What size grain store can I build for £100k ?

Stuart J

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Mixed Farmer
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UK
1,000T GRAIN STORE OFFER
80 x 60 x 20ft 1,000T Grain Store Offer = £37,000*

  • Concrete panels to 3m
  • All steelwork, including web stiffeners & rafter stays
  • Roof, end & side cladding
  • Purlins & rainwater goods
This is on Graham Heaths Website. Obviously ground work, erection costs and concrete on top. (Not an endorsement of any kind, just put it up to show a cost of a building).
As a very rough guestimate, I would say a building can be split in to 3rds. 1/3 building, 1/3rd groundwork erection, 1/3 Concrete.


Same shed today 57k
 

Poncherello1976

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Oxfordshire
I was going to put up a store in the new year, have permission, but have now put it on hold as the cost have got way to much. Also there is too much uncertainty around and I may well go in to a CS scheme next year which may take out some cropping and so will have less to store. This harvest coming I will get everything moved at harvest somewhere else, some will be sold and some will be sold through the season, but someone else can look after it! Will cost a little, but not as much as a new building and will give me the time to sort out what we are going to do.
I might instead spend the money on a storage building as people keep badgering me for space!
 
I was going to put up a store in the new year, have permission, but have now put it on hold as the cost have got way to much. Also there is too much uncertainty around and I may well go in to a CS scheme next year which may take out some cropping and so will have less to store. This harvest coming I will get everything moved at harvest somewhere else, some will be sold and some will be sold through the season, but someone else can look after it! Will cost a little, but not as much as a new building and will give me the time to sort out what we are going to do.
I might instead spend the money on a storage building as people keep badgering me for space!

In your neck of the woods the letting of storage space would surely be strong enough to justify putting up two sheds?! Everytime I drive into Oxfordshire I swear I can smell money.
 

Forever Fendt

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Location
Derbyshire
I was going to put up a store in the new year, have permission, but have now put it on hold as the cost have got way to much. Also there is too much uncertainty around and I may well go in to a CS scheme next year which may take out some cropping and so will have less to store. This harvest coming I will get everything moved at harvest somewhere else, some will be sold and some will be sold through the season, but someone else can look after it! Will cost a little, but not as much as a new building and will give me the time to sort out what we are going to do.
I might instead spend the money on a storage building as people keep badgering me for space!
A storage building would pay for its self in 6/7 years in the right spot
 
In your neck of the woods the letting of storage space would surely be strong enough to justify putting up two sheds?! Everytime I drive into Oxfordshire I swear I can smell money.

Ha, demand is insane but we have to pay more in labour and trying to find any tradesman is very hard work.

We also have a planning team who constantly give totally different opinions 6 months apart on the same type of building project - makes it very hard to predict outcomes.

A storage building would pay for its self in 6/7 years in the right spot

2 yrs ago it was about 4-5 then the cost of the buildings doubled 😡
 
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