Once you are a satisfied SteelMaster owner, we invite you to join our Partners in Steel referral program. The program is designed to encourage you to refer friends, family and neighbors to SteelMaster that are interested in purchasing a steel building. In addition, we will contact you if we have someone in your area that would like to see your building and speak with you about your SteelMaster buildings. The letter below comes from Chris W. in Emigrant, MT when he signed up to be a member of Partners in Steel.
Our building is a 25 X 40 with three skylights and our own custom designed and framed end walls. We chose the X Model for its different lines (not so industrial or agricultural looking) and its superior snow-load capacity. We live in hilly / mountainous terrain in the Rocky Mountains at 5200 feet elevation, and needed a place to store our garden produce (and tools) in a non-freezing environment through the colder months. We designed the building to include such storage by pouring a 6-foot concrete retaining wall in the north gable end, and backfilling soil to that level. We build a loft for storage of garden equipment with an entry at ground level on the north end, which also serves as the ceiling for our cool root cellar storage area. We will have a workshop in the middle section, and more loft and general storage in the south one third of the building. It is the end of September and we are still finishing the interior, and have furthe r landscaping to do outside.
We began our site preparations in late June, formed the footings and poured the concrete. Once the footings cured we erected two of the building’s panels at the north end, formed the retaining wall tying it into the first erected panel, and poured the wall the end of July. By the first week in August we had assembled the panels in workable sections, and began final assembly of the complete panels as we erected them. It took 3 men and a 13-year old 4 days to get all the panels in place and assembled together.
Once the brackets were installed, we grouted the panels to the foundation, laid in our drain tile around the foundation, back filled, and began constructing the gable end walls and interior.
Bottom line: We are pleased with the structural strength and the aesthetics of our building and will recommend SteelMaster to others.
Our building is a 25 X 40 with three skylights and our own custom designed and framed end walls. We chose the X Model for its different lines (not so industrial or agricultural looking) and its superior snow-load capacity. We live in hilly / mountainous terrain in the Rocky Mountains at 5200 feet elevation, and needed a place to store our garden produce (and tools) in a non-freezing environment through the colder months. We designed the building to include such storage by pouring a 6-foot concrete retaining wall in the north gable end, and backfilling soil to that level. We build a loft for storage of garden equipment with an entry at ground level on the north end, which also serves as the ceiling for our cool root cellar storage area. We will have a workshop in the middle section, and more loft and general storage in the south one third of the building. It is the end of September and we are still finishing the interior, and have furthe r landscaping to do outside.
We began our site preparations in late June, formed the footings and poured the concrete. Once the footings cured we erected two of the building’s panels at the north end, formed the retaining wall tying it into the first erected panel, and poured the wall the end of July. By the first week in August we had assembled the panels in workable sections, and began final assembly of the complete panels as we erected them. It took 3 men and a 13-year old 4 days to get all the panels in place and assembled together.
Once the brackets were installed, we grouted the panels to the foundation, laid in our drain tile around the foundation, back filled, and began constructing the gable end walls and interior.
Bottom line: We are pleased with the structural strength and the aesthetics of our building and will recommend SteelMaster to others.
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