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Steel weight

Hilly

Member
I went to price some 10”x6” girders to extend a shed today and they want to know weight I want , I don’t know 😂. What weight is normaly used in agg buildings it’s just a roof on legs 17’ eves shed think they gave me option of 21 31 47 iirc guy was particularly unhelpful as so many seem to be these days, so thought I’d ask here .
 

bobk

Member
Location
stafford
I went to price some 10”x6” girders to extend a shed today and they want to know weight I want , I don’t know 😂. What weight is normaly used in agg buildings it’s just a roof on legs 17’ eves shed think they gave me option of 21 31 47 iirc guy was particularly unhelpful as so many seem to be these days, so thought I’d ask here .
You need a structural engineer m8
 

Blue.

Member
Livestock Farmer
Measure your existing girders,the web size and dimensions will give you the existing kilos/metre.
 

fermerboy

Member
Location
Banffshire
As said, the weight per metre can be worked out on your existing shed by measuring the thickness of the webs on the columns and rafters. But I bet forever Fendts spec won't be far off.
That said, our last two 12m wide, 5.4m high are on 305mm wide columns with 254 rafters.
 

Forever Fendt

Member
Location
Derbyshire
Yes both columns and rafters up a size and the rafter end plates as well so about an extra 180 kg per frame based on 50 ft like for like in money terms not a lot extra at about £100 per frame and about £50 extra if it’s galvanised , My 45 ft span sheds at home have been done on 305 columns and 254 rafters not necessary but looks better The shed we are converting at the moment to residential is 10m wide x 3m to eaves luckily I did it on 254x146x37 columns as we had some surplus at the time , 13 years latter it’s worked in my favour now with building regs ,I never skimp on steel sizes or concrete thickness but convincing farmers can be another mater sometimes
 

fermerboy

Member
Location
Banffshire
Living 700ft off sea level on a hill in NE Scotland you definitely don't want to be skimping on steel sizes!!
The big snowfall we had near 10yrs ago showed up the guys who had skimped either in steel or manufacturing.
A step up in steel size isn't that much extra and gives piece of mind if there's 36" of frozen snow on it.:oops::oops:
 

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