By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 11:45:06 +0000

I purchased an MD Barn in 2003. I loved this barn, and when my ranch was burned in a massive fire along with 1800 other homes, I chose to reorder the identical barn. MD Barns are not fireproof.
I ordered the barn through the Corning office. I paid a deposit on the barn in August of 2016. They advertised that their barns are installed within 8 weeks of ordering. My barn was installed in December. Not 8 weeks. They offered a special at the time of $200 cash rebate per stall, or over $200 in free goods per stall. I was never offered these perks, and it was exactly the time I ordered the barn. MD recommended someone to do my concrete. He was working on my barn without a current contractors license, and he carries ZERO Workmans Compensation. He did an awful job on my concrete, and my concrete is damaged because he did not protect the concrete from a hard frost we had hours after the concrete was poured. I stressed to him that there was going to be a heavy freeze, and he said not to worry about it. I let MD Barns be very aware off this mess with the contractor, and they still use him. He is not the only unlicensed contractor they use/recommend. The concrete contractor also wrote bad checks for the gravel under the concrete on my barn. This is only the beginning of the mess with my barn. The screws in the barn are defective. They are rusting and falling out of the barn, They started doing this within DAYS of installation and MD Barns sent out the contractor who erected the barn. He fixed what he saw, and left. You can literally break off a screw with your fingernail. The barn leaks as well. The contract with MD states the property owner has to supply a forklift to put the barn up, which I did. When the installation contractor arrived to install the barn, he said the traditional forklift (that I rented) would not work, and I needed to immediately get the proper forklift. The truck with the barn on it was waiting in my yard, and they refused to unload the barn until I got another forklift. I had to spend an additional $1800 to get another forklift, in addition to the money I spent for the forklift that was sitting in my yard that I already paid for. I asked MD Barns to reimburse me and again, they refuse to respond. You get the picture of the situation of my barn. I contacted MD Barnmaster in Ontario, CA as well as Corning, CA over 3 weeks ago regarding these issues, that are under warranty. Neither of the above locations has bothered to respond. This is horrible business on their part. This new barn is not nearly the quality of the original barn I had. The steel on this new barn is much lighter and cheaper. My other barn had rain gutters, and with this barn there is just a hole, and the water runs out everywhere into the paddocks. I should have listened to my peers and purchased a FCP barn instead. Obviously the merge between MD and Barnmaster was not a very good thing to do.

By: paul

paul — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:10:51 +0000

there is a new barn company out there called BarnBrothers from Canada.These guys are honest work horse people building modular structures

By: jessica

jessica — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:24:42 +0000

good info

By: fa

fa — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:49:17 +0000

Great! Lots of info!

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