Steel Framed Buildings......anyone use one for stabling?

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Hi all, about to start building my yard and wondered whether a steel frame building would work well to house stables, shavings, haylage plus basic machinery etc. Like the idea of having everything under one roof as I work full time so do the horses early morning and late night. I guess an american barn concept.

Anyone use one? What are the pluses and minuses of them?

Thoughts welcome on other stuff as well - outdoor school, walker, grazing.......getting it cheap, where to buy, anyone selling anything????!!!!

Thanks in advance. Gunna post this in SY as well.
 
when i bought my land it had planning permission for an agricultural barn, so I put one up 30m x 100m, have indoor stabling, park lorry in it, use it for hay/feed storage etc. etc.
PM me if you want more details it's fab, it wasn't cheap though. Had to apply for planning for change of use to equestrian. Horses love it's light and airy.
 
The biggest problem I have seen is trying to incorporate the steel uprights into block walls. It does not work and the walls crack and fall over.Hollow blocks ,reinforcing bars up from the floor and fill them with concrete.
 
I have concrete panels between the steel uprights which have been there 4 years and have stood up to horses getting cast and one that kicks the wall at feed time. They were a lot cheaper than block walls. I have no doors on my barn three big exits open all the time but obviously there is a fire risk, I only have small quantities of hay in there at one time but the barn won't burn like a wooden block of stables would.
 
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The biggest problem I have seen is trying to incorporate the steel uprights into block walls. It does not work and the walls crack and fall over.Hollow blocks ,reinforcing bars up from the floor and fill them with concrete.

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I don't understand this post, sorry. My barn is steel frame with uprights at 15ft intervals with concrete block walls between. It was built in 1980 and is as solid now as it was then. It's the commonest barn construction in the Peak Park, they are almost all built like it.
 
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The biggest problem I have seen is trying to incorporate the steel uprights into block walls. It does not work and the walls crack and fall over.Hollow blocks ,reinforcing bars up from the floor and fill them with concrete.

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I don't understand this post, sorry. My barn is steel frame with uprights at 15ft intervals with concrete block walls between. It was built in 1980 and is as solid now as it was then. It's the commonest barn construction in the Peak Park, they are almost all built like it.

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But seriously,I have seen too many internal walls fail and external ones where doorways have been put between posts.The problem is the corners particularly when building to an existing wall as well.
 
Have a look in the farmers weekly for shed suppliers, the prices often look good but don't forget you will have to prepare the site, erect it and add blockwork/cladding etc which will more than double the price.. We have a massive steel framed shed 140' x 70 which we used to use for our agricultural contracting business, its now full of free range hens but then i suppose they make more money than an indoor school. I think its a great idea, i expect if you asked the shed suppliers they would give you names of people who have put sheds up for the same sort of thing, give them a ring and see how they get on.
 
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