Hello! We wanted to thank you all for taking the time to watch this video and we appreciate all the kind & encouraging feedback we’ve gotten. We also love hearing about your stories as well! Some of you have been upset with the fact we couldn’t give you an answer on how much we spent. I can assure you, we are not purposefully withholding a price from you all. If we knew, we would let you know! During this time, my husband had multiple projects going on that didn’t have anything to do with our build. He also had 2 businesses to operate. During this time building materials became so volatile that we were faced with halting this project or just “get it done”. We obviously chose to go forward and get it done. During this time we pulled money from our business accounts and personal accounts, as well as financing too. So one could maybe see when there is a lot going on in life sometimes it’s easier (maybe not wise) to just keep moving forward and get it done. We still have not sat down and figured out how much this costed us. It’s an ever revolving door of expenses. We have TONS of projects to complete. Should we sit down and see how much we’re into this? Probably! But we move fast and it works for us. This is our forever home so we don’t look at it as an “investment” like our other ventures. Hopefully everyone can understand! Moving forward we are definitely going to be taking a tally on how much projects cost us so we can share with you!!! Thank you again for the people who have been kind and we appreciate all of your support!
Hi. I know that water problems will make your foundation crack and move if you don't get that water out from around the house. Look up French drains, you are going to need them around the parameter of the barn. Then where all that water is in your field will need what's called a swale. Or drainage ditch to move the water away from the barn as well. Please don't neglect this as it can undermine your whole foundation. Good luck, great start there. God bless you and your family.
Building one now in GA and pretty excited about it. 1800 sq ft, single level for my aging dad (no way I want him going up and down stairs). Thanks for the tips!
I live in Ga as well. If you don't mind me asking what builder are you going through? And do they kits? My wife and I are trying to figure everything out to build ours.
Don't forget to make the doorways and halls wider for your dad and install taller toilets than normal. These have been a lifesaver for my parents and have allowed them to stay in their home into their late 80s.
With anyone else considering spray foam insulation for their home, it works great to seal up a house, but man is it a major fire hazard. Once that stuff ignites, it spreads so fast. It's amazing that the building code has not removed this type of foam.
Definitely echoey... We are still trying to wait it out. We bought our farm/land in 2020 b4 prices skyrocketed. TG. But of course the cost of metal and lumber are insane.
Congratulations you guys! That’s amazing! And yeah the prices were brutal that’s for sure. Not an ideal time to build but I’m sure you don’t regret it!
I thought I was banking with 150k in the bank, about to buy land and looking for options to build a barndo, but I need, build a temporary barndo and I don't even know how much it costs money LOL. I read one article that said top range was about $127 a square foot, then I just got floored with another website that set turn-key "starts" at about $300 square foot, which is well above what it would cost for a typical stick-built home. So I'm back to having no clue if this is even going to be affordable or not. Everyone says its cheaper but I still don't know.
We're just kicking off this build as well, our original plans were 2022'd and we're building a second floor apartment similar to yours. Someday if things calm down we'll be adding on a master suite and using the current living space as our WFH offices. Congrats on the completion, I hope you guys enjoy the new home!
I want one but definitely putting in a hot blast in the garage area and a Woodstove for main living area. I'm worried about fuel costs and the grid crashing. My house roof will be solar panels for electric.
I can't do stairs due to my disability so unless I make an old school elevator I was going to do open concept with ceiling fans uttered maybe a loft idk
I’m seriously considering building a barndo. Appreciate your input for sure. This was the first of your videos I’ve come across. Subbing and will watch more. What State did you build in?
OK it’s been two years since you uploaded this video. If you had it all to do again, would you do it? I’m asking because we’re getting ready to build a barndo on our property as we speak. We are just in the beginning stages of speaking to a architect to do our plans.
I’ll make a video on this very soon! Simple answer: yes we would do it again. Regarding your first comment: it was careless, we know lol. We never claimed to give everyone all of our financial details and we don’t feel like people are entitled to even know that information. Most people aren’t putting their lives on the internet having people demanding for their itemized building list on how much they spent on something. Talking about the financial aspect of this is pointless because we were building during the most fluctuating year for this kind of stuff. Prices were changing DAILY on building materials. Also, it completely depends on where you are building; city and state. Where we build might be pennies compared to where you would build. People think we are being sneaky about this and we aren’t lol. All I know is, we were a family of five with a newborn living in a tiny cabin desperately trying to build it fast so we could move. The desperation outweighed the budget. Obviously, if we could rewind we would’ve wrote it all down. I will make a video explaining more on your question. Happy to help in the ways we can. 😊
Thanks a lot for this review! Are the ceiling cracks definitely related to the pitch/steepness of the roof? This is a problem I’ve been wondering about with barndo’s in general. Thanks again!
i am just saying , maybe should have total price? most people would wanna know how much was it?.& for me, how much is property taxes & insurance? and your bill's must be high! how are you cutting corners, keeping coast down? you must have alot of Ca$h. anyway's nice bardo!
Building a Barndominium and later a separate home is the same thing I'm looking to do (if I can talk my wife into it), but one thing I'm looking at doing different is to use steel frame construction instead of wood. Did you ever consider using steel instead of wood construction?
We're a family wanting to stay connected but separated. We would like to build a barndominum triplex, single level with layout to match our requirements.
