A shop/garage from Farrow Built, an Enderby company (submitted image)

By Kevin Rothwell

Post-frame buldings

Local company growing in niche construction market

Sep 10, 2023 | 10:00 AM

A company specializing in custom build shops and farm structures is finding success in the B.C. marketplace with an old fashioned approach.

Farrow Built, located on Deep Creek Road in Enderby, is using wood and metal cladding to produce buildings specific to customers demands.

“The history goes back to a few years before I started the company, when I originally started building post-frame buildings out in Saskatchewan, with a crew from B.C. and did that for a few years and learned the trade,” owner Duncan Farrow told Vernon Matters.

It wasn’t an easy start-up with the company taking all sorts of jobs.

“At first, getting going, we did a bit of whatever. We did concrete finishing, finishing decks, renovations, all that sort of thing. In that last couple of years, we have focused into that niche of post-frame buildings, doing shops, farm buildings and storage buildings,” Farrow said. “It feels good to get back to our roots.”

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A specialty built round structure (submitted image)

The company culture includes customer-focused, 10-year warranties, community involvement, family oriented, training programs and being on the look-out for improvements. In a competitive labour market, Farrow has thrived.

“That unique approach we have is that we do a four/12 shift, but it rotates so that every second weekend, they get four days off, so essentially getting a four-day weekend, twice a month,” Farrow added. “The reason we did that was because, if you live here, we think that you need time to enjoy what the Okanagan has to offer.”

Farrow said the schedule has helped with attraction, retention and with people enjoying the job more because they know they have that four-day weekend coming up, so they can kickback and relax and come to work refreshed and ready to go again.

Farrow Built employees (submitted image)

As important to the company as their employees is connecting in the community at local community and chamber of commerce events.

“It has been a good response. We have definitely put a lot of work into marketing. People are starting to realize now what we do,” Farrow stated. “At first it was kind of vague with all the different things we were doing, but now that we are focused in on post-frame buildings, farm buildings, shops and storage buildings, people are recognizing that, and we are getting more and more that way because we had dialed in what we do.”

For more information and a gallery of Farrow Built’s work, click here.