Steel Homes - Anyone With Experience
I recently started aquiring vacant land through tax sales and wanted to do more....
I looked into steel homes mainly because I found them cheap and I would be able to do the inside..
Anyone have experience with this or comments and suggestions? :-?
Post back or PM if you end up doing this.
I have been looking into "panelized" construction. Pretty interesting.
Well I'm trying to get more info on how much it will cost (approx) to put the slab and piping down. I can't imagine that much ...but I'm a newbie.. I think it can be huge. I know the insides on these steel homes come empty but I plan on getting the 900sqft and making a huge studio apartment.
You'd be amazed what concrete and foot work costs.
There are several construction estimating s'ware packages that are index by zip, so they are fairly accurate.
I found the doing google search.
You sould say
20x40 6" slab w/ blah rebar
120' x 6" x 42" footing
and then it would calc the cost.
You might just want to chat w/ some GCs in the area and get a feel for the spread.
Here it seems to run 100/sq ft for production construction to ~200 for a really nice custom place.
Good like. In certain markets, that can be a very profitable way to go.
While researching leach fields, I came across this:
Looked quite informative.
http://www.toolbase.org/secondaryT.asp?TrackID=&CategoryID=1538
We looked at metal fourplexes from heritage metal buildings, and it worked out about 30% cheaper to build stick framed houses using panelized components.
I would like to know the benefits of steel frame other than the modest time savings, if you are familiar with them. I live in a cold area, and insulation is supposed to be better in stick framed construction due to marginal heat loss via conductivity through the metal. :-?