House Your Vehicles Safely in Steel Buildings

Garaging your car can take a nice bite out of your insurance premiums because it reduces the chances of your vehicle being damaged by the weather, falling tree branches or other cars. While many suburban homes were built with garages, many homes don’t come standard with a place to store your car. With some cars costing as much as your mother paid for her house these days, it only makes sense to protect your vehicle – but erecting a garage can be a costly and complicated process. Steel buildings are an excellent alternative to traditional garages, offering all of the advantages of a garage with none of the drawbacks of wooden construction.

Economical and Easy

Steel buildings are less expensive than traditional wood garages at every part of their life cycle. A standard arch construction steel structure usually doesn’t require a full foundation, eliminating the expense of digging one out. In most cases, you’ll only need concrete footings and a poured concrete slab for the floor. Many steel garage kits come complete with everything you need to put up your garage except the concrete for the floor. You’ll reduce construction costs even further if you do it yourself – something totally doable for an experienced home handyman with a couple of friends.

Ecologically Friendly

Most steel buildings on the market today are made of 100 percent recycled steel, so you’re not contributing to the use of non-renewable resources when you build a steel garage. Instead, you’re actually keeping the materials out of the landfills and waste stream, which is an important part of bettering our planet. And unlike wooden construction, when steel buildings reach the end of their usefulness – which can extend far more than their nominal 50 year guarantees – they can be taken apart and recycled.

Steel Buildings Are Low Maintenance and Weather-Tight

Wooden buildings require periodic maintenance and are prone to problems you won’t ever have to worry about if you choose to build a steel garage. The powder coated color on your steel building doesn’t ever need repainting – unless, of course, you choose to change the color. It won’t peel, mildew or stain the way that wood does. You also won’t have to deal with infestations of carpenter ants or termites or for that matter, woodpeckers rat-a-tat-tatting you awake in the morning. In addition, the joints on steel buildings fit closely, making them more weather-tight and water-tight than wood construction. They’re also built to withstand high winds and other extremes of weather.

If you’re considering building a garage to house your vehicle or add storage to your home, steel buildings are an excellent alternative to traditional wood construction. For more information, talk to a representative of a supplier of steel and metal buildings.