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Quonset Hut Garages
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Follow had a truck shop in one with straight walls about 6foot high. It had some type of foam sprayed on inside. Bet it was 30 years old then. It is still in use as dry storage of bulk rock,mulch, sands. it has been over thirty years since I was last in it.
WoodburyZuk
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Spray foam. And yeah, you said it. Ugly.
billybob_81067
Redneck
+1 on spray foam. That would be about the only reasonable way to insulate one.
I just acquired a 25'wide by 36' long quonset building for free fiddy. It was my father in laws and he had bought it from someone else that never erected it. It has one endwall in the kit, but the panels were getting some rusty spots on them, I think they'll still be fine though especially if the inside is sprayed with insulation and a guy could coat the outside with some of that white roof coating... I was told it was a 25'x 40, but there were 76 of the big arches and 18 small pieces so I figure one of the small pieces got lost over the years, and a few of the arched pieces that were on the bottom of the stack had some damage. I will just use the 18 small arch pieces and 72 of the large arch pieces to make it 36' long and that way I will not have to use a couple of the damaged arch sections.
My boy and I just spent basically the entire day taking that stack of parts apart, scrubbing them down with a stiff bristle brush to get all the dirt off, and then re-stacking them inside a shipping container to keep them out of the weather so they will be good to go whenever I decide to put it up. The endwall pieces are a lighter gauge than the arches and like I said had some rust damage. We scrubbed them clean and then coated any rusty spots with some WD-40 before re-stacking them inside the shipping container.
Oh and it didn't come with any bolts, so I'll have to source those.
I just acquired a 25'wide by 36' long quonset building for free fiddy. It was my father in laws and he had bought it from someone else that never erected it. It has one endwall in the kit, but the panels were getting some rusty spots on them, I think they'll still be fine though especially if the inside is sprayed with insulation and a guy could coat the outside with some of that white roof coating... I was told it was a 25'x 40, but there were 76 of the big arches and 18 small pieces so I figure one of the small pieces got lost over the years, and a few of the arched pieces that were on the bottom of the stack had some damage. I will just use the 18 small arch pieces and 72 of the large arch pieces to make it 36' long and that way I will not have to use a couple of the damaged arch sections.
My boy and I just spent basically the entire day taking that stack of parts apart, scrubbing them down with a stiff bristle brush to get all the dirt off, and then re-stacking them inside a shipping container to keep them out of the weather so they will be good to go whenever I decide to put it up. The endwall pieces are a lighter gauge than the arches and like I said had some rust damage. We scrubbed them clean and then coated any rusty spots with some WD-40 before re-stacking them inside the shipping container.
Oh and it didn't come with any bolts, so I'll have to source those.
ridered3
Low Talent Wheelin
Don't have much personal experience with the Quonset Hut buildings since I've only been in a couple of them, but this guy built one for a hot rod shop, so may be worth contacting to get more info/his opinion.
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Halffastford
Web Wheeler
Spray insulation, greenfield wiring, get a roll up door-it's a space saver. Friend had one. I couldn't really find any negatives other than the pad was shit to begin with. Not his or the buildings fault. Oh, and use the insulators on the side walls or water will run under them when it rains.
billybob_81067
Redneck
What are these insulators you speak of? Whenever I get around to putting the one I got up I am planning on pouring a stem wall for it to get the overall height up some more. That should help some with water intrusion as well unless there is a driving rain or something...
Anyone got any links to websites or videos on easy ways to pour the foundation for them? I need to look over the instructions again, but it seemed like it needed a trough in the right spot in order to capture the bottom of the arches so they wouldn't try and spread outward.
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ugh, that guy again?
I've always heard you do that, then grout it in with concrete
Halffastford
Web Wheeler
they're just foam pad insulators. they run the length of the bottom sill to keep water out.
I like the 2 or 4 20 or 40 ft containers with roof trusses better, quonset huts might be cheaper, containers arent cheap but offer somewhat secure out of the weather storage and a place to park vehicles and other items out of the weather etc.
