weld your own building?

[BobGreen]

Just order steel ready cut to angles from supplier
They can also paint it

 

[Hesston4860s]

For the DIY shed builders, lets say you have done the tricky bit and worked out the angles you want to cut the RSJs at etc, how do you do the cutting so that you get it right ?

Its v easy to say we need to cut this 9" RSJ at 12% but how do you measure the angles accurately ?

When I did my 100x50, I got a piece of angle and welded apiece of 1" flat to 1 end of it at the correct 15 degree that I wanted and always worked off what would be the top of the beam.
Turned out like this

Oh and I put the roof on aswell and by myself.

 

[Forever Fendt]

getting calcs done for a 13.716x10m x 3.3 to eaves this week will be interesting to see how they come out its in exposed site @ 100meters so not that high and is fully enclosed all ready built but need a retrospect ticket its 254x146x31 posts 178x102 rafters with split beam haunches 152x152x23 gables and 4no 76 dia roof braces +angle knee braces what do you think

all the steel passed fine uprights could have been 203 as said and no need for eaves ties so good news

 

[Forever Fendt]

When I did my 100x50, I got a piece of angle and welded apiece of 1" flat to 1 end of it at the correct 15 degree that I wanted and always worked off what would be the top of the beam.
Turned out like this
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Oh and I put the roof on aswell and by myself.

looks a grand job did you have calcs done i see you have put compression stiffness and morris stiffness in the top of the posts but no cap plate

 

[Hesston4860s]

looks a grand job did you have calcs done i see you have put compression stiffness and morris stiffness in the top of the posts but no cap plate

No I designed it myself must admit tho some of it is almost identical to an 80x60 grain store down the road . A lot of buildings round here have no stiffeners in them at all.

 

[Forever Fendt]

No I designed it myself must admit tho some of it is almost identical to an 80x60 grain store down the road . A lot of buildings round here have no stiffeners in them at all.

better with them and a decent roof angle 12.5 or 15 deg

 

[S J H]

For the DIY shed builders, lets say you have done the tricky bit and worked out the angles you want to cut the RSJs at etc, how do you do the cutting so that you get it right ?

Its v easy to say we need to cut this 9" RSJ at 12% but how do you measure the angles accurately ?

Parker steel cut the lengths with angle on for you

 

[S J H]

looks a grand job did you have calcs done i see you have put compression stiffness and morris stiffness in the top of the posts but no cap plate

What are the diagonal plates for above the horizontal web plates for @Forever Fendt

 

[Hesston4860s]

Parker steel cut the lengths with angle on for you

So does a local steel yard but I once went into a local ag engineers who where building a lean to for someone. They had ordered the steel cut to length and angle and had it blasted and painted !, shame all the angles where all different on all 6 lengths !. I always cut my own with the 9" n a slit disc.

 

[Forever Fendt]

What are the diagonal plates for above the horizontal web plates for @Forever Fendt

they transmit the forces applied from the bolt grouping where the rafter bolts to the stansion and distribute these loads across the web of the stansion and distribute to the opposite flange they are morris stiffness mostly seen in ind buildings, adding them can reduce the weight of stansion used and they should be fully welded

 

[Blue.]

The cheapest steel you buy is direct,trouble is they don't offer a cutting service direct, a lot depends on the length you want,the last I bought were 18.3m long and I needed 18m it didn't take 15m to cut the angles.

 

[Forever Fendt]

The cheapest steel you buy is direct,trouble is they don't offer a cutting service direct, a lot depends on the length you want,the last I bought were 18.3m long and I needed 18m it didn't take 15m to cut the angles.

direct i take it that is gemma @rainhams

 

[Hesston4860s]

One I cut when building mine.

 

[Forever Fendt]

One I cut when building mine.

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what about all your end plates did you buy them or do them your self

 

[Hesston4860s]

what about all your end plates did you buy them or do them your self

Made them and all the purlin cleats myself.

 

[Nearly]

bloke up the road is in a wheelchair after he fell through a fibre cement roof. i have lost count of the people who have died or been paralysed by the fecking stuff.

Might as well ban perspex, and gravity while you're on with it?

 

[Andbarbred]

A couple of examples of our pre-cut fabrication plates.
end plate, 10mm, six 22mm holes, 300 x 102. £3.30+vat+p&p
smiley face purlin bracket, slides onto beam, providing some gussetting effect with the added bonus that it self centres, available for timber or Z purlins, any size of beam. from £2.55 + VAT + P&P

 

[Andbarbred]

all the steel passed fine uprights could have been 203 as said and no need for eaves ties so good news

Pleased to see you are installing the fall arrest equipment before putting the roof on!!

 

[avag]

Ok, toe a little deeper into the water.
Steel work to make 5 x 30ft portal frames ( 60x 30 ft building) consisting of:
10 x 178x102x19kg beams for roof section ( cut to length and pitch)
10 x 178 x102x19kg beams for stanchions, pre drilled.(3.5metre to eaves)
40 x our unique wrap round self centring 6mm purlin brackets for roof sections
20 x 10mm pre drilled end plates for roof trusses
20 x 6mm triangle gussets for roof trusses
10 x eaves beam brackets
10 x 10mm pre drilled self centring foot plates for stanchions.

All the above, around £1650.00+vat+delivery.

What do you think?

Have you got a price for a60x40x14 thanks

 

[Andbarbred]

Have you got a price for a60x40x14 thanks

Hi, 20ft or 15ft bays?