Having a pole building built

[Duffster]

Like this

 

[EddieWalker]

$18 a sq ft seems a touch on the high side, but not rediculous. It's also a regional thing, so it might sound like allot to me where labor is cheap compared to other areas where labor and permitting are expensive. If it's a company with a good reputation and a history of quality workmanship, then that's all that really matters.

How far from your home and water source will the building be? Having water, or not having water, is something I would strongly think about. This building will be there for a very long time, and I think having water available at the building is one of those must haves. One spickit at the front near your big door and another inside. If you have permit issues with putting a sink inside the building because of no septic tank, then just add it later after the final inspection is done. For an inside sink, you just run a drain out to the bushes to water the plants. As for dealing with freezing temps and not being there, it's done all the time with weekend cabins and other rarely used buildings. Put a good quality gate valve in the ground where you can easily get to it year round. I've seen them outside of buildings, but don't care for that as it's a pain to turn on and off if it's raining out side or snow on the ground. Putting it inside the building keeps it safe and easy to turn on and off.

Eddie

 

[Duffster]

$18 a sq ft seems a touch on the high side, but not rediculous. It's also a regional thing, so it might sound like allot to me where labor is cheap compared to other areas where labor and permitting are expensive. If it's a company with a good reputation and a history of quality workmanship, then that's all that really matters.

How far from your home and water source will the building be? Having water, or not having water, is something I would strongly think about. This building will be there for a very long time, and I think having water available at the building is one of those must haves. One spickit at the front near your big door and another inside. If you have permit issues with putting a sink inside the building because of no septic tank, then just add it later after the final inspection is done. For an inside sink, you just run a drain out to the bushes to water the plants. As for dealing with freezing temps and not being there, it's done all the time with weekend cabins and other rarely used buildings. Put a good quality gate valve in the ground where you can easily get to it year round. I've seen them outside of buildings, but don't care for that as it's a pain to turn on and off if it's raining out side or snow on the ground. Putting it inside the building keeps it safe and easy to turn on and off.

Eddie

Post frames in snow country are a different animal than in Texas

 

[yooperdave]

Some pole building builders own a back hoe and are able to dig their own holes - regardless of most conditions.

Make sure you have a contingency plan to dig out any rocks, as Cleary threw their hands up in the air quickly leaving me in the learch to buy my neighbor's hoe services.

My Cleary dealer was out of Escanaba - is that the same location you are talking to?

Good Luck

Yooper Dave

 

[thunderworks]

An electrical suggestion for your shop/pole building . . . put your electrical in metal flex conduit to keep the critters from chewing the wires. Costs increase, but not nearly as much as dealing with chewed wires buried in the wall a few years down the road.

 

[hanson1999]

if you put a hydrant in like the previous post said, do not have it coming up through concrete. eventually it will wear out then you have to chop concrete to fix it. come up through the floor with plastic flex pipe, maybe you could have it feeding from a house or other structure where you can shut it off and push some antifreeze through for cold season???

 

[Dave5264]

Water out to the building is doable, Im up in Northern Ontario, we get the extremem freezing. The water line to the barn has a spigot/tap in the barn and a spigot/tap at the house along with a shut off in the house. I made an adapter that screws on to the Tap/Spigot at the house, this adapter has an air hose quick connect on it so i can hook up my air compressor, open the tap in the barn and blow all the water out. thus no freeze up in the winter.

 

[smfcpacfp]

My house will be a hundred or so feet from the front of my metal building. If I ever need water, I can just string some hose together.

Having continuous water, sewer is just not an important isssue for me despite everything said here. I can't imagine why I would ever need it, except sometimes when welding. I will continue to wash vehicles, etc where I do now.

 

[smfcpacfp]

Some pole building builders own a back hoe and are able to dig their own holes - regardless of most conditions.

Make sure you have a contingency plan to dig out any rocks, as Cleary threw their hands up in the air quickly leaving me in the learch to buy my neighbor's hoe services.

My Cleary dealer was out of Escanaba - is that the same location you are talking to?

Good Luck

Yooper Dave

Yes the dealer is out of Escanaba. My soil is pure beach sand down 200 feet at least. If you can find a rock anywhere on my property, I would gvie you $100. All of my rock is imported.

 

[Dave5264]

momentarily off topic smfcpacfp, but.... Nice Vette. im a C4 vette guy, but id love a yellow c6