Five Reasons Steel Buildings Make Great Garages

Many older homes, especially in urban areas, were built before garages became common. If they had a garage at all, they were usually one-car garages. This doesn’t work very well in this age of two-car families. That’s why one of the most popular uses for steel buildings is to replace one-car garages or to build a garage where the original home builder didn’t include one.

Steel buildings make excellent garages for a number of reasons. If you’re trying to decide what kind of structure and materials to use for your garage addition, here are five reasons that steel buildings make great garages.

Plenty of Room for Cars

Arched metal buildings of the type based on Quonset buildings don’t need any interior posts or supports. That leaves plenty of room for your car or cars. You can drive your car in and out of the structure without having to maneuver around steel posts or other supports or worry about banging your door on the post when you open it to get out.

Available in Many Sizes

Steel buildings are available in many widths, and the standard widths easily accommodate one, two or more cars, with plenty of additional room for storage. If you decide you want to add on to your garage later, it’s easy to expand lengthwise. In most cases, it just involves removing the end wall, adding another side wall section and replacing the end wall.

Match Your Home’s Style and Color

Today’s steel buildings can match your home’s style and color exactly, so your new garage doesn’t look out of place. Steel building manufacturers provide colored garages in many of the most popular home colors as a standard feature, and many of them will  custom mix paint to exactly match your home.

Very Affordable

Steel buildings are among the most affordable types of structure you can build as a home addition. In most cases, they don’t need a full foundation, which reduces the cost considerably. Because they’re delivered with all the components pre-drilled and precision-engineered, it takes less time to erect a steel building than it does to build a standard garage. That also reduces the costs because you’re paying a contractor for far less time.

Nearly Zero Maintenance

Steel is durable, weather-resistant, rot-resistant and unattractive to critters like termites, which means that your maintenance time and costs are very low. If you opt for steel with powder-coated color, your paint job will be guaranteed for up to 20 years with no flaking, peeling or fading, so you never have to scrape and repaint your new garage. About the only regular maintenance needed by steel buildings is a hose down to remove surface dirt.

If you’re looking for the best type of garages for your property, check with a manufacturer of steel buildings. There’s a good reason that metal buildings are often used to house vehicles, after all.