Amish Built Horse Barns
Are “Amish-Built” Horse Barns Truly Offer the Best Construction and the Best Quality?
Many people associate “Amish-Built” with the quality and automatically assume that if they purchase, or hire Amish carpenters to build their horse barn or any other structure, they will get one of the best-built barns. Perhaps, that used to be the case – NOT ANY MORE. These days, “Amish-Built” phrase is being used & abused by many builders and dealers that carry Amish product, mostly for advertising purposes. Reality is, Amish people do not build better barns and do not offer better quality. Amish, are just like any other builders trying to compete with different Non-Amish companies and with each other for customers.
It’s not hard to notice that the trend of Amish owned companies is to offer the better price, not necessary the better product. Why sweat and worry about quality, when you can just say “Amish Built”? Yes, we do have to give credit to Amish people for brining different styles of sheds, barns and other nice looking product into the market, but to automatically assume that their product is better constructed, is simply false. I’ve seen good quality Amish barns & sheds, but I have also seen some barns built by the Amish that would not pass any construction codes. It’s good to offer a better price for a certain barn, but to cut corners & to use cheaper materials in order to offer the better price, is simply not acceptable. The bottom line – No matter where you buy your horse barn from (Amish or Non-Amish) – get all the details about this barn (construction specifications, materials used, inside heights, etc.), compare, and go for the Best!
