When JZ Utility Barns (now Yoder’s Quality Buildings) was founded by Jonathan Zook in 2001, little did the family know what all would soon transpire. For the first few years, the Utility Shed Company based in Rural Retreat, Virginia, made slow growth as father and sons worked hard to get their new[Read More…]
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Florida Portable Building Company Opens New Location
Keen’s Portable Buildings LLC in Florida opened a new location in April, the company reports. The new spot, the company’s fifth, is in Brooksville/Massaryktown, Florida. “When it comes to Keen’s Portable Buildings our first goal is always to provide the best customer service and get our products to customers in[Read More…]
Customer Experience is the Key to Success
Small business owners often feel overwhelmed by marketing because there are so many things to pay attention to. It’s hard to know what to prioritize. Not only are there hundreds of potential ways to spend money, there are always new and exciting tools being introduced that you feel you need[Read More…]
Inspected and Certified
Our business, Woodtex, has its roots in Himrod, New York, which is in the heart of the Finger Lakes region. As we gained experience and confidence, we started building bigger, more complex structures like garages and horse barns. Our ability to build a larger garage, and see it delivered in[Read More…]
NY Army National Guard Train on Building Projects
Nearly 300 soldiers from the Binghamton, New York-based 204th Engineer Battalion used their summer annual training to prepare for overseas deployments and domestic operations while building lasting projects across three ranges and four construction sites in Fort Drum, New York, in July. “Not only are we training to deploy but[Read More…]
Cabin and Cottage Shop Tour in Vermont
Dominic Mangano started Jamaica Cottage Shop back in 1995 in Jamaica, Vermont. Hence, the name (just in case you were curious why a shop in Vermont used the name “Jamaica”). Today, the shop is located in South Londonderry, but the company still creates quality cabins, cottages, and sheds in prefab[Read More…]
Turning a Shed into A Backyard Pub
Mike Sheehan of Grand Rapids, Michigan, has a huge family that loves to get together for lots of parties. The problem with having a big family is that they overrun the house. Sheehan’s wife mentioned that it would be nice to get the family out of the house and keep[Read More…]
Amish Shed Company Launched in Missouri
Samuel Fisher, who learned the shed-building trade in the “Shed Capital of the World,” has launched a new Amish sheds company in Dunnegan, Missouri—Dunnegan Springs Structures. For nearly ten years, Fisher worked in the storage shed industry in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. During that time, he was tasked with doing about every[Read More…]
10 Shed ‘Fails’ That Have to be Seen
We try to keep things on the positive side around here, but, sometimes things happen. That includes “fails” when it comes to shed building. Check out the 10 shed building/moving fails in the following video. YouTuber Bill Berg put together some epic, and hilarious, fails, didn’t he? One of the[Read More…]
Just How Fast Can a Pro Build a Shed?
Last week’s speedy shed build video attracted a lot of interest. One builder decided to share his fast shed building video. Kauffman Builders in Eureka, Montana, wanted to see how fast they could build a shed. Now, they didn’t do it in 10 minutes. The footage is sped up, but[Read More…]
