Garage/Shop Building Program - Easy to Use

[IH Cub Cadet]

Hope I'm not getting off the path with this post, but here is a cool website that has a program on it where you can design your outdoor carport or shed. It's pretty slick with drag and drop windows and doors - with an estimated cost.

Here's the link: http://www.carolinacarportsinc.com/

We see a lot of these steel carports and buildings in my neck of the woods. Some say they won't hold up to the higher winds or snow loads, but I rarely see one damaged except by a driver backing into the side of it trying to park.

Another reason folks use these is they are not so costly and for me the attraction is in my crap neighborhood, one doesn't want to invest to much $$$'s into the place unless you want to loose $$$'s on the resale someday when we move into the mansion, sell all the tractors and buy all new JD and Kubota tractors...

[cub149]

Nothing at all wrong with those metal buildings. I bought a house with some acreage a few years ago and needed a shop on the cheap. I stuck some poles in the ground (uneven ground) and built a floor. Then just set up the building on it and lag bolted it down. Put on sides and wala, a shop. Of course when I did this a 20 x 20 carport was only like $395 or so plus the cost for the sides. This was before the great depression, oops I mean the recession. I even found free 3" thick insulation from a beer warehouse they where tearing down. I then added a room on both sides, etc................. Easy construction and FAST.
I have now sold that place and upgraded but it was nice to have, fast and cheap.