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Turnkey Barndominiums or Post Frame Homes?

A new sturdy home building method gives us today’s sturdy post frame homes and barndominiums. In some parts of the country, we hear of the shouse or shome. You may not notice the difference during a country drive along the Rockies. Why are so many property owners choosing residential pole barns instead of stick-built homes? Let’s see.

Consider Turnkey Post Frame Homes

Custom pole barn homes go up faster and easier. They also offer wide open spans and allow many activities under one roof. Most of you prefer turnkey services. Sapphire Construction, Inc. right here in Douglas County, Colorado offers turnkey services. You’re busy people or snowbirds.

Sapphire Construction will get it all done for you–turnkey. Permits, excavation, septic, plumbing, electric, driveways. Just conceptualize, refine, order, and then sit back until they get the keys to their new barndominiums.

Do It Yourself Home Kit

Others of you want us to simply design and prep your custom homes but you want to do the interior work yourselves. For you, we would deliver and install the post frame home building kit and you can get to work finishing out the inside.

Post Frame Building Methods – Benefits

• Cost savings: Post frame does not require a foundation, a cost savings. The distinctive framing goes 8 feet on center. Large posts and trusses transfer the loads into the ground, or a concrete slab.
• Superior energy efficiency: The large spans between framing allows more space for insulation.
• Large open spans: The design does not require interior support walls because the posts and trusses form one structure. This allows for large spaces and wider openings for windows and doors.
• Faster: The shell goes up faster, reducing the time and costs. Sapphire Construction also partners with Lester Buildings, where engineers calculate the exact numbers needed for any building site. We don’t need to take trips to suppliers because they engineer total building kits.
• Strong: Pole buildings support heavier snow and wind loads.
• Minimal excavation: The building site requires less excavation than stick-built home building.
• Minimal maintenance: Steel panels reduce maintenance requirements.

More Considerations

How will you decide whether to go with stick-built or post-frame construction? If you are in a subdivision, find out if the covenants restrict post frame buildings. Check with your county and city zoning.

Then establish a budget and financing. The simplest home may come out to $150/square foot and depending on your choices, you can push that all the way up to $450/square foot. Some lenders and experts who are familiar with post frame buildings.

Sapphire Construction, Inc. – Building Contractor

We’ll guide the project beginning to finish. If we can build you a high-quality post frame home somewhere around Douglas County, Colorado, you’ll learn exactly why we partner with Lester Buildings.

Call Allen Randa, contractor and owner of Sapphire Construction, Inc., at (303) 619-7213.