Anyone have a prebuilt shed?

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Does anyone have one or know about the construction of them?

I am looking at building a new barn for livestock and from pricing I can find these prebuilt sheds for cheaper than getting a barn built.

How are these constructed? Is the floor part of the structure? And do you think these could be set on a foundation?

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Genius said:
Does anyone have one or know about the construction of them?

I am looking at building a new barn for livestock and from pricing I can find these prebuilt sheds for cheaper than getting a barn built.

How are these constructed? Is the floor part of the structure? And do you think these could be set on a foundation?

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They’re usually built for cheaper than you can do it, but everything above the bare minimum is an extra cost.

How available are sea containers in your area? Set the cans how ever far apart and roof between the 2. I’ve seen more than one sea container that had been sided to pretty it up.
 
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Genius said:
Does anyone have one or know about the construction of them?

I am looking at building a new barn for livestock and from pricing I can find these prebuilt sheds for cheaper than getting a barn built.

How are these constructed? Is the floor part of the structure? And do you think these could be set on a foundation?

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I would say it depends on who builds them. There is a Amish outfit near here that builds Cardinal buildings that look pretty good.
 
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They sell them here too,Amish buildings, people convert the bigger ones and live in them, I think if you tell them what you want it for they will build it to code or whatever way you want. There seems to be a lot of different configurations you can pick. I've walked through them and looked. I didn't see any problems with my not so pro eyeballs, they seemed very professionally built.
 
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Genius said:
Does anyone have one or know about the construction of them?

I am looking at building a new barn for livestock and from pricing I can find these prebuilt sheds for cheaper than getting a barn built.

How are these constructed? Is the floor part of the structure? And do you think these could be set on a foundation?

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walls on floor construction
 
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thomas1 said:
They’re usually built for cheaper than you can do it, but everything above the bare minimum is an extra cost.

How available are sea containers in your area? Set the cans how ever far apart and roof between the 2. I’ve seen more than one sea container that had been sided to pretty it up.
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I‘ve looked at shipping containers but they are to narrow for my intended purpose, especially once I stud the inside and insulate.
 
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Yea, I did email a local company a few days ago and they finally replied. They said the floor is part of the structure and would weaken it to much for the move.

I‘m going to have to do some more investigating. I’ll need joist For the flooring, but I was planning on setting those on a ledge in the foundation and supporting them from the cement pad which would be about 1’ or so down.

I wish I was skilled at building, cause at this point I’d like to do it myself. But I struggle to nail two boards together much less erect a barn.
 
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I‘ve looked at shipping containers but they are to narrow for my intended purpose, especially once I stud the inside and insulate.
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That’s why you spread them apart and roof between them. Make the center as wide as you need.

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These are very popular here


A company called lifetite builds them 20 miles from me.
My friend ran it for many years
They are 3" Styrofoam panels
Sandwiched in metal
Very efficient.
We built him a 32x40 house out of them
His electric bill was like 50.00 a month last winter.
You can put whatever siding you like on them.

 
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Czed said:
These are very popular here

A company called lifetite builds them 20 miles from me.
My friend ran it for many years
They are 3" Styrofoam panels
Sandwiched in metal
Very efficient.
We built him a 32x40 house out of them
His electric bill was like 50.00 a month last winter.
You can put whatever siding you like on them.

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Something like that bottom pic looks close to the length and width I’m looking at. A perfect size barn to breed pigs in and to farrow them in.
 
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