We use ground contact 4″ x 6″ timbers for the skids under our building. All the rest of our framing lumber is kiln dried Standard and Better Douglas Fir, the best framing lumber available anywhere. It’s much stronger than “white wood” lumber (spruce, white pine, etc.), and holds the nails much better. And it won’t…
Normally, we put concrete blocks under the treated skids. That gets the buildings up off the ground so they won’t rot and makes it easy for us to level them up.
We can’t answer that question for you. Each city has its own codes. Please call your city hall. Some cities require portable buildings to be anchored. If your city does, or if you desire it, please tell us when you order your building. We add “strong ties” to make an anchored building even stronger.
Yes, we can build on a slab. However, it hardly ever works to build on an old slab. A slab needs to square, level and sized correctly. If you want us to build on a slab, please contact us before you pour it.
I agree that God made wood beautiful.Some of our competitors use T1-11 or treated wood for their portable buildings. We can do that, too, but we don’t think that you’ll be as happy with it. Any clear coat finish applied to a wood product has to be renewed every year or two. If you neglect…
We use top quality satin finish paint and give your building two coats on top of the factory primer. We see buildings that we built 10 or even 15 years that look almost like new. Using good paint pays.
No, we don’t. We prefer wood, first because we think that a painted wood building looks more attractive than a metal building. Wood buildings are also tighter than metal buildings–mouse tight! And wood buildings are heavy and solid. In over 20 years in business, with 1000s of buildings all over Oklahoma, we’ve never heard of…
No. We tell you up front what your building will cost–and that’s it. Of course, we have to add sales tax, and the state requires us to figure the tax rate at the point of delivery. We can accept legal tax exemptions but we do ask for a copy of your exemption certificate for our…
Your life time–if you take care of it. We block it up, keeping all the lumber off the ground, but you need to make sure it doesn’t settle. Of course, eventually it will need a fresh coat of paint and new shingles.
First, be sure that your projected site is accessible. Typically, our delivery truck and trailer back into position, the trailer tilts and your portable building slides off the trailer right into the spot it needs to be. We can shift the building around some after it’s on the ground–if we need to. When you think…
