Barntoolbox.com Website Review

THE TOOLBOX FULL OF RESOURCES, INFORMATION & DETAILS ON HOW TO BUILD BARNS AND MORE. If you are getting ready to build a barn, we hope that our website will as*ist you in becoming more knowledgeable of different barn types & styles, building techniques, construction terms and much more! If you are planning to build a barn yourself, on this site you will find good information, tips & advice on proper barn construction.  It is also a good information source for purchasing barn materials and hardware. If building a barn yourself is simply not an option and you are planning to hire a contractor, we still recommend familiarizing yourself with construction terms in order to better understand your quotes & contracts.  It's also a good idea to arm yourself with a knowledge of must-have features in a properly constructed barn. Let's be honest, building a barn is not a simple task and requires some construction knowledge & experience.  Our goal is to provide as much information about barns as possible, so you can at least have some idea of how barns are constructed. would like to contribute your barn images, articles, etc. please let us know. This is just a small sample of what most of our visitors found useful on our site. Barn - is a structure, built with a main purpose of providing storage or to house a livestock. Some barns, especially Post & Beam and Timber Frame barns may also be converted into living quarters, or used for a business purpose.  Business use for Timber Frame barns may include, but not limited to restaurants, retail shops, inns and others. In good old days, people used to build barns with materials they had at hand and whatever was readily available to them.  Most of the old These days however, we have a significantly higher number of construction materials available to build a barn.  In addition to wood & stone, we now have steel, vinyl and different composite materials that can be used for either roofing or siding.  Steel may structural composite materials, or totally new material that we've never heard of.