Building Kits
Buying a Used Steel Building Kit and What to Check First
A used steel building kit listed at half the new price looks like the easiest money you will ever save, right up until the...
Structural estimator and buyer's guide writer
Grant spent over a decade pricing steel building jobs for a regional dealer before he started writing the numbers down for buyers instead of just for contractors. He explains a quote the way he would to a customer standing at his desk, line item by line item.
Building Kits
A used steel building kit listed at half the new price looks like the easiest money you will ever save, right up until the...
Costs and Pricing
You have a steel building quote in hand and the door line looks either suspiciously cheap or oddly expensive, and you cannot...
Building Kits
You have a steel building on order or already standing, and the tractor, the boat trailer or the firewood still has nowhere dry...
Costs and Pricing
You signed the quote, and now the supplier wants a check before anyone cuts a single purlin.
Materials and Specs
Two quotes land on your desk for the same 40x60 shop, and one lists PBR panel while the other lists R panel at a slightly lower...
Building Kits
You paid the deposit, the salesman said "about eight weeks," and now week eleven is ending with no truck in sight.