Ready to build the perfect custom pole barn for your property? The process is an exciting one – especially when you realize how many unique pole barn options you have to choose from! If you’re still in the planning phase for your barn, you may want some more details about these popular pole barn options and what they mean for your future barn.
Read on to learn about how you can customize your pole barn and what these features mean for the final build!
Your Size & Dimensions
When it comes to choosing the right options for your pole barn, you always want to start with the size and dimensions. How you use your barn will be dependent on its core size and shape! Smaller pole barns can be used for all sorts of hobbies and personal storage, but if you plan to house animals, large agricultural equipment or tall vehicles like RVs, you’ll want to make sure you have the right horizontal and vertical space for your needs!
One of the primary advantages of pole barn design is that the simple principle behind post-frame construction allows them to be massive! If you need a lot of space for a commercial business, horse arena, or anything else you can think of, DIY Pole Barns can help you create as big as 70’ by 200’ and 20’ high!
The best way to get started when it comes to identifying the size and dimensions, you’ll need is to think about everything you might want to accomplish with your pole barn. It’s always easy to find new uses for a barn after it’s built – so going a bit bigger than you think you need can be a good system to avoid feeling limited.
Types & Number of Doors or Windows
If you want a secure pole barn with one main entrance, or a beautifully open barn with natural lighting pouring in from every angle, it’s completely up to you! When designing a barn with our Instant Quote tool, you can choose from a variety of options for doors and windows, including:
Large Doors – Do need one large opening, or multiple large doors? Pole barns can be built with automatic doors in mind, sliding barn doors, or even just left open!
Entry Doors – Create multiple entrances or exits from your pole barn with pre-cut door openings all around your pole barn.
Windows – Natural lighting can make a pole barn feel like home, but not every pole barn needs to be lined with windows. Whatever your vision,, DIY Pole Barns can make it happen!
Specialized Doors – Thinking of Dutch doors or bale doors for your stable or animal barn? These popular pole barn options are available in our Instant Quote tool too!
Like any other option, you’ll want to spend time considering how you plan to use your pole barn. If you’ll be bringing in a lot of large machinery or vehicles, you’ll want at least one large opening for a door of your choice!
Consider a Lean-To for Your Pole Barn
Not everything needs to go inside, even if you want to keep it protected from direct sunlight and rain. That’s where lean-tos shine! These unique pole barn options are structures built off the roof of your barn, stabilized by additional beams, providing a bit of extra overhead cover but are otherwise completely open!
Lean-tos are popular for a bit of extra storage, keeping you dry when you need to step outside, or as the primary overhead protection for a porch. Hobby shops, mancaves and garages can all benefit from a lean-to for making use of space outside the barn that may otherwise be considered “dead space” like areas along a fence line.
Many pole barn owners find their lean-tos to be critical for protecting larger equipment that they want to keep readily accessible. Anything that’s fine to be stored outside, but you wouldn’t want directly under a downpour, are ideal for storing under a lean-to. They’re a great place for outside furniture. It keeps it dry while making sure it’s only a few steps away when you want to enjoy a beautiful day outside on your property.
Pole Barn Insulation
Pole barns can be anything you want, from garages to horse barns and everything in between. But no matter what use you get of your barn, they’re all shelters. That means protecting you against the environment whether it’s the dog days of summer or the dead of winter.
Insulating a pole barn is just as easy, if not easier, than insulating any other type of structure. Given its open interior, you can add insulation around the entirety of your barn and close it off by hanging drywall or using additional barriers that suit your needs!
Not every pole barn needs insulation, making it a common option for you to invest in when planning out the overall features you want. If you plan to spend a lot of time inside your barn working or relaxing, you’ll want to make sure it’s easier to control the temperature! Insulation comes in many forms, and varies for how you would insulate your walls versus your ceiling.
Take a look at our helpful infographic to learn more about the possibilities for insulating your pole barn.
Post Rot Protection
The posts of your pole barn are the most important parts of the build – it’s what they’re named after! Every pole serves the critical function of ensuring the stability and integrity of the entire barn. And while pole barn posts are exceptionally resilient, they’re still made of wood, which makes them potentially susceptible to problems that any wood frame can have.
Post rot protection is an additional pole barn option that helps you add an extra layer of defense to your posts. Any properly built pole barn will stand the test of time, but post rot protection can help you mitigate some of the long-term maintenance needs or problems that may occur under extreme circumstances.
Exterior Upgrades
Like any structure, your pole barn will help define your property. Exterior options on your pole barn can help you put the finishing touches that make it look like the barn of your dreams. Any barn built using DIY Pole Barn’s Instant Quote tool can benefit from the variety of exterior pole barn options we offer:
- Continuous Ridge Vent
- Color Options
- Wall Sheathing
- Roof Sheathing
- Cupola & Weathervane
- Wainscoting
- Skylight Wall Panels
- Metal Roofing
- Customized Siding Thickness
- Snow Bars
These exterior options are both functional and aesthetically pleasing. No matter the purpose of your pole barn, you can take pride in knowing the exterior will reflect the premier quality that goes into every inch of a barn by DIY Pole Barns.
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