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I am also building a 36’ x 36’ barn with a lean on only one side (and located in the Midwest). Just for the shell material I am at approximately $10,000 (not including concrete, electrical, stalls, insulation, etc), so I would be super surprised if you could find it built for that price. Good luck![/QUOTE]
My husband said this is probably accurate and reasonable. Steel and lumber prices have gone up recently, with more homes being built it raises demand. Height of walls, 10-12-14ft will make a difference in costs. Price of doors and windows can greatly add to the cost if you want anything but the least expensive sliding models.
He said to check out some of the kit buildings that lumberyards sell, they can get you a building cheaper at times.
We just put up a lean-to on his workshop. Needed “only” two metal sides, roof and a roll-up garage door on one end, cement floor, which cost about $3000 for 11ft wide by 38ft long and we reused the windows from a previous project. He and kids did ALL the labor of posts, putting up wood framing, cement smoothing to get the nice floor.
Hate to let you in on this “little secret”, but you design your barn and it will not have enough room later on. Even with lean tos, because you are just considering what you have NOW to put inside! My BIL the builder told us that when we built our barn years ago it wouldn’t be big enough! We had the little plan, all the “barn stuff” arranged to fit on the drawings. It was going to be the “perfect” barn! I made husband listen, we added on another 20ft in length, so we could hold “anything” in there! Worked for a while, then we changed horse disciplines, needed more room for MORE horses! Sadly now, barn is filled wall to wall, top to bottom when new hay comes in. Redid the stalls to have 4 tie stalls on one side instead of “only” 4 box stalls, so we can keep 6 horses in there now. We HAVE added TWO lean tos on the side, also FULL. Glad we built back then, sure could not afford to build such a barn now! Husband did the stalls and cement floors with some help from BIL, saved a bit on that. But it took a couple years to get that barn finally ready for horses to use. Paid as we did things. Did lots of cost cutting measures, so while not as pretty as many photos shown on COTH, it is a GREAT working barn for daily living, our way of horsekeeping.
And the little barn which husband resurrected when we bought the place, used for the horses first, is also handy for 3 more horses if needed, plus storage for hay or the odds and ends of horsekeeping.
