Costs and Pricing
Steel Building Delivery Cost and What Freight Really Adds
You got a quote for a steel building, the shell price looked fair, and then a freight line showed up near the bottom that...
Structural estimator and buyer's guide writer, page 2 of 9
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.
Costs and Pricing
You got a quote for a steel building, the shell price looked fair, and then a freight line showed up near the bottom that...
Materials and Specs
A steel building with no natural light means running fixtures every hour you are inside, even at noon in June.
Costs and Pricing
You saw a steel building price per square foot of 12 dollars in an ad, then a supplier quoted you 31 dollars for the same...
Building Kits
You paid for a 40 year frame warranty, and now a roof panel is leaking at the ridge and the supplier says that is not covered.
Costs and Pricing
You have a kit quote in hand, and then the concrete contractor sends a number that is nearly half the price of the building...
Costs and Pricing
Last spring a customer in eastern Nebraska showed me two erection bids for the same 40x60 shop. One crew wanted $14,400.