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rockies
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# Posted: 26 Jul 2018 07:07pm
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Here's an interesting site. They sell kits, or you can buy the plans. They also offer free material lists.
https://jamaicacottageshop.com/shop/working-out-house/
https://jamaicacottageshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/materials-list-outhouse-wor king-4x4.pdf?x74439
https://jamaicacottageshop.com/shop/salt-box/
https://jamaicacottageshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/materials-list-saltbox-4x8. pdf?x74439
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rockies
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# Posted: 26 Jul 2018 07:14pm
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I like their 16X Barn.
https://jamaicacottageshop.com/shop/16x20-barn/
Their Vermont Cottage is quite nice too.
https://jamaicacottageshop.com/shop/vermont-cottage-a/
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Gary O
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# Posted: 28 Jul 2018 01:19am
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I do like the looks of that Vermont cottage
Couldn't readily locate the price
little help here, rock
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rockies
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# Posted: 28 Jul 2018 05:57pm
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Underneath the "Pardon Our Dust" webpage update box there are a couple of drop down boxes. In the first one you select the type of cottage kit you want (frame only, precut package, 3 season, 4 season) and then under that box you choose the size of cottage you want. The price then comes up.
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Gary O
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# Posted: 28 Jul 2018 10:05pm
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Sure does
waaaay too spendy for what you get
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ILFE
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# Posted: 29 Jul 2018 02:20am - Edited by: ILFE
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I have a number of construction resources I have collected, hosted on one of my cloud accounts: Home & Cabin Construction
Some of my personal favorites are in the Cabin Floor Plans folder, and the Gambrel Barn Plans in the Barn Plans folder.
The best part is, they are free.
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Borrego
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# Posted: 29 Jul 2018 03:34pm
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Quoting: ILFE The best part is, they are free.
Free is good...!
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rockies
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# Posted: 29 Jul 2018 06:29pm
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Of course, the price you looked at was probably the turn key 4 season package. Buying just the frame is a lot less, especially if you can get their free list of additional materials needed and buy it all at your local lumber yard.
I suppose the various options they offer (frame only, shell, 3 season, 4 season, plans, etc) are more for people who want a tried and tested building that meets code and can arrive on one truck and be quickly assembled.
Most people can do the exterior siding, shingling and interior finishing themselves but feel intimidated by all the engineering and code requirements for putting up the frame. Ordering a complete frame, all numbered and pre-tested in their companies construction yard takes a lot of the guess work out of building a new cabin.
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Gary O
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# Posted: 30 Jul 2018 01:09am
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Quoting: rockies Of course, the price you looked at was probably the turn key 4 season package
no matter the package...they're waaaaay overpriced
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rockies
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# Posted: 30 Jul 2018 06:14pm
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Really? I don't think $4938 is waaaay too much for a timber frame barn (frame only). To get the complete barn in a precut package is $10384.
By the time I order all the materials and then cut it all to size and assemble it I'm probably in the same price range. But even if I'm not, it's nice that it's been built a dozen or more times before and all the kinks have been worked out.
Here's a short video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEjD2Y4yR48&feature=youtu.be
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Gary O
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# Posted: 30 Jul 2018 11:55pm
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Quoting: rockies Really? I don't think $4938 is waaaay too much for a timber frame barn (frame only). To get the complete barn in a precut package is $10384.
15x20 fame only is around twice the price of material
notice the shipping is not in the price
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rockies
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# Posted: 31 Jul 2018 07:07pm
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Perhaps, but all the materials have been prepared and are ready to assemble the moment it arrives at your site.
Shipping is free for pre-cut kits within the continental USA and eastern Canada.
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Gary O
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# Posted: 1 Aug 2018 01:17am
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Quoting: rockies Perhaps, but all the materials have been prepared and are ready to assemble the moment it arrives at your site.
I could buy a very good saw with what I'd save by shopping the materials myself
a very good saw
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NorthRick
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# Posted: 1 Aug 2018 12:45pm
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It's the old time versus money issue. I think it boils down to which you have more of for building a cabin.
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rockies
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# Posted: 1 Aug 2018 06:28pm
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It also boils down to engineering. A lot of people have never built a building before, and often times they do all the drawings on graph paper and then head off to the lumber yard. Then they have a lot of questions about the beam and rafter sizing, how to frame the walls and headers, etc.
If I had no previous experience I would choose a frame kit and finish the exterior and interior myself. The sooner the frame is up the sooner you are dried in.
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Gary O
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# Posted: 2 Aug 2018 01:38am
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Quoting: rockies If I had no previous experience I would choose a frame kit and finish the exterior and interior myself. The sooner the frame is up the sooner you are dried in.
No argument
It's another way when there seems no way
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