Maintenance-Free is the Key to Steel Buildings

For the past 15 years, State Farm Insurance Agent A. Dean Chelton has hooked up a trailer to his truck and made the long trek from his home in Centerville, PA to Montana to go deer and elk hunting. In recent years, he traded in his canvas pop-up trailer for a fully-equipped travel trailer to bring on his annual expedition.

But instead of leaving it outside and exposed to the sun, wind, rain, sleet, and snow when not in use, Chelton decided it was time to buy a building to store it in. "I always keep my car parked in my garage, so it made sense to do the same for the travel trailer," says Chelton. "I just wasn't comfortable keeping it outside anymore."

When Chelton began researching his options for a storage building, he only had one stipulation-no wood. Already the owner of two wood storage buildings, he was weary of all the maintenance that they required. "I am tired of having to replace the roofs every so often, paint the siding, and a whole host of other things that have to happen to keep the buildings looking good," says Chelton.

During the course of doing research for a new building on the Internet, Chelton came across a picture of a SteelMaster steel building. "Right away I knew I had found my solution-the style was there, but more importantly, a SteelMaster building doesn't require any maintenance."

"With a SteelMaster buildings you don't have to treat it, paint it, or maintain it-all that is left is to enjoy it," says Michelle Wickum, SteelMaster's director of marketing. "The Galvalume Plus coating provides years of maintenance-free use, and the rugged resilient steel will take the bumps and bangs common to a working storage building. In addition, steel does not rot, warp, shrink, or split, and it is non-combustible. Steel's inherent strength resists fire, earthquake, and hurricane damage."

While constructing the building, Chelton hit a few snags along the way, so he called SteelMaster to see if anyone there could help him. "The people I spoke with at SteelMaster-from the receptionist to the salesperson to the engineer—they were all very well informed and provided terrific customer service," says Chelton. From the building itself to the people at SteelMaster, I couldn't be more pleased at how everything turned out. They are a top-notch company with a top-notch product."

In addition to storage buildings, SteelMaster's steel and metal pre-engineered buildings are designed for a broad range of residential and commercial applications including Garages, Workshops, Carports, Quonsets, Airplane Hangars, RV Storage, Military Buildings, Commercial Warehousing, and Industrial Storageas well as a wide variety of Custom Building applications including Athletic Facilities, Retail Stores, Churches, Bus Stops, Smoke Shacks, Doggie Dorms, and Correctional Facilities.