Hey all,
I'd posted a message a couple years ago (hard to believe) about a new shop project. Well, I'm one of those "slow planners." But the time has come--this summer, come **** or high water, I'm gonna build the darn thing!
Unfortunately, I have also gone from being reasonably fit and healthy (a few short months ago) to now having some back problems that'll make some of the construction difficult. So...I wonder if anyone from Eastern North Carolina has worked with area contractors who'd be interested in an outbuilding project. The Greenville/Farmville area (where I am) is growing so quickly that there are lots of construction crews working on houses. Is there such thing as a "barn" specialist?
I have a pretty particular idea what I'm looking to build--I even have some architectural drawings. (I'm basically copying a friend's three-bay English-style horse barn.) And I'd like to do as much of the work myself as possible (or at least, myself plus a "crew" of two or three friends)--I can't afford to have the whole thing built professionally. But I'm frankly anxious about by ability to do some of the bigger stuff: the bigger beams, the trusses, and even putting up the sheathing.
Has anyone (a) had any experience "sharing" the work with a professional crew, or (b) had experience doing the general contracting on a semi-big outbuilding project, but hiring out bits and pieces of the work?
I'd posted a message a couple years ago (hard to believe) about a new shop project. Well, I'm one of those "slow planners." But the time has come--this summer, come **** or high water, I'm gonna build the darn thing!
Unfortunately, I have also gone from being reasonably fit and healthy (a few short months ago) to now having some back problems that'll make some of the construction difficult. So...I wonder if anyone from Eastern North Carolina has worked with area contractors who'd be interested in an outbuilding project. The Greenville/Farmville area (where I am) is growing so quickly that there are lots of construction crews working on houses. Is there such thing as a "barn" specialist?
I have a pretty particular idea what I'm looking to build--I even have some architectural drawings. (I'm basically copying a friend's three-bay English-style horse barn.) And I'd like to do as much of the work myself as possible (or at least, myself plus a "crew" of two or three friends)--I can't afford to have the whole thing built professionally. But I'm frankly anxious about by ability to do some of the bigger stuff: the bigger beams, the trusses, and even putting up the sheathing.
Has anyone (a) had any experience "sharing" the work with a professional crew, or (b) had experience doing the general contracting on a semi-big outbuilding project, but hiring out bits and pieces of the work?