steel building homes

that's what we're gonna build if we build new. can puts LOTS of insulation in them, plus hydronic floor heat works well in them. open floor plan, can build short walls and change room sizes when ever ya want. low maintiance, others will chirp in.

Been researching same here.  Can have a Red Iron Shop/House Building up and standing on concrete for what would have in a small frame house as to costs.  Can then frame out interior on my time frame or hold until lumber pricing does drop.

Last summer I saw a home that was built using a large used steel grain bin.

Edited by Dusty MI - 20 Feb 2021 at 7:58am

When I built my house I had 1" of spray foam on outside wall then r-19 insulation then plastic then drywall. I has worked verywell. The resone for R-19 was I had already bought it to cover my basement floor to keep it from freezing the first winter without insulation .

shameless; we just snowbird in AZ; live the other 8 months in Nebraska!    I don't think i will get into the retro fitting of a grain bin or doing my own design.   The company i deal with must be big enuff to have blue prints available, then sends only what i need to build the house to a builder with experience on building steel building houses!

They now have metal with a moisture Barkley laminated to the back side.
We’ve built a couple.
They have a metal building company build the building then we come close it in and build the interior.
One in particular had 12’ walks but we built the inside with 8’ walls and a loft over the entire thing. Had a ton of storage up there and they insulated that ceiling. Those folks are quite happy with that one. Very efficient.

RUST!!!

Since alot of people just had a little taste of cold weather, one thing I will say is on a friends office area they built connected to the shop so they didn't use up shop space. Someone wasn't thinking and they put some water pipes in the north wall anyway a few winters back one cold spell they had frozen pipes. I don't know if it was pex just guessing because nothing broke. Part of the problem also is the wainscoting on the outside looks nice but it is another seam for cold air to blow in. When you look at what some of those guys have done with shop offices/lunch rooms it is easy to say I could live in that.

steve; not a design i would want but this is a picture of the kind of building that i wanted to know about!

  Building a building like that when your young is great but as you get older the stairs can become a problem. Where and attached home and garage-shop is more convenient 

i have a single story house with attached garage for most work.. Figured that out 40 years ago... Dont want a 2 story, but if i had one, i would make sure main bedroom  / kitchen / living room / laundry were all on the first floor... Upstairs could be long term storage, 2-3 bedrooms for kids when the visit , extra TV room, etc..

no stairs; something like a 3 bedroom 2 bath with oversized 3 car garage.   front to the east so an overhang on that side.

this is alot closer to what i want!

  A steel building seem like that would be less likely to happen if you used steel studs than with a wooden pole building.

there are companies that are building steel framed homes that look like any other house around. some include steel studs, some don't . we are looking at a "T" style, living T'd off a machinery type shed that is taller than the house part. with the steel wall inside the divided buildings, it creates a fire wall. aside from the heated floor, sewer pipes, other plumbing, and electrical, the old lady....oooops....i mean the loving wife and myself plan on finishing the interior ourselves. we have built our own bath and kitchen cabinets ourselves in the house we currantly live in. we also want knotty pine for walls, and unsure what the ceiling will be yet. there is a reason for the larger machine/garage area that i won't address at this time. having never had a garage before, it'll be a welcome site to be able to walk from the vehicle to the house in a dry non windy area.