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calvinater
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Looking to erect a 30x40 building for the boy to use as a shop.
Anyone have experience with erecting your own?
Were you happy with the end result?
Any reccomended manufacturers?
Thanks
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Bulli Klinik
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| Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:03 am Post subject: Re: metal buildings |
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I erected a quonset hut a couple of years ago. I farmed out the finish work on the foundation and friend and I did the rest of the work. I got a really good deal on a used shell and we built the rest.
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nsracing
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| Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:02 am Post subject: Re: metal buildings |
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Nice metal! Maybe double that size and triple will do me just fine in the middle of the desert.
But I am more traditional - i like old firestations and make them like workshop. Plenty properties like that. |
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kingkarmann
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| Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:03 am Post subject: Re: metal buildings |
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| calvinater wrote: |
Looking to erect a 30x40 building for the boy to use as a shop.
Anyone have experience with erecting your own?
Were you happy with the end result?
Any reccomended manufacturers?
Thanks |
Versitube
https://www.versatube.com/building-kits/garages-buildings/
I have been looking in an RV Port.
Not the cheapest but the ones I have looked at are well engineered.
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typ914
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| Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:24 pm Post subject: Re: metal buildings |
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| Not me but a friend built a 60 x 100 metal building. He built his house in side the first quarter of it with the front looking like a normal house. The rest of the building was his workshop. A contractor working on a house next to his property saw the set up and loved it. The guy made an offer he couldn't refuse and he sold it to him before he moved in. Doing a building like that is part of my retirement plan! |
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Dusty1
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Bought a Morton building 30 years ago and would do it again.
New England Caveat:
20' x 50' is about all you want to heat in the winter. If you're using it as a workshop don't go big and don't go tall. You can work in a tin shed in Texas, Arizona or New Mexico. Working in a tin shed in Vermont in January is almost as miserable as wallowing in the snow outside tryin' to start a soggy and hard to light diesel.
My late brother's place sold literally last week with the last gentleman's workshop I built. That one was wood over a structural steel frame, heavily insulated.
You can generally buy a big industrial space cheaper than you can build one.
First thing every woodchuck up north builds is a workshop big enough to accommodate their log truck and their skidder. Economy takes its inevitable downturn and the bank gets it.
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calvinater
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| Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:23 pm Post subject: Re: metal buildings |
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Went with a Future Buildings 30x 48 fully insulated and delivered, 28k.
Next up site prep.
any tips on radiantt heat tubing?
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busdaddy
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| Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:40 pm Post subject: Re: metal buildings |
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| any tips on radiantt heat tubing? |
Map it out carefully and space it widely if possible, if holes in the floor for hoists and the like are required later it's good to know where you can drill safely.
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my59
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| Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:56 pm Post subject: Re: metal buildings |
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| any tips on radiantt heat tubing? |
Map it out carefully and space it widely if possible, if holes in the floor for hoists and the like are required later it's good to know where you can drill safely. |
Keep in mind radient floor heating takes time to warm up and cool down. EPS insulation under the slab works well, no need to heat the ground under, but you need to look at the PSI rating of the insulation so it doesn't crush under load of slab (dead load) and what you plan on putting on the slab (live load)
I'd be figuring out equipment being anchored to floor, and maybe thicken slab in the area and pattern the piping accordingly.
Pex tubing was used last time I did a place with radiant heating, and the Hvac engineer suggested a 6" slab to increase heated mass. There was a floor thermostat involved, and glycol? In the boiler water in case of power failure to make sure nothing froze.
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