I bought a 30 x 50ft metal building for my new shop. It's one of the standard gabled buildings (not a hoop or quonset structure). It's fairly standard except the eave height is 16ft and the roof pitch is 6/12. The "kit" is already at the shop site.
It was my original plan to erect it myself using the employees on the farm, but there's not enough "spare" time, so I have decided to have an erector do the job. I have now obtained 2 estimates. The first is from a guy who calls himself a "steel building erector". He bid $45,000 to do the slab and erect the building.
I got a bid from a second guy last week. He formerly put up such buildings for the gov't, but now he has a general contracting business. He bid $46,300 but that doesn't include subgrade prep which will be done by another guy- I don't have his bid yet.
The site is absolutely flat. I do not want any electrical or plumbing done. There is no rock in the soil (i.e., easy site to build). What do you folks think is a reasonable price for this project? Are these estimates in line with prices in your area? Is it that difficult to put one of these buildings up?
Bluegrass
It was my original plan to erect it myself using the employees on the farm, but there's not enough "spare" time, so I have decided to have an erector do the job. I have now obtained 2 estimates. The first is from a guy who calls himself a "steel building erector". He bid $45,000 to do the slab and erect the building.
I got a bid from a second guy last week. He formerly put up such buildings for the gov't, but now he has a general contracting business. He bid $46,300 but that doesn't include subgrade prep which will be done by another guy- I don't have his bid yet.
The site is absolutely flat. I do not want any electrical or plumbing done. There is no rock in the soil (i.e., easy site to build). What do you folks think is a reasonable price for this project? Are these estimates in line with prices in your area? Is it that difficult to put one of these buildings up?
Bluegrass