Thats the price you pay for quality and having someone else do it all for you.

So whats included in the price of the 40x60x16 metal building?

Freight costs to deliver to your property? Construction of building?

That $20-25k is the building materials delivered..... No construction labor. Most of the buildings can be assembled by at DIY guy with basic skills and time. Or you can pay to have it assembled

You can find them under $20k but like anything there are differences in design and quality and what you want for "bells and whistles"

The metal building is a totally different animal than a stick built building that is nicely finnished etc.... So it is an "apples to oranges" comparison.... Plus the DIY vs hire all the labor makes a big difference too...I just didn't realize that going rate was that high in CA

Unless your doing the slab yourself 2400 sf will cost you between $8-$10/sf.

So say $20K for slab, $25K for building delivered and then you have building costs with the addition of renting a Gradall or Sky Trak with say a 28' reach because a 16' would be the next size down in a loadall and you have 16' walls. In order to set 16' coloumns you'll need longer than 16' lift height which would be something like a model 5028 for say 4 weeks to set coloumns, horizontals, beams, trusses. Send the Sky Trac back, surround building with scaffolding and start siding. Siding complete, bring Sky Trac back and load roof. Not familiar with structure so I couldn't tell you how long you would need Sky Trac. Could be one day, could be a week. Then you have to rent scissor lift for any work in the building thats up high such as electrical and insullation, vent for plumbing....
I'm thinking 70K without seeing any drawings.

We built a 40x100x12 steel building/farm shop for a customer last year. It was $114,000 all in. Steel building package delivered, insulation, bottom 8' of interior lined with steel, labor, equipment, concrete, electrical, plumbing, overhead doors...

My own stick built 1000 sqft detached garage built to match our house was in the $46/sqft range with a good amount of outside cocnrete. We poured the footings and did the plumbing ourselves. The rest was hired done.

It's not CA so a little off topic but maybe gives guys in the upper midwest an idea of cost if they read this thread.

Just my comment, when you build go with a minimum 12ft ceiling. This will give you the headroom to install a lift at a later date.

yep. :thumbsup:

Not to far off considering you did some of the work yourself. Just out of curiosity, how long does it take you midwest boys to put up 1000 sf?

Build your own! I did!


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