Base Your New Home on Steel Buildings

Steel buildings – they’re not just for storage anymore. Some of the most striking new home designs are based on steel buildings and steel building construction. If you’re looking for an economical and quick way to get your custom-built home up and livable, a steel building could be the perfect answer for you.

Save Time and Money

Steel buildings are prefabricated and delivered ready to erect, making them a much quicker option to traditional stick built homes. Depending on your local building codes, your steel home may not need a traditional basement and foundation, saving you the cost and time of digging a foundation. You can often put a steel building up over the course of a couple of weekends, and have it habitable almost immediately.

Building Code Compliance

Many companies that specialize in customizing metal buildings have an architectural department that will work with your specs to design the perfect home for you. While you need to be conversant with local building codes, the company will create a design for you that meets or exceeds all of your local building codes for residential use.

Energy Efficiency

Steel homes will save you money on energy costs as well. The steel frame construction is designed to fit tightly, and won’t shift and shrink the way that wood frame construction does. The weather tight construction guarantees no drafts or heat loss through the joints or chinks in the construction. Most manufacturers offer insulation options that will keep your home warm in the winter and cooler in the summer than most wood buildings.

Flexible Floor Plans

Unlike stick construction, which requires interior beams for load-bearing, most steel buildings derive their strength from their shape and require no interior beams or posts. The absence of interior support posts gives you an amazing amount of flexibility in designing your floor plan. Steel buildings are the ideal choice if you want a completely open floor plan.

Aesthetics and Appearance

Today, many steel buildings look nothing like, well, buildings made of steel. You can choose from many different styles and colors and customize your home with attractive windows, doors, trims and skylights. If you prefer – or if your local building codes require it – you can cover the steel with stone, brick or stucco facing to completely change the appearance.

Safety is a Steel Building

Steel is fire resistant, giving your steel home a natural boost when it comes to safety, but it’s also safer in other ways. Steel buildings are designed to withstand extreme weather conditions, from hurricane force winds to heavy snow loads that often collapse and damage roofs in stick-built homes. This can reduce your insurance costs as well as making you feel more secure in your home.

Steel buildings have many uses today, but the most surprising may be this one – high fashion, economical and safe homes. For more information on how a steel building could be the ideal solution for your residential needs, contact a supplier of steel buildings with your questions.