage. I also like the newer style quonset hut arched metal buildings. You get a lot of space enclosed very cheaply that way. Probably won't fly in a residential type area though.
Check out ebay for steel buildings and they have some free shipping deals on some.
Go to Menards - there are two in the Grand Rapids area, one in Wyoming and one in Comstock Park - and hit the "Design It Center" kiosk over by the building materials desk. You can play around with construction styles, sizes, and other options, and get a material quote on each one right there.
We lost our garage in the California 2015 Valley Fire. We ended up replacing our garage with a Garco metal building. We found a contractor on Craigslist selling Garco buildings and he erected the garage and a shop building for us. Overall it was a great experience. We ended up replacing our burned down barn with a metal barn that we purchased from North Coast Barns.
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