Your Next DIY Project: A Steel Building
Steel storage buildings are surprisingly simple to erect. A do-it-yourself metal garage kit will contain all the necessary components needed to erect your new storage building.
Construction Tips: Garage Doors
There are two main options when it comes to overhead garage doors for your steel building: sectional and rolling sheet doors.
Construction Tips: Lighting Options
There are two main options for providing light to your steel building. Whether or not you will be running electricity to your building can be a determining factor for what kind of lighting you end up using. For those who are not using electricity or those who are looking to supplement with natural lighting, skylights are the best option.
Construction Tips: What is Galvalume Plus?
Galvalume Plus was created in the late 1990’s as an improvement to the standard coated steel product of the time, Galvalume. Instead of the oily finish that came with Galvalume, Galvalume Plus features a thin, clear, dry organic coating.
Steel Building Construction Tips: Ventilation
Adding a ventilation system to your SteelMaster steel building is the most cost effective way to allow air flow throughout the space and to help maintain a temperate climate. Building owners can easily install a variety of ventilation options using simple hand tools.
Steel Building Construction: Window Installation
One of the best ways to get natural light and cross-ventilation in your SteelMaster steel building is to install windows in your endwalls. If you are using our steel endwalls, the process of adding windows is quite simple. Below are step-by-step directions for installing windows in your metal building endwalls.
How to Install a Side Service Door
The process for installing a side service door is simple in a SteelMaster steel building. Our step-by-step construction tips show you how to install a door in the straight wall on the side of your building.
Video: Steel Building Construction
We often have customers send us photos and videos from their construction process. Here’s one that we recently received from Jack A. in Fresno, CA.
How to Offload Your Steel Building
Customers often ask us about the delivery process of their steel building so we thought it might be helpful to provide a few tips for offloading a SteelMaster building.
What Is a Quonset Hut?
Around SteelMaster, we talk about quonset huts frequently, but what exactly is a quonset hut? The semicircular steel buildings were made popular by the U.S. military during WWII.
