The fiance and I are still doing our homework on what type of abode we want. Does anyone have experience living in a steel house? For example, what was good and not so good about it? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

-- debra in ks (solid-dkn@msn.com), March 05, 2001

Answers

Check this out:

http://www.steelmasterusa.com

This is the way Steve and I want to do it if the place we find dosen't have a home allready. Check out the houses made with them. 30 year guarantee. We want to live in 1/2 and the animals in the other half. A 80 foot one is only 8K. Neat site to check out.

-- Cindy in Ky (solidrockranch@hotmail.com), March 05, 2001.

Hi debra, Are you talking about a large steel building or building with steel "2x4's"?

-- Lynn Goltz (lynngoltz@aol.com), March 05, 2001.

There are to types of steel homes. One is built like a wood house with steel of the same dimensions as the wood it is replacing. The other is built like a steel shed, with large (red iron) beams forming the frame and filled in with smaller steel boards? to make the walls. This type the exterior wall carry all the load and the interior walls can be placed anywhere you wish. Look at www.metalhomes.com

-- cottonpickerboy (cottonpickerboy@hotmail.com), March 09, 2001.

We know a bit about steel houses since we live in a steel manufacturing mill area of the country and this interest in building steel houses has been featured at length in our communities. But as one representative from the USDA sighed as he was walking us through the old run-down farm we had purchased that year and giving good advice, he sighed and said "As sad a sight as it is to drive down a road and see a chimney standing in a field alone with no house, I hope my descendants do not have to drive down these same roads and see steel skeletons standing in the same fields. One still has some charm. The other will not." We made no comment for we planned a lot with metal on the farm. But it was food for thought.

-- Heather Danielson (sixmeadows@uov.net), March 12, 2001.