For many, figuring out how to finish the interior of your farm shop is often harder than deciding on what to do with the exterior. For some, picking out colors and building details - like wainscot, cupolas, and choosing sliding doors or overhead doors - is easier than trying to decide how you want your shop set up. If I had to guess, your wife (or husband) has a lot of opinions on how they want the exterior to look. I can’t say that I blame them. The shop is more than likely going to sit next to your house, so it only makes sense that they want everything to match. Trust me, I would be the same way. But when it comes to creating the perfect interior, that’s all on you. You’re going to be the one working in the shop night and day. Your farmhands are going to be helping you get the equipment ready. This is going to be your livelihood.

Renovations were on farmers’ minds at the Farm Progress Show and there were a lot of questions about what could and should be done to improve existing buildings. Most of these fell into one of three buckets: roofing, re-finishing interiors, and replacing doors.

Rot is a fungus that flourishes with moisture, oxygen and darkness. Most of the microbial action takes place within 6” of the surface, and when it does, it can damage your building’s structural integrity—and your savings.

Visitors to our building had a lot of questions about FBi Buildings. Here are our answers.

“We added a connection because we were short on storage space. We decided on a connection because we wanted more space in the same building. Adding on to the end made most sense because that’s where we had the additional land.”

If you are like most of the people we talk to, you don’t mind paying a little more if you can see value in what you’re getting for your dollar. Be sure you know what you’re getting because there is a big difference in components.