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Old 03-19-2008, 07:42 PM   #17 (permalink)
IXLR8
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Mid-Coast Maine
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Default Re: Opinions on Steel Buildings

As I dig further in to my Miracle Truss garage, the less happy I am with them. I find hardware missing, I have 2 rolls of sheet metal, 12" wide, that I have no idea what it is for. It is not called out anywhere in the directions/plans. I had the building designed with 2 overhead doors at one end and an entry door at the other end. The isometric view of the building shows the entry door, but none of the plans do! There is no framing for the door. The plans show wind bracing where the door goes! The plans show how to install sliding barn doors, which I don't have, but not the overhead doors that I do have! The plans call out that I use 2x8 KD for the roof rafters, but the local structural engineer insisted that 2x10's would be the absolute mininum with our snow loads, across a 10' span. MT insisted that 2x8's would be fine. I finally told them to figure the siding/roofing on using 2x10's or cancel the order. I am sure hoping that they made the changes to the siding and the roofing lengths for the 2x10's, won't know that for another month when it warms up enough to do some concrete/epoxy work to correct the Concrete companies mess ups. In summary, I am not real happy with Miracle Truss and I would never order from them again.
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