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This engineering portion should be less than a week in my thinking? Did you pay them for the building? I would be a little concerned. Maybe just me over reacting?
Good luck with this project Joe! I am really enjoying my new shop which is still in the build mode. Not sure they are ever done?
FRegards,
Chris
Met with the salesman on Friday to discuss what I would like. 30' x 40' x14' 2 rollup doors and a man door. 14' x 30' loft and a continuation of the roof 12' to one side.
I didn't expect it to be cheap but $105K seems to be a little out there! Glad I was sitting when he told me that.
Rich,
With lumber prices doubled from last year, that doesn't surprise me . Good luck with your building. Maybe the prices will come down? How long can you wait?
Regards,
Chris
I did a 12 X 24 addition to my barn last summer before prices took off. I did all of the work myself except the offload and polishing of the concrete, btdt not doing that any more. All of my framing and the exterior board and baton was native lumber. The final cost was just over $6K, or about $21/sq. ft. As an example, the 7/16 OSB, (OSB painted white is the interior surface rather than sheet rock) in late July cost $12/sheet. Last I looked it was $30/sheet.
Picture was before staining. The total price was everything including final staining. It is the new "home" for Willard, my 49.
I have another quote from a different builder. Pretty much the same building without the loft. The said $61,500. Taking a closer look at that. Lumber and steel is crazy right now. The contruction companies are 6-12 months out so may see a drop in prices.
Looking to get the shop done and well in so I can have our retirement house built. At least with the way realty prices are going my current home should cover the new house!
Wow, can't believe prices have jumped that much. I built mine 9 years ago, all steel kit $32,000, 4000 sq ft. including second floor. Did 90% all by myself with no equipment, just scaffolding, come-along and industrial magnets.
From the report I saw, at least for wood, there is plenty of raw material out there, just don't have the capacity to process it. When this whole mess stored with the idiotic shut down of the economy the wood industry shut down thinking everyone was going to shut themselves down and not do anything. They didn't take into consideration than many people were going to work from home without any financial problems. Added to the normal amount of projects is all the people still getting paid their normal pay with the bonus of not having to pay for clothing and transportation associated with having to go into they sat around their homes seeing having more time to think of things to do around their homes. I have a friends who are a married couple who started working from home with full pay who decided they needed to remodel their bathroom. A stump grinder my son cut wood for and made a deal to grind a stump in our yard told me he's been busier than ever, working six days a week, because people are looking out there windows and seeing dead or dying trees or trees they just don't want and having them cut down and having the stumps ground. So many undesired consequences can come from stupid decisions.
Wow, can't believe prices have jumped that much. I built mine 9 years ago, all steel kit $32,000, 4000 sq ft. including second floor. Did 90% all by myself with no equipment, just scaffolding, come-along and industrial magnets.
I did get a quote from one of the Steel Building Kit manufacturers and the kit came in at over $41,000. I don't have the time/experience to do myself. (Been on the road for business 3 months so far this year.) Not having much luck yet finding a builder here. But with concrete and assembly, I'm back at the same point as having the Pole building installed. I will go forward but might have to scale back. Which would make me sad.
Just curious, what is the benefit of a steel frame structure over a wood framed building? Obviously it's a stronger structure but how many of us are going to need to hang things from the steel beams. I have a wood frame pole building that we insulated and heated and it's great. I suppose if I operated a business that had to have equipment attached to steel beams that would matter more.
Steel has little to no maintenance, don't have to worry about insect or rot. Wood structure around here you need to paint every 3 to 5 years, worry about the insects and rot. I'm for less maintenance at this age. Also the wood you get anymore is crap. Your lucky if you find one straight piece out of 20.
I have a wood framed pole building with corrugated steel siding. I have the inside fully insulated and heated. The building, well just the shell was on the property when we bought the place about five years ago. I'm very happy with it. I don't know about wood rot. On the farm they have three pole buildings like this, one is 50+ years old, one is about 40+ years old and the one in the back 40 is around 30 years old. They are all just shells, the 40 year old has a cement floor, the other dirt floors. All are in still good condition with no real maintenance. All are build with treated uprights. I don't plan on being here another 30 years so as long as mine outlives me is all I car about.
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