HAWERA DAIRY SHED - Jeremey and Rachael Moore, Dairy Farmers, Hawera, Taranaki

We’ve been on this farm from about eight years, working a 40-bale rotary for the last six.  But it was taking too long to get the cows through.  We milk a lot of cows and we wanted to be in and out in a couple of hours – the new shed has certainly achieved that.

I heard about Kodesign through my neighbour Barney.  Didn’t know Rocky, but he had a cool name so thought I’d better ring him JHe came right out, and took me to a couple of Kodesign sheds up round the coast and to one of PKW’s big operations.

Then Rocky took the ideas I already had and we measured up the yard and did the blueprint together.  He had some great suggestions from Kodesign’s experience with large scale sheds which have quite a different set – up.  Lots of Taranaki builders aren’t exposed to that like Kodesign is.

People don’t realise what a big job it is to build a shed and when you’re still running your farm and your business.  So it was great to be able to trust Kodesign to manage the job.  I didn’t want to have to be watching shed builders all the time.  We also liked how Kodesign did the whole build including yards and pipework.  Other builders we’ve used have just poured the vat steins, built the shed and bridge area and that’s it.

This is the fifth shed we’ve done and Kodesign made it the easiest build of all.  With previous projects there were a lot of cock ups and it took time and money to fix.

The guys worked hard and were really efficient.  I remember the day when Rocky turned up with 19 concrete dudes - I woke up at 4am in the morning and looked across at the yard and there were just all these lights on and these guys just pounding the wet cement.  It looked like there was a big party on!  They pumped that out quick.

And Kodesign had a good understanding of working on a functioning dairy farm.  The race still went right past the building site and when the cows came through the guys just stopped work. 

We’ve now got a really good shed.  It’s a simple functional layout, purpose-built for a large herd.  And the fabricated concrete panels are easy to clean and strong.

The job was done on time and pretty much on budget – we made decisions about changes which cost more but that was fine.  It was clear all the way through what was being done and what the end product would look like.  We’d definitely recommend Kodesign.

The final word from Jeremey:

If you’re on a small shed with a big herd your life is shit.  A new shed can completely change your lifestyle.