Five Reasons to Choose Steel Buildings for Storage Sheds

 Lawn equipment, patio furniture and kids’ toys can take up valuable space in your garage, forcing you to leave your car out in the driveway. If you’ve collected a lawnmower, a snow blower, a handful of rakes and garden equipment or a garden tractor, chances are that you’ve considered building a storage shed on your property. While there are many options available on the market, steel buildings offer numerous advantages as storage sheds.

Steel Buildings are Inexpensive

Prefabricated metal buildings are less expensive than wood frame construction. If you purchase a pre-designed building kit from a manufacturer, you’ll get everything you need to put up your building. While wood frame storage shed kits may seem less expensive, they only provide the plans and the fasteners for your building. When you add in the cost of the lumber, a wood frame building will almost always cost more than a steel building of comparable size.

Do It Yourself Construction

There’s no need to hire a contractor or carpenter to assemble a steel building. A homeowner with basic do-it-yourself skills and a few friends can usually put up a steel storage shed without professional help, usually in a weekend. Steel building kits come with all parts pre-drilled and ready to put together. Detailed plans simplify the process so that just about anyone can successfully put up a steel storage shed.

No Foundation Needed

Most small metal buildings need no foundation other than concrete footings for the main support posts. You can choose to build a storage shed with a dirt floor, a wood floor or build your storage shed on a poured concrete slab. You save the time and expense of digging a foundation, and avoid the worry of digging into pipes or electrical lines.

Cheaper Insurance

Because steel buildings are inherently safer than wood frame construction, your homeowners’ insurance will be cheaper than if you’d built a wooden storage shed. Steel storage sheds are fire resistant and weather resistant.

Low Maintenance

Once your storage shed is erected, you won’t have to do much more in the way of maintenance. Steel buildings are generally guaranteed for 20 to 40 years, and they’ll look just as good at the end of that term as they do when you first put them up. They’re rust-resistant and resistant to rot. Steel is of no interest to pests like carpenter ants or termites, and the pre-painted steel panels never need repainting or refinishing. Maintenance is as simple as hosing the shed down once in a while to remove surface dirt.

In addition, steel buildings come in a variety of attractive colors and styles that will fit into your landscape and look good standing next to your house. For more information about metal buildings used as storage sheds, garages and other household storage uses, contact a manufacturer or vendor of prefabricated steel buildings.