Contact Fargo ND Pole Barn Builders | Free Quotes & Site Visits, Cass & Clay Counties
Quotes and site visits are free across Cass County, North Dakota and Clay County, Minnesota. Tell us what you want to build and roughly where. There is no charge for either, and no obligation attached to them. The site visit is where most of the useful information comes from, so we would rather spend an hour on your ground than price a building from an aerial photograph.
Get a quote on your building
Tell us the size, the use and where the site is. We will come back with a scope and a price, not a brochure.
What to tell us
The more of this you can give us up front, the more useful the first conversation will be. None of it is essential, and a phone call with none of it is still welcome.
Roughly what size building you have in mind, and what will be going inside it. If there is machinery, its dimensions in transport position are the single most useful thing you can send. Where the site is, as a parcel, an address or just a road and a township. Whether you need concrete, insulation, heat or power. And what your timeline looks like, because it affects the sequencing and sometimes the design.
What happens next
We will normally come out and walk the site. That visit is free and it is where most of the useful information comes from: the approach, the drainage, where snow drifts already form, and what the ground looks like. You know things about your site that are not visible in a single visit, which is why it helps if you can be there.
After that we will put together a quote broken down line by line, so you can see what the footings, the frame, the openings, the concrete and the site work each cost. If something you want is not worth doing, or would be better done differently, we will say so at that stage rather than after you have paid for it.
How quickly we can get to you
Response time depends mostly on the season rather than the workload. Between roughly late June and freeze-up we are on site most days and a visit usually happens within a week or two. Through the winter we have more flexibility for assessments and design work, which is why we would rather look at a sagging roof in December than in the middle of a build season. Spring is the awkward window here, not because of the cold but because saturated Red River Valley clay will not carry machinery or a ready-mix truck, and that affects scheduling more than any other single factor.
If a building is in a condition that worries you, say so when you call. A roof that is visibly deflecting under snow, making noise, or has fasteners pulling is the one situation where we will move other work to come and look. In that case the advice before we arrive is straightforward: clear the building and stay out of it, and do not climb up to shovel it, because uneven snow removal creates unbalanced loading that can be worse than what you started with.
What a quote from us looks like
Every quote we issue is broken into lines rather than presented as a single figure. You will see what the site preparation costs, what the footings and frame cost, what each opening costs, what the concrete costs and what any insulation, electrical or interior work costs. That is not a formatting preference. It is so you can make informed decisions about what to keep, what to phase and what to leave out.
Four of those lines are where quotes from different builders usually diverge, and all four are invisible once the building is finished: the footing depth and diameter, the specified uplift connection hardware, the gauge and paint system of the steel, and what is actually included in site preparation. If you are comparing us against someone else, those are the lines worth putting side by side. A cheaper quote is not necessarily a worse one, but it is almost always a different specification, and you are entitled to know where.
We do not quote a price per square foot. Two buildings with the same footprint can differ substantially depending on eave height, the number and type of openings, ground conditions and how much concrete is involved, and a single rate hides all of that.
Things we will tell you that you might not want to hear
If a building is not worth repairing, we will say so rather than taking the money for a repair you will regret. If post-frame is the wrong structural system for what you are describing, we will say that too: very long spans, heavy crane loads, genuine multi-storey construction and some fire rating requirements are all better served by something else.
We will also push back on dimensions. Eave height is the thing people most often wish they had increased and the one that cannot be changed afterwards, so if you are describing a building that would be better a size smaller and a few feet taller, that is a conversation we would rather have before you commit than afterwards. The same goes for concrete: on many buildings it is the largest single line, and there is usually a sensible way to phase it.
Where we work
Our main area is Cass County, North Dakota and Clay County, Minnesota: Fargo, West Fargo, Horace, Harwood, Casselton, Mapleton, Kindred, Argusville, Davenport, Hunter, Arthur, Amenia, Leonard and Buffalo on the North Dakota side, and Moorhead, Dilworth, Glyndon, Barnesville, Hawley and Georgetown across the river.
We work in both states and design to whichever code and snow load applies. That matters more than it sounds: Cass County's ground snow load is 40 psf and Clay County's is 50 psf, so a design that is compliant on one side of the river is not automatically compliant on the other.
How to reach us
Cass & Clay
Cass County, North Dakota and Clay County, Minnesota, including both sides of the Red River.
Nothing
Site visits and quotes are free, and we will tell you if a job is not worth doing.
Everything we build
- Agricultural Pole Barns
- Horse Barns & Equestrian Buildings
- Machine Sheds & Equipment Storage
- Livestock Barns
- Hay Storage Buildings
- Pole Barn Garages
- RV & Boat Storage Pole Barns
- Pole Barn Workshops
- Commercial Pole Barns
- Hobby Shops & Man Cave Pole Barns
- Pole Barn Construction
- Pole Barn Design & Planning
- Pole Barn Foundation & Concrete Work
- Pole Barn Framing
- Pole Barn Roofing Installation
- Pole Barn Siding Installation
- Pole Barn Electrical Rough-In
- Pole Barn Insulation Installation
- Pole Barn Repair
- Pole Barn Renovation & Additions
- Post-Frame Building Construction
- Insulated Pole Barns
- Pole Barns with Living Quarters (Barndominiums)
- Custom Pole Barn Doors & Windows
- Pole Barn Loft & Second-Story Additions
- Metal Roof Pole Barns
- Wood-Sided Pole Barns
- Pole Barn Ventilation Systems
- Pole Barn Site Prep & Grading
- Pole Barn Snow Load Reinforcement
Before you call
Can you tell me whether my project needs a permit before I commit?
Yes, and that conversation costs nothing. Give us the parcel and roughly what you want to build and we will establish which authority governs it, whether what you are describing is permitted there, and what the submission will have to contain. If the answer is that it is not permitted as described, we would far rather tell you in the first fortnight than after you have paid for a design.
Tell us about the building
Size, use, site and timeline. That is enough for us to be useful.