The construction of our 30'x50' metal building – completed with prices and total cost

hey guys John angle here and today we're going to talk about building my shop now this is a 30 by 50 and I figured I'd give you some of my tips and tricks and also give you prices the best place to start the very beginning let's get started [Music] so the first thing that we had to do was clear the lot and we had one tree on there and I had a friend come over with their Kubota thanks Gary and basically we took this tree up and it became a bigger war deal than we thought it was going to be took us about three hours but we finally did it and then he leveled the ground after that I was able to contract some workers that were going to do the concrete work now this became a little bit of an issue as we had some requirements for the actual metal building such as twelve by twelve turn down and all that means is that there is a 1 foot by 1 foot square all around the perimeter to help keep that concrete base in place and also it gives a good anchoring point for the metal building now you have to have two number-two rebar put in there and we also if you notice we put a fiber mesh underneath just to help with rigidity and also to make sure that everything was settled correctly we put two spots in here that were for a lift now the lift is not currently in there but we will be getting a lift so we went ahead and put these two spots in there and there I think that there's somewhere around a foot thick on each one of those so that everything will be there and never have any problems with the actual concrete itself the rest of the slab is four inches now you may be wondering for a 30 by 54 inches thick we've got the the rebar we've got the mesh without the turndowns how much that actually costs the price went up a few times during this process as we found out that we needed more more it ended up costing me $9,000 for the concrete now I think that that is a fair price I don't think that that was a steal I was hoping to get a little better and originally it was a much better price but 9,000 is what I put into the concrete alone all right then we've got the metal building itself and as you can see I have work as you can't see I had some video of them actually putting it up but I can no longer access that footage because it became corrupt but I do have a video of the very first outside picture and you can see that's metal siding white doors and everything is just done with this metal building I do want to take you through some of the features of this metal building that I selected and what I put on there so I think the best thing that we can do is take a look at the metal building now I think starting with the outside now this is current day so you can tell that I've already bricked the full exterior I've painted these doors so that they match the doors on the house garage so everything looks as good as possible I even put up a false little lamp that's not hooked to any electricity because we have no electricity in here but it matches so that HOA would be happy you can see that we've got one door here and two windows on the opposite side all you have are the tip windows which are fine they come with the kit this door I went ahead and painted just so it matches because if you don't paint it it's just the standard white all right so inside you can see that there's another door all the way in the back that was extra but I wanted to be able to drive through so I can use this door and drive all the way through to this side so that makes it very nice you can also tell that there is insulation on the roof now this is not insulation that's going to keep it warmer or cooler this is insulation that keeps it from having any condensation and because we're in the south and it's very humid this is almost a must it was an extra in the price of the the full building you can see that they put these windows up and they're great for light coming in as you can see there's light but they do leak around here you can actually see some of the light coming through so what I'm gonna have to do is put some foam insulation or some rubber caulking or something to help with that and I just wanted to let you guys know that you do have some leaking around these windows if you have a pretty bad storm other than that I have no leaking from the ceiling two guys installed this whole thing in a total of three days now this a 30 by 50 so I can actually fit nine cars in here if I wanted to right now we have the six cars up front we've got one here and I could fit one and one so two more in here no electricity no nothing just the building to be put onto this site with the addition of the insulation in this one door this building cost me seventeen thousand dollars from elite metal structures I didn't think that was a bad price that's for them to do everything I sent them the money they come out here and they installed the building put it up do everything clean up and all I had left was a stock metal building in the garage on the floor you can see that it's got some shine to it I have a video that I'll link in the description below on the eagle brand sealant that I used on here really cool video really easy to do really cheap makes the floor so much easier to clean up and to take care of and also gives you kind of that wet floor look and more of a professional appearance for just a concrete floor here's a good example of what I had to do for the homeowners association was it's a metal building and we're not allowed to have any structures that don't resemble the main house so I hired a guy that came out and he actually did this beautiful job on the brickwork and as you can see even matched the Kings row I think is what is called from the house right onto the garage I put on the light just to make sure that it fit everything looked great this brickwork just for the front cost $3,000 but that included everything that brick the labor and doing that I did have to paint these doors like I said earlier so that worked out but the smartest thing I did was get the building in a color that kind of resembled the brick so from the side when you look at this you don't right away notice this a metal building you almost think especially from the road you think that it's all brick alright guys hopefully that helped you out a little bit now remember it's a 30 by 50 it's got 12 foot walls so I did go a little higher so that I could get that lift in there the concrete is four inches thick for the base that's got 12 by 12 turndowns with rebar I put fiber mesh underneath it and then I put this spots that the lift will actually sit on and then the brickwork on the outside so you've got you've got nine thousand dollars for the cement you've got seventeen thousand dollars for the actual building and install and then three thousand dollars for the brick work which I think comes out to somewhere around $29,000 overall I'm very happy with what I was able to do and kind of contract on my own I couldn't have done this without the help of friends obviously with that tree that would have added an additional expense I did do some things like painting the doors cost me a little bit of money and doing the flooring which makes such a big difference cost me about a hundred bucks so I don't even equate that in there and that's nothing that you have to do hopefully this has helped you if you have any questions leave those in the comments below please like and subscribe we'll catch you next time [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 8min 7sec (487 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 15 2020