The exterior appearance of a shop building is nice to have and a good strong frame is essential – these improved pole barn kits – post-frame buildings provide both – but the real test of a shop is the quality of the interior.

How easy is it to install a workbench?  Can I build in a loft for storage easily and inexpensively?  Can I insulate it easily & effectively, either when we build it, or sometime later?  What about wall partitions?  How about putting up a piece of peg-board, to hang stuff on? (Ever tried that with a steel-framed building?)

The answers are yes, yes, yes, yes and yes, even by an amateur.  Wood framing is very easy to work with, for all those things – it’s that simple.

Are steel-framed buildings stronger?  No, wood frames are at least as strong.  In extremely heavy snow years here in northern Montana, many steel-framed buildings have collapsed – the wooden post-framed buildings survived.

Are steel-framed buildings safer, as far as fire is concerned?  No – A wooden frame is not going to burst into flames, any more than a steel one.  It’s always something in the interior that causes a fire.

There is one difference.  Ask a fireman about this.  They’ll likely tell you that if a steel framed building has a fire in it, get out promptly, because the roof beams will fail as soon as they get hot.  The columns and beams in a post-frame will burn for a long time before they fail, providing time to remove contents, and also to extinguish a fire.

We’ve sold many improved pole barn kits – post-frames to farmers & ranchers who already had a steel-framed as their first shop.  They chose a post-frame for the next and subsequent ones, because they see the advantages of the wood framing.

This sharp looking monitor building is used for a shop on a potato farm in Kalispell, MT .The 40 foot wide center isle is plenty of room for working on equipment and the lean‐to’s ( left and right) add space for an office, storage and a restroom. Our improved pole barn kits make standard metal building look like boxes. This unique design is elegant yet simple to put together with our improved pole barn kits.

Again, this building utilizes a pair of lean-to’s on each side of the main building to have the monitor look. This configuration is simple for us yet with a standard pole barn kit or standard metal building, you would be looking at costs that would make the building way too expensive.

This small commercial building takes advantage of the ability of our improved pole bar kits design to put doors in the endwall that are higher than the sidewall. With standard pole barn kits or metal building kits you will not be able to do this cost effectively due to the design characteristics of those other pole barn and metal building kits.

Airplane hangars are an easy adaptation for a post-frame building.  We beef up one end-wall beam to accommodate the big door, and rest of the building has all the other benefits of the wood-framed building.  The frames are strong enough to take any kind of hangar door – slider, bi-fold, or whatever.

This 60×65 Airplane Hanger, with a 50 ft. bi‐fold door, is in Spicewood TX, our improved pole barn kits framing system is ideal for airplane hangers or any building that requires a large opening in the endwall.

Keep looking around, You will not find better building kits than our improved pole barn kits. You can look anywhere in America and you will not find a building with the versatility, strength, ease of erection or quality of engineering at these prices, Just contact us today with the form below and we will get you a quote on the building of your dreams with the additions to make your building a one of a kind.