Recent content by Dstrompf

I would recommend building the lean to frame out of steel and have the steel building company pre engineer the buildings exterior to be ready for wood. Most likely your gonna need to get approval from your city or county to build, with the pre engineered drawings you receive from a metal...

I have worked with steel buildings for over 8 years and you can put any type of exterior you like. There are some changes that need to be made to the buildings default design in order to have the building ready for wood, stucco, or even a brick exterior. I believe what you are looking for is a...

First of all, WOW! You are one lucky guy! Ok, to the question. You mentioned that you were insulating the building but only the shop/living area was going to be heated/cooled. Does that mean you are doing the same level of insulation throughout? If you use metal dividing walls with high-grade...

How many yards was the job originally supposed to call for? Extra concrete is usually ordered for grading inconsistencies and such...typically it's somewhere around 10%. It stinks if they failed to mention this to you before. I guess it's better to have too much than too little right? Anyways...

Choosing a steel building company is the hardest step of putting the building up... There are some terrible companies out there. I would highly recommend getting some references.

Heres are some pictures of a prefabricated steel building with a gambrel style roof, the building was designed, engineered, delivered, and erected in 30 days.

Stucco over a steel building is very common these days, in addition you can put any type of exterior you want to your building even glass.

Hello, my company can design this building for you, all of our engineering is done in house and during the process of erection an engineer will be able to assist you or your contractor. There are many companies out there and if you have spoken to some of them you probably heard the canceled...

Have you considered a metal building?