New 30x40 shop

[shortymgee]

Hello. I've looked a garage journal for some years and think it's amazing. Finally getting around to building a shop and am wondering if anyone has ever built a shop out of freezer panels. They are 2 layers of sheet metal with foam insulation sandwitched between them. I'm guessing that all my airlines and electrical have to be run on the outside of the inside walls due to no way to get inside of the panels. I really wandering how the 90° corners will meet up or how they will hold together and how the roof to wall will attach together. Annnnnd. Just kidding. I'm done. Thanks

 

[MushCreek]

In building, they're called SIPs (Structural Insulated Panels). Most of them are sandwiched between OSB panels, but they do make metal ones as well. If the panels you're thinking of aren't designed for building a house, I'd just use them in a post frame or some such, and not rely on them for structure. SIPs are available with wire chases built in, and you can also make channels by heating a steel ball red hot and dropping it down a perfectly plumb wall. As the ball melts through the foam, and makes a nice clean hole for wiring. I used that technique building my ICF home.

I strongly considered metal SIPs for building my house, and even got a quote to have all of the panels cut to size (like a giant kit), but I didn't have any way to erect the panels by myself. The company in FL I got my quote from can make panels up to 12" thick and 54'(!).