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Adding a Mezzanine Game Loft to a Steel Building
A customer in Ohio bought a 40 by 60 steel building from us three years ago as a workshop and vehicle store.
A steel building project has more moving parts than most first-time buyers expect. You order the kit, the manufacturer quotes six to ten weeks, the concrete crew needs two weeks notice, the permit office takes its own time, and somewhere...
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A customer in Ohio bought a 40 by 60 steel building from us three years ago as a workshop and vehicle store.
Building Kits
A steel building kit arrives on a flatbed truck as a stack of labeled parts, a box of fasteners and a set of drawings.
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A steel building is a shell of enormous potential, but its usefulness for modern purposes depends entirely on what goes into...
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Serious collectors face a problem the casual observer never thinks about, which is where to keep a growing collection safely.
Permits and Codes
For most of my nine years reviewing building permit applications for a county office, I worked the way I suspect most people in...
Costs and Pricing
A client called me this spring, annoyed, because a repair bill on a two year old building had come in at just under six...
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Three people who have priced, erected, and permitted steel buildings long before writing about them: an estimator who has quoted hundreds of jobs, an erector who has bolted up kits in every kind of weather, and a former county permits clerk who has rejected more applications than she approved. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer has not seen happen on an actual job site.