Mr_Brightside
Newbie
Good morning everyone! So I'm beginning to get serious about my plans to convert a portion of a large pole barn I own into a hangar that would make any of us proud, but having never attempted any kind of project like this before, I thought it would be a good idea to come and ask a few questions and get a little advice.
So here's the deal, it is a free standing 100' x 50' steel pole building with 30' wings down each long side therefore actually making it a 100' x 110' building but for the purposes of this discussion we're only concerned with the center 100x50 portion. It is 14'10" to the bottom of the trusses(I think that's the term for the arched structures that the roof sits on?).
The upright poles seem to be 4 or 5 inch steel poles concreted into the ground spaced every ~20', while the trusses are constructed out of what appears to be 3" steel pipe.
So my want is to pour a concrete floor, 50' x 60'on the end of the interior, giving me a 50' opening in which to install a nice hangar door and have a good size hangar, with still plenty of room left to come back latter and maybe build a nice living area in the remaining 40'.
I will be talking with the company who sold the barn to see if I can get an inspector to come out and just verify the barn is in good order, to my untrained eye it looks fine...but best to just be assured.
I just got the quote from Schweiss this morning:
~$11k for a 49' x 14' bifold strap door and
~$14k for a hydraulic single piece door
And I think those are the prices for the doors and not installation. This price does seem a little high to me judging from what little information that can be found on the internet about the prices of these doors. Does this seem pretty in line with what everyone would expect to see?
Does anyone have any experience with the fabric type of doors? Are they cheaper or more expensive compared to steel doors and are they worth considering?
I haven't talked to any contractors yet but I was hoping to have a plan of how I want the walls done, does anyone have any thoughts on what would be the better value? Framing with wood or steel? I had a friend tell me that 14' wood walls are very difficult and therefore much more expensive to build. Does anyone have any experience attempting this kind of project before? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Another question is going to be about a helipad, obviously off of the hangar door I want to come out with a solid surface away from the building where I want to have a decent sized helipad, as a way to stay in good relations with the county I would like to build something worthy of landing LifeFlight helicopters at and offer it up to the county for emergency use.
I was actually thinking of asphalt for the area just because I heard it would do better on the swamping terrain that is the area I'm building, so what would be a good size to build the actual pad and what's materials do you prefer?
really just any ideas or tips for attempting the project would gen awesome! Thanks for reading everyone!
So here's the deal, it is a free standing 100' x 50' steel pole building with 30' wings down each long side therefore actually making it a 100' x 110' building but for the purposes of this discussion we're only concerned with the center 100x50 portion. It is 14'10" to the bottom of the trusses(I think that's the term for the arched structures that the roof sits on?).
The upright poles seem to be 4 or 5 inch steel poles concreted into the ground spaced every ~20', while the trusses are constructed out of what appears to be 3" steel pipe.
So my want is to pour a concrete floor, 50' x 60'on the end of the interior, giving me a 50' opening in which to install a nice hangar door and have a good size hangar, with still plenty of room left to come back latter and maybe build a nice living area in the remaining 40'.
I will be talking with the company who sold the barn to see if I can get an inspector to come out and just verify the barn is in good order, to my untrained eye it looks fine...but best to just be assured.
I just got the quote from Schweiss this morning:
~$11k for a 49' x 14' bifold strap door and
~$14k for a hydraulic single piece door
And I think those are the prices for the doors and not installation. This price does seem a little high to me judging from what little information that can be found on the internet about the prices of these doors. Does this seem pretty in line with what everyone would expect to see?
Does anyone have any experience with the fabric type of doors? Are they cheaper or more expensive compared to steel doors and are they worth considering?
I haven't talked to any contractors yet but I was hoping to have a plan of how I want the walls done, does anyone have any thoughts on what would be the better value? Framing with wood or steel? I had a friend tell me that 14' wood walls are very difficult and therefore much more expensive to build. Does anyone have any experience attempting this kind of project before? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Another question is going to be about a helipad, obviously off of the hangar door I want to come out with a solid surface away from the building where I want to have a decent sized helipad, as a way to stay in good relations with the county I would like to build something worthy of landing LifeFlight helicopters at and offer it up to the county for emergency use.
I was actually thinking of asphalt for the area just because I heard it would do better on the swamping terrain that is the area I'm building, so what would be a good size to build the actual pad and what's materials do you prefer?
really just any ideas or tips for attempting the project would gen awesome! Thanks for reading everyone!
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