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BNielsen said:

If the reasoning is anything similar to what I've been going through, these steel buildings go up a lot quicker than pole barns. Under a certain size of building it's a bit cheaper and more efficient than a pole barn build. At least that's how it is around me, I got quoted a framed in steel 25x35 with 2 doors for about 9500 installed on a pad versus almost 13K for a 24x30 pole barn with a single door.

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Hipster said:

and @Supercharged111

Concrete was poured 3 weeks ago and they started today. About 6 hours they worked. Said they will be done tomorrow.

It's kind of a nickel and dime you process. The base building starts 21,800 with 4"concrete but I upsized the doors to 10x10' and put one on the side instead of both on gable end, upcharge for this and that. The county crammed it to me because I'm zone Residental Agriculture and not a farm so I had to upgrade to the formal engineered package /Certified/engineered/notorized blue prints @$4600 which also covered increased snow loads more internal closer bracing etc . Insulation package 2,900 Had I know it was little more than a few layers of bubble wrap probably would have opted out of that. But it's done. Winters here are generally mild. Just under 30K.

I work with 2 other guys that have had buildings put up by this outfit in the last year and a half. They show when they say they will, they hustle and are done and gone. Several outfits in this area that put up these buildings, not many Amish pole barn builders

I had a pole building at my last house. Everything about it was odd, I didn't have it built. 9x9 doors that a car trailer would barely fit through. 9'6" wall height with 9 door so door openers were actually mounted up in between the trusses making more difficult to close the ceiling. Termites also got into the building and rotted a couple supports because only grade level and the post were treated lumber. When I started looking about a year ago lumber was stupid money and I'm wanting to say a 30x40 would have been north of 40 k.

So 10ft more length, 12 ft walls, almost 15 ft height at center, $10k less, and less termite worries

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Supercharged111 said:

Well you've got me curious enough to ask. I nabbed 5 acres last week and am building a plan to develop it now.

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Hipster said:

I figured you were asking for a reason. Some of the information these places present can be deceptive. Some say 10 wall heights when they're talking about what the exterior roof height is at the wall. Some include the soffit overhangs as part of the building dimensions so the foot print is short in both directions. As in my case the slab was poured 29x49. Part of the engineering were the specs on the slab and footers. Evidently if you have a farm around here they can pour a 4" slab on top of the dirt and put the building up sans footers and the online price that included the concrete is indicative of doing it that way. Every thing arrived pre-welded, pre-cut, etc. except for the siding on the upper gable ends. They assembled the ends, bolted on the siding, trimmed, and stood them up. The rest goes together like an erector set. A guy with a couple screw guns and a couple buddies could easily put one up.

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BNielsen said:

Where'd you buy from if you don't mind me asking? I've gotten quotes from local builders but I've also looked at Versatube structures, the local builders are a little nicer since I can go and physically see the style of building I want, Versatube is just building it online and visualizing it

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BNielsen said:

If the reasoning is anything similar to what I've been going through, these steel buildings go up a lot quicker than pole barns. Under a certain size of building it's a bit cheaper and more efficient than a pole barn build. At least that's how it is around me, I got quoted a framed in steel 25x35 with 2 doors for about 9500 installed on a pad versus almost 13K for a 24x30 pole barn with a single door.

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PlayingWithTBI said:

FYI @Supercharged111
I researched builders and companies until I found the guy who has built most of the hay barns around here. He also built the True Value Hardware store. I had a choice of "permitted" or non-permitted. Since I have 5 acres, the county doesn't worry about it so, I saved over $10K for that. It's a 30 X 60 (wish I had gone 40 X 60) with 6" slab (someday for a hoist) . The footings are 32" deep, 3 roof vents, 2 16' X 10' roll up doors with openers, 2 windows, and 1 man door. Insulation would have been another $3K IIRC. The building was welded together on site. Total price ~$37K. Then I did the electrical myself.

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