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I don't know what to call this to look for ideas. We are putting up a metal building finally this spring, and we are going to build living space inside in 1/3rd of it. It will have 18' sidewalls, but to build a 3rd story, it won't have much height, even with a 4:12 roof. SO, my thought was to...

A guy about 75 miles away has 2" Dow XPS sheets that are 37x54, tongue and groove. $6 per sheet. BUT, they have 1/4"-3/8" of concrete on them. He says this is how they were made. He says they are for roofs of commercial buildings. Has anybody run across this stuff before? If it was used on the...

We are going to be building a 50x75x18 by the end of the year. We thought of incorporating an elevated living space on the north side of the building. It would be 20x75x8/12? I'm trying to figure out how to plan the floor part of it. The building will have 3 25' bays, and to be able to use...

I'm getting everything together now for a 50x75x16 in NW Iowa. It will be a steel frame building with 3 bays. I was thinking of doing 8 6'x2.5' piers for the columns and then a 2'x8" grade beam for the perimeter. Our frost line is around 4' everywhere I've looked online. I was planning on...