Metal building suggestions

call carolina carports from texas for a price, you can thank me later

6 years ago i paid $8k for a 24x30 enclosed garage with two 10ft roll up doors and a walk through entrance door completely installed on my existing slab with the 10ft walls and 175mph wind rated bldg

I would go red iron. You could get a 1200 sq. ft. building from Mueller for half that price. Check it out here. Then build out whatever you need in it.

But like it's been mentioned before, that depends on if you're including concrete and erection. Concrete for that building should run about 8k and erection between 5k and 8k. So the 1200 sq ft Mueller turnkey would be about that 30k price you mentioned.

Whatever you do....Whatever you do.....DO NOT go with a Reed's metal building. I built a 36x64 building and decided to go with a Reed's building to save myself a few grand. Ended up costing me much more in the end. Was supposed to be a DIY building, but I had to pay an erector to come out there because nothing was right. He ended up having to pay a welder to come out and they had to blow holes in shite and everything. Was supposed to be an easy job. Oh, and once you give Reed's your money, customer service flies right out the window.

I appreciate all the advice and suggestions. So far I've gotten 3 quotes (still waiting on a few more) and it seems like everywhere is going to be around at least $30k.

I know some people will say wait for prices to come down but does anybody really expect that to happen?

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6 years ago i paid $8k for a 24x30 enclosed garage with two 10ft roll up doors and a walk through entrance door completely installed on my existing slab with the 10ft walls and 175mph wind rated bldg

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You realize that unless the roll up doors are braced in storms along with the inside swinging walk through door, you are only as good as the point in which a door gives way and the entire building disappears?

I supervised the rebuild of Beckwith Electric using a Butler Building two floors and 56,000 s ft of manufacturing space. Board of Directors meets and the son of the owner asked me "Rated for 150mph right?" "Until the first window breaks, loading door gives way or one of the four walk through doors breaks. Then all bets are off. Good Luck." "I thought this was engineered and tested." "It is, but the panels are tested for the space requirements between purlins before the panel bends. No one tested for openings."

Uplift and down pressure tears an open metal building apart.

That door or window failure....opens the building up.

Guys at UL provide all the information you want on testing. I watched the testing first hand.

Your metal panels are tested for uplift depending on the purlin spacing and the gauge of the metal used.

We saw it first hand when our building was destroyed by a tornado. Metal panels give way and peel off. Hurricanes do the same thing. Three people inside watched the metal panels peel off and disappear. Not much building left.