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pre-fab (steel) vs. stick build sheds/garage/shops

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Hello everyone! I am seeking information/opinions about sheds. Im planning on building one this spring and have seen many companies on the internet advertising steel prefab sheds that can be assembled in half the time of a stick built at a lower cost. Anyone here have expierience with these? How are they in winter? (snow load problems?) any info/advice would be great! Thank you
 

Where are you located? I have a friend that runs a company that makes them. They ship all over the northeast.
 
Are you talking about one of these? A well-engineered post-frame building is ten times the building. And an all-steel (steel truss) building is another order of magnitude better.

Sometimes you get what you pay for.
Future Steel buildings
 
If you buy a new one the snow load is engineered in for your region of the country.

If you have a guy with experience they go up very fast. You can set all the pieces with a large telescoping forklift. If you use a crane, what we've been doing for years is pre-frame the entire roof on the ground and set it one pick.

It takes a little bit larger crane that way, but you can have it in/out in a half day so it's usually more economical.

The foundation concrete / anchor bolts should be done and cured by the time the building arrives, and you can have it up in days.
 
I don't know on your question but a steel would not be able to burn like a stick (wood) built so depending on what you are wanting it for that could factor in.
 
We had an 18'x21' steel shed installed two years ago for a few head of cattle, it is open on one end facing east and stays suprisingly warm,even in single digits the manure and bedding rarely freeze. Haven't had any problems even with 10" of snow on it.We are considering another one for hay and equipment storage.
 
The steel building will go up faster and easier. They will las longer than wooden post type will. No post to rot in the ground.

The down side is that they are harder to finish out if you are going to insulate and line them. Plus if you are not going to have a concrete floor in it then you will need concrete pads for the posts/wall supports. So if you add that to the cost it would be about the same for an unfinished building.
 
I have built Pole, stick and steel building. Each has its own plus. If you are going to use a contractor be sure you have a bottom line $$$ before starting. A friend built the same building, same size as I did. Even with the labor his cost $10K more. They just kept adding on cost. The price was delivered, BUT NOT unloaded. It ended with a cost of clean up. When I can't build myself anymore the building will stop.
 
My daughter has one on her place, I have no idea what brand, but it is the rounded "quonset hut" type. Looks like someone took a huge sheet of corrugated steel and bent it, totally self supporting. One advantage of this type would be very little snow accumulation. The down side as J D Seller stated would be the difficulty in finishing it inside.
 
(quoted from post at 08:24:28 01/05/13) I don't know on your question but a steel would not be able to burn like a stick (wood) built so depending on what you are wanting it for that could factor in.
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Steel may not burn but it will fall down faster in a fire than many wood framed structures.
 
The only steel pre-fab worth putting up is a Behlen, out of Nebraska, in my opinion. They are bolt together with panels large enough that you are not putting in bolts forever and they are the only buildings standing after a tornado goes over them. The doors may be gone, but the building is still there. They are not the cheapest, but they are solid, water tight and will last forever.
 
It depends what you are going to do with it. I have a 50X80 US Buildings straight sided arch building, dirt floor, 20x16 overhead doors in each end. Plus side: straight sides allow you to get right up to the wall with machinery, no wasted space like a regular quonset building. It has stood undamaged while a neighbors pole barn 1/8th mile away was severly damaged by a wind storm. Minus: Excessive moisture inside!!! I try to run a torpedo heater in the winter to work inside and when the heat hits the metal, it's raining inside. No way to hang anything from the walls. If you look driving around the country, most off these type of buildings, the doors are left open for ventilation. Not near as simple to put up as the advertisments claim. I have it, but I'm sure wish I had a pole barn instead. Chris
 
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