Sorry a little off topic. How do you like your steel quonset? Were did you get yours from? And how much did it run you?
I've looked at steelmaster and there large buildings realy are not that cost efective over stick built pole buildings. And the fact that I could not easily figure out an easy way to insulate I looked elsewere.
Now again the sprayed foam is intreging. If it sticks to the steal and seals all the seams and does not detiriourate over time and start falling off. This is making steal quonsit type buildings a viable option again. I'll have to continue some research on this.
it's not off topic, it's insulation related
i love it, totally bad ass. Dad's boss had him do a jobsite, and he saw the building, and asked the owner was the story was, said you can have it if you move it, if it doesn't move, it's getting plowed down. So, we moved it. A job it was, but man, it was worth every effort, 2 weeks and gas money. The panels are kinda curved, ribbed you could say. It was galvanized, and we ended up heating every nut with a torch and zapping apart with a cordless drill, naturally that destroyed the gal coating, so we sand blasted the essential overlapping areas, sealed with paint (can't remember the name, have to dig up some paperwork) and quick put it up. after it was up, finished sand blasting and coating. We have our own sand and sandblaster. 472 caddy with a 4 speed running 2 separate 2 stage compressors, also turning a supercharger that forces air in the intakes, and they're serious compressors, caddy has all it can do to run them in granny gear......pumping into 4x500 gal tanks.
Friend of a friend gave us a deal, ended up costing $7000 to spray, so we did only 1". It was overwhelming how much 1" accomplished. It was so effective, we're not concrned about adding more.
It had a 12" I beam full lenght for the far top center for support, i used that for an attic hoist, then the attic itself sits on top of I beams, so i have a 35ton hoist that floats full width and lenght of the building. Next up is to put a pit in the floor. Off topic that was.
We were told the building was 50 years old (Not sure how true that holds), but, the steel was in excellent condition, starting to fad and surface rust, but some blasting and painting, and it's to last quite a while in my time. I'm very very satisfied with it.
Basically i was out the time to move it clean it and assemble it, gas money to move it and blast it, and paint it.
If i came across another one, i'd be on it quicker then stink on ####.