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Pole Barns, Shops and Metal Buildings

Post-frame buildings for storage, a shop, or a garage, built on your site by a licensed Minnesota contractor — and doors, windows and lean-tos added to the pole building you already have.

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Post-frame is the fastest way to a big, dry, usable building on rural and acreage lots north of the metro. We build them, add to them, and fix the doors, windows and trim on the ones that are already standing.

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Pole Barns jobs we do (22)

New construction home interior with upgraded window and door trim in the Twin Cities

Add Overhang to an Existing Pole Barn — Eave and Gable Overhangs

The barn was built with the roof steel ending right at the wall. Rain runs down the siding, snow piles at the doors, and it looks unfinished. An overhang fixes both.

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Two-story stucco and stone Minnesota home with new casement windows across the front, lawn freshly cut

Convert Sliding Barn Door to Overhead Door — Opening Reframed

The sliding door freezes to the ground in January and lets the snow blow in the rest of the winter. We reframe that opening for a sectional overhead door that seals, rolls up on a track and opens with a button.

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Two-story home with shake gables, new grid windows and a glass-panel entry door under a covered porch

Gutters on a Pole Barn — Added to an Existing Barn or Shop

Every rain dumps a sheet of water off the barn roof right along the wall, splashing the steel, soaking the post bases and washing out the gravel. Gutters fix the water side; setting them right fixes the snow side.

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Arched-top white gridded window in a stone-veneer gable beside the front entry

Horse Stall Construction — Stalls Built in a Pole Barn

An empty pole barn you want to bring horses home to, or a new barn with the stalls, aisle and tack room built the way you would lay it out — framed by a Minnesota post-frame builder.

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Installer setting a new window into an exterior wall opening

Install Pole Barn Steel Siding I Bought — Labor-Only Panel Install

You found a deal on steel at Menards or Fleet Farm, or the color you wanted only comes from one supplier. The panels are on pallets in the yard. We put them on the building.

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Brick home front with a new arched grid picture window, flanking windows and the front entry door

Insulate a Pole Barn — Insulation and Steel Liner Panels Installed

A cold shop, a roof that drips on the truck every spring morning, or a pole barn you want to heat this winter — insulated, sealed and lined in steel so it is a room, not a shed.

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Lean-To Addition on a Pole Barn — Extend the Roof Off Your Shop

Your pole barn is full and the camper, tractor or hay is still outside — a lean-to roof off the side is the cheapest square footage you can add to a building that is already standing.

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Metal Shop Building and Detached Garage — Pole Building Contractor

A shop you can heat, park in and work in all winter — post-frame steel building with a concrete floor, insulation and doors sized for what you drive, built by a licensed Minnesota contractor.

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Overhead Door Installation in a Pole Barn — Framing, Jambs and Trim

A sliding door that freezes shut, a shop with no way to get the camper in, or a new pole barn that needs its big door — the opening framed, set and trimmed so the door seals and the track has something to hang from.

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Pole Barn Builder — Post-Frame Construction on Your Property

You have the land and you need a big, dry building on it — storage, animals, equipment or a hobby shop — built by a licensed Minnesota contractor who is on site every day.

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Pole Barn Concrete Floor — Base, Vapor Barrier, Forms and the Pour

A gravel floor you cannot roll a jack on, a dirt floor that turns to mud in April, or a new barn that needs its slab — the floor prepped right and poured as one job with one contractor to call.

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Pole Barn Condensation Fix — Stop the Roof Steel From Dripping

Frost on the underside of the roof every clear cold night, then a rain shower inside at ten in the morning when the sun hits the steel. It is not a leak, and it has a fix that starts with air, not insulation.

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Pole Barn Door Installation — Walk Doors, Sliding Doors and Windows

The walk door on your pole barn is rusted through, the shop is dark, or you need a second way in — we cut, frame and set doors and windows into steel pole-building walls so they seal and swing.

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Pole Barn Post Rotted at Ground — Repair Without Tearing It Down

The bottom of a post in the old barn is soft or gone at the ground line, the steel is bowed, and a corner has settled. Here is how rotted posts are repaired one at a time.

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Pole Barn Roof Leaking at Screws — Fasteners Replaced, Laps Sealed

Drips on the floor under the barn roof in a row, rust streaks from the screw heads, nails backed out of the ribs. The steel is fine; the fasteners are done.

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Pole Barn Sliding Door Repair — Track, Rollers, Guides and Panels

The big door takes two people to move, drags on the gravel, and swings out in every wind. New trolleys, a straight track and a bottom guide, and it slides with one hand again.

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Pole Barn Storage Loft — A Mezzanine Built Inside an Existing Barn

The floor is full and the space above the trucks is empty. A storage loft over one or two bays puts the seasonal stuff, the tires and the totes up where they are out of the way and still reachable.

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Pole Barn Storm Damage Repair — Bent Steel Panels, Trim and Purlins

The wind peeled a run of roof steel off the east side, the hail dimpled the rest, and the trim is hanging by one screw — repaired to match, with the paperwork your insurance file needs.

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Pole Barn Truss Broken From Snow Load — Shored and Repaired

Late winter, a heavy snow and a crack you heard from the house. A truss in the barn has a split chord and the roof line has a dip. Stay out from under it; here is what happens next.

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Pole Barn Wainscot Replacement — New Steel on the Bottom Band

Rust creeping up from the grade board, dents from the mower and the tractor bucket, hail scars on the lower panels: the bottom band of steel takes the beating, and it can be replaced without touching the wall above it.

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Pole Barn Walk Door Replacement — Rotted Jamb and Framing Rebuilt

The walk door on the pole barn drags on the floor, the bottom of the jamb is soft, and the steel trim around it is rusting through.

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Re-Roof an Old Pole Barn With New Steel — Tear Off and Re-Sheet

The old barn roof is rusted at the laps, pocked with hail, and leaking at every row of nails. The frame is still good. Here is how it gets new steel.

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