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Posted by Pete C. on April 25, 2007, 4:50 pm
Steve B wrote:
>
> > Steve B wrote:
> >>
> >> I want to get a metal building. I called contractors. For a 1500 sf
> >> building, they want $55,000 to $65,000 for a total job.
> >>
> >> I have found building packages that size for around $15,000, and that was
> >> from name brand major suppliers.
> >>
> >> I see ads all the time in the paper for metal buildings that someone
> >> cancelled, and they are going to sell this package "really cheap." I
> >> tend
> >> to not believe these, or figure they are selling these 300 x 600
> >> buildings
> >> in the paper trying to get in the people who want smaller buildings, and
> >> they switch them to another package. (I have also seen car dealerships
> >> that
> >> say their buyer has bought thousands too many of certain cars, and I
> >> don't
> >> believe that either.)
> >>
> >> Has anyone built or had built an approximately 1500 sf metal building,
> >> and
> >> what were the costs? Headaches? Warnings?
> >>
> >> My slab will take about 30 yards of concrete, plus some wire and rebar.
> >> I
> >> think that would be $7,000 tops with concrete and labor. Flat work is
> >> flat
> >> work, and extra on top of that. Any awnings or lean to roofs would be
> >> additional, too.
> >>
> >> Bottom line, I think I can do it for half or less than what they want. I
> >> can weld, and have steel erection experience. What do you think?
> >>
> >> Steve
> >
> > Why would you even consider contracting anything beyond the foundation?
> > It's an excuse to rent a telehandler and have a BBQ with your buddies at
> > the very least. With the foundation properly completed, a telehandler
> > and several competent friends I can't see basic structural assembly
> > taking more than a day.
>
> I have some medical "issues" which are beginning to limit me.
Your excuse to remain comfortably in the operators seat of the rented
telehandler :)
> A couple of
> my ships have arrived in port, and things are good financially.
Lucky you, I think my ships capsized in a storm and dumped my containers
of loot in the middle of the ocean.
> STILL, it
> was all I could do not to laugh in the guy's face that told me $65,000 for
> the building. I was a steel erection contractor, did some fast math in my
> head, and said, "That leaves you with more than $30,000 clear profit." He
> didn't like that, and started explaining about all the "engineering costs,
> permits, blah, blah, blah." He didn't even have the balls to say, "I'm in
> business to make money", which is what I would have said.
Unless you're looking for something odd, those buildings should all be
pre engineered so it's just permits and labor. Certainly he's got to
have a profit margin, but he doesn't need to buy a new boat entirely on
your jobs profit.
>
> But still, I'll get out there, find a band of buddies, fire up the barbecue,
> provide lots of food and drinks, and Git-r-done. The extra thirty thousand
> will more than pay for a car lift, a complete Plasmacam system, flatwork all
> around, some leanto awnings for shade, and LOTS of trick tools and gadgets
> for the inside of the shop. Probably a few grand left over to go relax at
> Mazatlan for a few weeks, too.
Exactly, gotta have stuff to put in the new building, or perhaps upgrade
it's HVAC.
>
> Do these people think you can't even operate a calculator?
I expect so, and with recent "graduates" of our "educational" system I
expect they are correct. The latest batch can't even figure out the
mileage their car is getting.
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