Pole Building - south Puget Sound

[modeltford]

Hi all!
I'm looking for someone to build a Pole building shop in the Gig Harbor/Port Orchard area. Anyone have any recomendations on who to talk to OR who to stay away from? Probably looking at 32x32x12.

Thanks!
Rich

 

[Vincenthdfan]

I just had a turn-key, 30 x 42 x 14, fully insulated, cement included, pole barn built by Permabilt for right around $30,000 in Olympia, WA.

I'm pretty happy with the overall results...fire away if you have questions.

 

[Darby Darrow]

I had PermaBilt build a 32 x 40 with slab and they did it on time and within budget. Very happy with their team.

 

[modeltford]

Vincent - $30K for yours gives me about $24K finished similarly - that might work! So yours is insulated/drywall? They do the electrical also? Any plumbing - water/air?

Darby - looks good!! What do you use yours for?

 

[Vincenthdfan]

So yours is insulated/drywall? They do the electrical also? Any plumbing water/air?

No drywall, just fully insulated walls, ceiling, and both roll up doors are fully insulated as well.

Drywall would be super easy to install and I may do it some day down the road just for ease of hanging signs, posters, banners...but it looks just fine without for now.

I have an electrical contractor coming out next Monday to route electrical service throughout.

I'm going to route natural gas out too for an 80,000 BTU radiant heat tube (30 foot) heater down the middle of the building.

This is the culmination of many, many years of dreaming so I finally pulled the trigger before its too late, if ya know what I mean?

 

[ADSR]

I had PermaBilt build a 32 x 40 with slab and they did it on time and within budget. Very happy with their team.

Nice looking building!

 

[Darby Darrow]

Vincent - $30K for yours gives me about $24K finished similarly - that might work! So yours is insulated/drywall? They do the electrical also? Any plumbing - water/air?

Darby - looks good!! What do you use yours for?

I teach martial arts and fitness in my retirement! It is insulated and covered with OSB since we throw around people, weights and kettle bells and didn't want to repair the drywall once per week!

 

[bmxdad]

How high are the walls?

How does Permabilt get away with 12' centers on trusses?

 

[Darby Darrow]

How high are the walls?

The walls are 10'

How does Permabilt get away with 12' centers on trusses?

In response to your question, since I am not an expert, I asked PermaBilt and they responded:

The trusses are ordered as an AG truss. Depending on the bay spacing they are ordered as AG-5,AG-6 or AG-7. With your garage we ordered them as AG-7. If you look at the layout the bays are 14’ on center, we place a truss one on either side of the truss post. When you’re looking at the design with the layout you see that each truss holds 7’ of the 14’ bay except at the end walls where we hand built the rake beam. So the trusses ordered and designed as AG trusses are built to be installed as they are on each building we construct.

 

[Highbeam]

How high are the walls?

How does Permabilt get away with 12' centers on trusses?

What's wrong with 12' centers? That's what I've used on the last two pole barns built here in the sound.

My current pole barn in 30x60 with a total of 10 trusses 30 feet long. 14' tall building.

Due to the height, Pierce County made me have an engineer run structural calcs and stamp the plans.

 

[bmxdad]

No issues at all ... they're going to be building me a 24'x36' or 24'x40' with 9' walls, and with the wide truss centers I should have room for a lift in the future. I think ...

Reason I was asking is, I don't see any other builders with that span distance. It really opens the ceiling up.

 

[bmxdad]

Check out my build that's going on now ... 24x36 by Permabilt.