Friday, December 16, 2011

Susan’s Story: “Cheaper isn’t always better”

I received an email from Susan the 5th of December in the AM – sadly I had not heard from Susan in a while (left messaged, emailed, was hoping to see her at the Equine Affaire….but nothing)

The morning of the 5th her urgent marked email said, “After weighing all our options, we decided to hire a local contractor to build our barn. WRONG decision. Since October, all we have is a concrete pad. (a seperate contractor did the concrete work) Now, he doesn’t return our calls and his voice mail is recently full. I am waiting for feedback from my attorney.”

"Wow" – I thought, even if someone ends up going with someone local we always wish them the very best – and we never want the worst to happen to them, and it sounded to me like that is what was happening to Susan!

“In addition, framing lumber has been sitting outside for over 3 weeks.”
“It’s a nightmare.”




“Could the structure that you planned out for us be placed on a monolithic poured concrete base (for the aisle and tack room)? If yes, what time frames would we be looking at to get the structure?”

YES WE CAN! That was the 5th – it’s now the 15th, 10 days later, over 100 emails sent back and forth (some of them about our respective family trips to Florida), we perfected her layout and the barn is in the shop -




more pictures to come.......

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Hurricane Irene 2011


SO! Early part of last week my email starts going crazy with customers worried about their barns/garages with the Hurricane Irene 2011 hitting the east cost over the weekend.





On Wendesday the 24th, one of our great customers in Pawling, NY was mostly concern. The were are the "redzone" she wanted to make sure her barn was rated for the high winds that were coming and that the barn would hold up. I reasured her, right away, that the barn would be just fine, and it was deffently rated high enough to withstand the winds. Today she emailed me, "We are still with out power. I am at a friends house sending this email but the barn was fine. Went through the earthquake and hurricane in one week with out a hitch. When the winds first started to pick up we went down to shut all the top stall doors and the barn was quieter then being in the house. We are so pleased....Many Thanks!!!!"


Monday, August 22, 2011

How do you get a garage build in Virgina?

So, we are starting our 4th week in a very busy August -

For those in live in Virginia, I don't know how you get anything built? We are dealing/fighting with the township/county on at least three different garage project (Gambrel two story/two car, A-frame two story/two car, and a single story/two car)

We have sealed drawings from our engineer for all three buildings, but the town is still refusing to budge and give the customer his/her building permit.

Looks like we'll have to keep climbing the chain of command till they let out customer build their garage they are in need of.

More to come......

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Mini Chicken Coop WheelBarrow Option COMING SOON!

What do you get when you mix a
Wheelbarrow with our Mini Chicken Coop?

THE ANSWER!!!


~ Makes it easy to move your run to a new location ~

Please s tuned for more information,
www.HorizonStructures.com will have all your chicken coop needs.

ALSO NEW! - Purchase your chicken coop online.....

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Horse Barn - 24' x 56' "Shire"

NEW!!
Video of our 24' x 56' "Shire" Back Yard Barn, with Gambrel Roof.
Check it out and see how you can get a:
4 stalls horse barn, full loft, and a nice size garage/storage room, all modular!

For more information check out: http://www.horizonstructures.com/raised_roof_barn.asp