Morton Buildings

We went to the WY State Fair in 2014 just to see the Morton Building exhibit. We were most impressed with Morton's patented foundation system for a pole building. Your wood is never in the dirt and won't rot off. Then we found out Morton has a 5 year wind warranty. YES A WIND WARRANTY. Plus like a 30 year warranty on the building for other than wind damage. In October of 2014 we signed a contract for the build. Morton did everything they said they would do. Showed up when they said (beginning of Feb. 2015) and from the first nail to the completed building was FIVE DAYS. The crew came from Germantown, Ohio, because the other crews from Scottsbluff (the Morton regional center for Casper) were booked on other projects and the Ohio crew was simply amazing. My husband was going to be there to 'supervise' but he wound up working a lot of overtime that week and I ran out and back to my office job. But Basically I showed up to sign papers when they needed and other than that they just constructed it without us there or watching. However, the neighbors watched and one of them has already contacted Morton about a building for them. What's that tell you? Pretty impressive from start to finish. The Morton building cost was just about what we had been quoted from on local contractor. This building was slightly larger in the arena and did not have a lean to that the local contractor quoted. Now I want to give you a word of caution. Think very carefully about EVERYTHING you want in your building, from windows, height, size, placement, doors, etc. Because if you do a Change Order it will cost you $$$$$ and probably a lot more than if you had that in there in the first place. We changed nothing....and got exactly what our contract said we would. So remember, do not do change orders after the construction has begun. All our material came in from the Morton Factory in Kansas. So if you add it's gotta come up from Kansas again. In a truck. And you know what shipping costs these days. Take your time and plan everything, change Nothing after your material is on the job site. On one of the days they were putting up the siding, the wind was blowing at 57 mph. I had watched the day before as they were putting the roofing on. Wow what a treat. That crew did not have a wasted motion and it was so fun to watch them. The day they did the walk through with us, it was blowing almost 50 mph again and you couldn't really tell it inside the barn. It was quiet in there. We haven't ridden in it yet as weekends we are trying to get the arena dirt in and a rider's guard up. Also have to run electricity and install lighting. We aren't anywhere as fast as Morton! But it's everything we hoped for and our dream barn. I wish I could post pictures of the building here. We are SOLD on Morton Buildings. Would we use them again? Absolutely.