Do you get creaks and squeaks from the metal expanding and contracting? I also see that you sent with wood structure instead of metal posts and c-purling's. Would you explain the reason behind why you did that?
No we do not get creaks! And cost was a big reason and the builder we went with specializes in post-frame construction. Also, the purlings are still exposed because we are planning on doing metal inside (shop area) but are waiting it out because of the high prices right now.
We really love your guys content you make, we have watched some of your videos the past few days and we feel like your values align with ours a lot. Coo I upset find another way to contact you but was checking to see if you would be interested in making some kind of collab video at all? Thank you guys for making content that people need to see!
That’s exactly where we were when we bought this property! There was a house on the land and we wanted to fix it up but the township condemned it. We wish you the best with whatever you choose! ☺️
Build new! I tried to talk my parents into building a barndo before they remodeled a rental they had into their retirement home…long story short they wish they had built new.
Did you contract out the individual parts? I read in another comment that you didn’t have plans/blueprints. I haven’t checked other videos yet, but if you didn’t cover that already, I think that would be a great video topic. I appreciate that you shared that you didn’t have numbers in the beginning. Did you ever get around to a ballpark figure ie how much you got from lenders and the home sale and roughly what was left over? Someone posted about these and I needed to look it up, this could be an idea for us, we are in the process of buying land and we’re not going to be able to build a house on it for a bit but this could work!
If a plumbing leak/issue is under the slab they would cut a hole in the slab to make the repairs. Then patch the foundation after any repairs were made.
The only way to prevent cracks in the drywall seams is to first coat all the joints with real Durabond. I say real Durabond (drys brownish in color) because too many people (including the people in sells) refers to the easysand as Durabond. I don't know why they think easysand is Durabond - IT IS NOT! Not many contractors use Durabond because it does take more time to use. But it dries hard, really hard. And it does not sand - though anyone skilled in taping would not need to sand the first coat. It is great stuff and it does not crack like all the other joint compound weather it is easysand or the premix compound that goes much faster. The first coat should always be done with Durabond - which does not shrink either. then can be top coated with whatever. That is the only way, the only way to not have your seems crack.
Maybe I missed it We are strongly considering buikding one and moving from Indiana to east Texas Lindale area and I’m hoping you are available for several questions May I ask what state are you in ? Did you buy a kit or ? Thanks Great video Hope you all are doing well
If there is work going on in the lower shop level, do you find that you hear everything in your living quarters? We are also in MI but having a difficult time finding a local contractor to even begin getting quotes.
You do hear it but it’s not terrible. Not ideal for little kids because it can wake up them up. We’ve gotten used to it! If we were going to permanently live here, I wouldn’t be a huge fan of living higher up just because of that though. Just being honest! 🙂 Goodluck on your journey and hopefully you can find someone soon to get an idea!
This is the exact barndo we are looking for for our motocross training facility. If you'd be willing to sell your building plans PLEASE let me know. Place looks awesome.
We don’t have any and was drawn on a piece of paper 🥲🫠if we would’ve known people would be so interested in it we would’ve had it all set up for people like you! Sorry!!! Thanks for the comment. Sounds awesome!
In our situation we needed a area to put our businesses and also with our living situation we needed to build quickly and this was a cheaper and quicker way of accomplishing both. After we build our forever home we are going to rent this out for an income 😊👍🏻
This was definitely helpful thank you. A question for you, did you get a loan for both the land and the barndo or were they separate loans? Which one in your opinion Is better
Thank you so much! We were able to buy the land with proceeds from our prior house that we sold and a construction loan on the barndo. And honestly, we have no idea which one would be better, just personal preference for people! I feel like so many factors go into that which would make it different for everyone. I’m sorry that’s not a very helpful answer! Haha Thanks for commenting, Nayelie!
Only the living quarters part! Our builder did the shell of the living quarters and studded it all out and we did the rest from there on. We hired a electrician and plumber and then the drywall/paint/flooring my husband did himself.
@@brownsfamilyhomestead we looking to build one in Arizona and was wondering the cost if you don’t mind me asking? How long did it take to build the shell part . Any help would be greatly appreciated
We live near an Amish community that has a separate Truss company, so they made them at a very discounted price compared to other manufacturers. It’s a 12/12 pitch which we needed in order to get 8 foot ceilings in the living area.
How do you not know how much it cost to build that doesn’t make any sense and it seems kind of careless to go into a project like that completely blind.
Very helpfull, thank you! Eastern TN here, just getting our ideas togther to move forward. Radiant heated slab and sprayfoam insulation - definites! Starting with plans so we can stubout water/sewer for connection. Considering a barn company to build the shell then self hire contractors to build it out (probably not a GC or home builder; owner permitted). Is the expense saved worth the headache? Biggest drawback? Thanks again!
Good luck on moving forward! So happy this was helpful to you! We will make a video on our biggest drawbacks we’ve had thus far, soon! Thanks for the comment Eric & Charlotte! Enjoy your journey!
Lmao they literally know a great majority of us come for the price and yet, " I don't know, I'll have to do the numbers". smh should've done it before the damn video!! lol
They 100% know the price. It would be financial suicide to not know unless they had so much "fuck you" money they didnt care to know the price. Like you're trying to tell me that you build this barndo that cost most likely over a hundred thousand dollars AND you're building your dream home IN 3-5 YEARS. Yea they are definitely loaded but didnt want to say it.
