Steel Frame Garage Kit

[KellyfromVA]

I'm thinking about adding a second detached garage and found this idea to be interesting and economical. Because only the framing is steel, the outside of the structure is sheeted with OSB or your choice of siding and roof type. The structure appears to be stick built rather than a steel-covered industrial-looking structure that my wife would want no part of.

Does anyone have any insight regarding steel framed garage kits? I found a company via 'FleaBay' which has a 24X24 garage framing kit for less than $4K. Of course I'd still have to pour the slab attach siding, roof, doors, etc., but it would be less by my calculations than trying to frame it with 2X4's.

Example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NuGarage-2-...633?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ec6ff63e1

 

[sberry]

Already started wrong with the doors in the side,, ha

 

[brucer]

Already started wrong with the doors in the side,, ha

Why is that? The doors on the side give you two bays instead of one, plus if your working on a hotrod or a prject that might take a while you still have an open bay... Wish my garage had two 10ft doors on the side rather than one 16ft door on the end.

 

[readhead]

Do you live in snow country? What is the snow load rating?

 

[sberry]

Why is that? The doors on the side give you two bays instead of one

Its a 24X24 garage, how would doors in the side give more bays?

 

[bad12jr]

I think I could stick build it for the same or even less.

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[Garage Coffee Roaster]

I agree with ^^^.

Can you build a shed? Follow plans?

I could probably stick build a completed building minus the slab with basic doors for less than the kit.

 

[zcar751]

looks like an erector set.

 

[brucer]

Its a 24X24 garage, how would doors in the side give more bays?

you are correct, I didnt pay enough attention to the size of the plans.. I was comparing my garage its 24x30.

still, whats it matter which side the doors are on, especially since the walls are the same length?

 

[sberry]

Doors in an end wall are often preferred as there doesn't need heavy headers to carry truss load and one doesn't have to deal with water run off the eves. A steel building like mine doesn't have some of the same header issue but I don't use the side much in the winter and after 3 weeks of constant rain its driving me insane, pulled some rain gutter out that I don't have energy to install correctly right now.

I figured out what I might do though, make it retractable of sorts. I like working on the side apron when I can, most days much above freezing that door is open. The side apron is fairly level and tools and equipment handy from there.

 

[hasekmpp]

I think I could stick build it for the same or even less.

 

[sberry]

A lot of people on this forum are car people, I am a shop guy, infrastructure. People drive around and look at homes and I look at the garages.

Builders are pitiful, some of them. The home brew crew makes features they regret and with the advent of a modern truss there is no reason in most cases except for pretty roof line as I cant spell archetecht. I see one every day, a car guy with the same setup, his vision on a sunny day is one hard to fix and a super pain in seasonal weather, should be doors with soffits.

I understand aoning but anyone just contemplating a 30x40 needs to consider 40x40 or better.

Got to go, I peck this a piece at a time.

 

[sberry]

It is true one can utilize a bit more of a stall format in some cases with side doors but 40 lets one come away from the wall put in 2 doors and a man door all in the end.

 

[sberry]

The door local the same principle as this one but scale reduced, eliminate the paint/loading dock door with walk door out the back which may work as paint exhaust with room divider curtain. A bunch of it can be retro added provided its got some basics easiest built in,,, which is location, direction and door entry location to the nature of humans and surrounding area/traffic.

Lots of nice buildings but they missed a little easy moneys worth up front, kind of like the 120/240 mig argument.

 

[ZRX61]

I'm thinking about adding a second detached garage and found this idea to be interesting and economical. Because only the framing is steel, the outside of the structure is sheeted with OSB or your choice of siding and roof type.

Take a look at horse stables, they are frequently steel frame & are a piece of cake to assemble/erect. For an example on here, check out Don Longs workshop.

Post #916, 2nd pic:
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=153099&page=46

Post #3 here:
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=221122&showall=1

Ya might need to scale it down a bit from Don's version