Five Ways Steel Buildings Save You Money

All around the country, steel buildings are cropping up in the most unusual places. They’re one of the most popular choices for homeowners who want to replace or build garages, and they make great barns and grain storage buildings on farms. Small steel buildings are ideal for use as home workshops and offices when outfitted with plumbing, interior finishing and electricity, and larger buildings are being used around the country as houses of worship, warehouses, factory buildings and retail stores. What’s the major attraction of steel buildings? While there are a number benefits to metal buildings, the bottom line is most often the bottom line. In nearly every way and at every stage of their usable lives, steel buildings are the economical choice. Here are five ways that steel buildings save you money from start to finish.

More Affordable to Buy

Steel is nearly always the most affordable building material available, so you start out with less expensive materials from the very beginning. The manufacturing process is designed to be cost-efficient, with all the engineering done in a computer program before a single piece of steel is extruded or cut. With the help of computer programs, there’s very little wasted material, making steel buildings cheaper to buy than most other types of buildings.

More Affordable to Build

Steel buildings are ready to erect when they arrive on site. There’s no need to measure and cut anything. You don’t have to frame anything or dig a foundation. In fact, all you have to do is bolt the pieces to the foundation and to each other, then do the finish work. That means you’re only paying a construction crew for days instead of weeks or weeks instead of months – unless, of course, you choose to do the work yourself, in which case your metal building costs you even less to erect.

More Affordable to Maintain

A wooden building will require scraping and repainting every four to five years in order to stay looking fresh and new. A concrete building will require sandblasting and cleaning periodically to deal with the effects and staining of the environment. A metal building, on the other hand, generally comes with a corrosion-resistant powder color coating that’s guaranteed for 20 years or more. In most cases, the only maintenance you’ll need to do for the building exterior is a thorough power-wash a couple of times a year to remove debris and dirt.

More Affordable to Manage

In addition to standard maintenance costs, you’ll also spend less on energy for your new steel building. Most steel buildings today are manufactured to exacting high-efficiency energy standards. They often include high-energy efficiency roofs and are specifically designed to make them easy to insulate. Those savings add up to a considerable amount over the course of a few decades.

More Affordable to Demolish

Finally, if and when you decide to remove your steel building, demolition will be far less expensive. In fact, because you can simply deconstruct the building, you can even sell it and have the buyer take it apart and put it together again on his own site. If you actually demolish the building, though, the metal can be sold for recycling, greatly defraying the cost of demolition.

As you can see, steel buildings are not only more economical to buy and build, but will save you money throughout their usable lives and beyond. Why would you choose another type of construction when steel buildings offer so many advantages?