Pole barn style shop estimate

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Silverado_Express

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Trying to pull the trigger on a shop. Have tried to get estimates on stick built, metal buildings, and the like. Just got an estimate on a 30x40 pole barn style (6x6 post) with 12ft ceiling, 2 10x10 roll ups and 3ft walk in with insulation and concrete for about 29k.
Is this good? What has anyone really gotten a building for? Not just a "bills fish and chips and buildings said he could do it for $Xxx"
 
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Friend just finished 50x36 and had $30k in it when finished
 
Im building a 36'x36' pole barn with studded walls , I think it was $34k for the building with studded walls and tyvec wrap
 

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that includes concrete and turn key?

following along here. About to make same leap
 
I'm seeing "my friend just did..." And "I'm building..." I should include that I will not be building it. I don't have time or skill to properly build what I want. I just want someone to come in and in 2 weeks I have a shop.
I'm assuming labor is a tremendous amount of cost that may not be factored in the above responses
 
I'm in around 45K. 17ft at eaves, 40 by 40, 14 by 14 sheet doors, 4 inch insulation all walls and ceiling, wanes coat, three color trim, two insulated walk doors, three windows, gutters and downspouts, slab with rebar and fiber mesh finished smooth, and I cannot remember the pitch but its steeper then traditional just enough. All red iron and with a stamp.

Every pole barn builder at this height was as much or more with no concrete. The height was so when its really hot and I'm older a can work on my RV roof standing straight up in the comfort of AC......trying to look ahead. Or something like that. I will also be using alot of the overhead for second floor storage, and a indoor crane I am building.....again I do not plan on lifting heavy stuff all my life.

Turn key because I felt just like you about building it.
 
(circa 2013ish) I got a phone quote from a local guy for around $22k for a 34x40x12, no concrete, no insulation. National Barn quoted $12k for 30x40x12, no concrete, no insulation. Got a lot of dead ends and no callbacks. Ended up building a 34x40x13.5 myself for about $15k including concrete, being as reasonably cheap on everything that I could (I know that's not helpful, but it is information worth knowing).
 
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I've been looking into those tube steel buildings, you can get a 30x50x12 for around $14k installed. Could probably get the concrete pad poured turn key for less than $7k.
 
$12k for pouring 30 yards of concrete? Concrete is around $120 a yard right now so your looking at about $3600 in concrete, then maybe a grand in wire, rebar, stands and wood to build the form with. Unless you're talking about some serious grade work in that price I don't see it.
 
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1500 square feet of concrete for under 7K? You must have a friend. More like 12K.
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1500sf of 4” thick slab can be from $5500 to whatever depending on design and what you want in it. We pour daily.
 
Nash metal buildings out of Tarborro had a red iron building kit at the farm show that seemed reasonable priced. Kit was $15k for a 30*50. So say about 30yds of concrete, I've been getting quoted about $200/yd formed,poured and finished. Then about $1.50-$1.75 sq/from for erection. So add a little grading and I see

$15000 building
$ 6000 concrete
$ ~2500 erection
$ ???? Wiring

I say about $30k for a building that is a nice building and will be there for a long while.
 
I’m in about $45k. 40’x60’, 14’ walls, 3 12’x10’ roll up doors, 1 personnel door, 6” insulation on walls and ceiling, monolithic concrete slab, (thicker on the edges and down the center for lifts) including having a builder put it up. ARCO designed and built the metal structure, S&L construction put it up.
 

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@tobaccoroad4wd is it a red iron building? That's exactly what I want! 40x60x16, 3 shop doors, and somebody to build it!
 
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I have a lot of heavy machine shop equipment that would be sitting on it that's why I wanted 6".
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In that case, maybe. I have several warehouses with 4" pads and they get forklift and pallet jack traffic daily down the center aisles and have 8,000 lbs stacked on every available 40"x48" slot. The floor is held up fine under the weight. The aisles are showing some wear but the floor under the static load is great.
 
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