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Pole Barn Builders in Northern Colorado

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Pole Barns

Pole Barns for Northern Colorado

Equipment, campers and hay left in the open pay for it in Northern Colorado: hail dents hoods and shreds tarps, the sun cracks seats and hoses, and spring snow buries whatever is left. A pole barn fixes that simply: a strong roof on posts set deep in the ground, with as much wall as the job needs. People shopping for one usually want covered storage for a tractor, trailers, a camper or feed, or a general-use barn they can work in, sized right and framed for the wind on their property.

From our base in Ault, on US-85 about 10 miles north of Greeley, Northern Colorado Barn Builders handles pole barn construction across Larimer, Weld and Adams counties, from irrigated farm ground around Eaton, Platteville and Keenesburg to acreage near Wellington, Berthoud and Bennett and foothill parcels out toward Livermore. Each barn is custom-designed, and the whole job stays with us: we grade the site, auger the post holes, set laminated columns on footings below the frost line, lift the trusses into place, run the purlins and girts, then hang the metal roof, siding, wainscot and doors.

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Post-frame building framing in progress: tall wood posts, girts and orange-painted headers with a telehandler in the middle, under a cloudy sky
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What's included

What goes into our pole barns

  • 01

    Enclosed storage barns

    Fully sided pole barns with sliding or overhead doors that keep tractors, trailers, mowers and feed dry and out of the hail.

  • 02

    Open-sided pole barns

    A metal roof on posts with one or more sides left open, for drive-through access to hay, equipment or a stock trailer.

  • 03

    Pole barn garages

    Vehicle bays with overhead doors and a concrete slab for trucks, side-by-sides and everything that has outgrown the house garage.

  • 04

    Lean-tos

    A lean-to along one or both eaves adds covered space for firewood, a camper or animals, framed in with a new barn or tied onto an existing one.

  • 05

    Posts set for Front Range ground

    Footings go below the frost line the county sets and are designed for the expansive clay common here, with grading that keeps irrigation and snowmelt water away from the posts.

  • 06

    Metal panels and wind-rated doors

    Metal roof and wall panels that hold up to hail, plus wainscot, windows, walk doors, and sliding or overhead doors rated for wind.

Real work · not stock photos

Our pole barns work

Photos from our own jobs.

  • Post-frame building framing in progress: tall wood posts, girts and orange-painted headers with a telehandler in the middle, under a cloudy sky
  • Large red post-frame barn with white trim and a white roof, a wide sliding door on the long side, next to pipe corrals on open grassland under a blue sky with clouds
  • Interior of a large clear-span post-frame barn: wood posts and girts, long rows of wood roof trusses, white wall wrap and a dirt floor
  • Interior of a post-frame barn showing tall wood posts, girts, roof trusses and a sliding door opening along the far wall, with a packed dirt floor
  • Long red post-frame barn with white trim, a band of clear daylight panels below the eaves and large sliding doors on the side and end, on graded dirt with pines behind
  • Red post-frame garage with tan trim and a galvanized roof, two open door bays on the gable end, on a hillside among ponderosa pines with mountains behind
  • Red post-frame garage with tan trim and a charcoal wainscot, two open door bays, among ponderosa pines in late-afternoon light
  • White post-frame barn with a black roof, a large sliding door with black X trim, a cupola and a lower side wing, on a dirt yard beside rail fencing in low sun
  • White post-frame barn with a black roof, cupola, black X-braced sliding door and windows with black shutters along the side, in low evening sun
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Ideas for your project

More pole barns ideas

  • Round hay bales stored under an open-sided barn roof
  • White pole barn at the end of a gravel farm road
  • Group of metal-sided farm barns in a field

How it works

How a pole barn job works

  1. 1

    Free quote and site check

    Let us know what the barn will hold, about how big it should be and where it goes. A local builder gets back to you with pricing and checks the slope, soil and access.

  2. 2

    Design and permit check

    We engineer the barn for the snow and wind loads your county sets and check the permit rules for your parcel, including whether an agricultural exemption applies.

  3. 3

    Grading and posts

    We level and grade the pad, lay out the building square, drill the post holes and set the laminated columns on their footings.

  4. 4

    Frame, roof and walls

    Trusses, purlins and girts go up next, then the metal roof, the siding you picked, the doors and the trim.

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Local pages

Pole Barns by town

Local details and nearby towns for the places we build most.

Also serving Ault, Pierce, Lucerne, Nunn, Galeton, Timnath, Garden City, Kersey, La Salle, Milliken, Gilcrest, Laporte and more →

Questions

Pole Barns FAQs

What sets the price of a pole barn?

Four things, mostly: the footprint, how tall the eaves are, how many walls are closed in and what the site needs. An open-sided barn costs less than one the same size with walls, overhead doors and a slab, and heavier snow or wind loads call for bigger trusses and closer purlins. Fill out the form or call, and a local builder gets back to you with pricing for your barn.

How do you build a pole barn for Colorado wind, snow and hail?

We engineer every barn for the design snow and wind loads the county sets for that site. On open plains ground around Greeley, Fort Lupton and Brighton the wind rarely lets up for long, so bracing and wind-rated doors matter; in the foothills and in mountain towns such as Estes Park and Livermore, heavier snow and strong downslope winds call for sized trusses and closer purlins and girts. For hail, metal panels are a strong choice, and heavier-gauge panels are worth a look.

Does a pole barn need a building permit?

Most do, but it depends on the county and how the barn is used. Larimer, Weld and Adams counties and the cities each set their own rules, and some counties exempt qualifying agricultural buildings from a building permit. We check what applies to your parcel and pull the permit when one is needed.

Can a pole barn have a concrete floor?

Yes. You can leave the floor as compacted gravel for hay and equipment, or have us pour a slab for a garage, a work area or anything on wheels. We pour the slab ourselves, designed for the soil and graded to drain, and it can cover the whole barn or just the bays that need it.

Can I turn a pole barn into a house?

Yes. A pole barn framed and finished as a home is a barndominium, and we build those too, finished inside or left as a dried-in shell. The framing, insulation and permit for a home differ from a storage barn, so if anyone will live in it, say so when you ask for a quote.

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