Why You Should Choose Steel Buildings for Your Project

There are a number of excellent reasons that make steel buildings ideal for many projects, including garages, carports, home workshops, manufacturing facilities and garden sheds. Here are just a few of the great reasons you should consider choosing a metal building for your next construction project, no matter what it is.

Steel Buildings Do Not Warp

Heavy duty steel doesn’t warp like wood can, even in wet climates. A properly engineered steel building will stand for decades without the floors buckling or walls shifting.

Metal Buildings Are Not Fire Hazards

Steel is naturally fire-resistant, and most steel building components are treated with fire retardants to make them even safer. Which leads to the next reason you should consider steel buildings…

Steel Buildings Cost Less to Insure

Fire resistance is just one of the reasons that insurance companies love steel buildings. Steel is less prone to many of the hazards that befall wood construction, including mold and mildew, which can give rise to high insurance settlements. Among the other things that don’t bother steel buildings are…

Termites Don’t Much Care for Metal Buildings

Which means that you won’t have to worry about termite infestation if you decide to on a steel building kit for your garden shed or pool house. And since insects don’t lay their eggs in steel, you’re not likely to have to deal with any annoying woodpeckers trying to find grubs in the walls of steel garages, or, for that matter…

No Rafters for Birds to Perch In

Garden buildings and grain storage buildings tend to attract nesting birds who hang out in the rafters. Steel buildings have no rafters, so there will be no birds hanging out to foul up your precious possessions.

Lots of Usable Space

The lack of rafters has another benefit – it’s a side effect of the way metal buildings are constructed. The most common construction, derived from Quonset buildings, is steel arch construction. There are no interior beams or rafters, so all of the interior space is usable, from floor to ceiling.

Expand at Will

Most steel buildings are easy to expand, as long as you have the land to do it. In most cases, steel buildings can be as long as you want them to be. They consist of steel framing components, hoops and end caps. When you want to expand, pull off one of the end caps, add on to the length and replace the end cap.

Whatever project your considering, steel buildings offer many advantages. Before committing to any other type of construction, take a closer look at the benefits of building with steel.