So we’ve got this crazy idea of building our own garage. We were looking at kits, but they’re kind of steep… and building a proper wooden garage/barn the size we want it would be crazy expensive.
The pre-fabbed metal buildings are a little better, but we really think we can do it a lot cheaper just buying the materials ourselves. We have most of the gear necessary to make a metal frame barn, just by sinking the poles into the ground, welding frames to it and then tech-screwing corrugated sheetmetal roofing on top. Toss in a few hundred bucks in doors and windows and we should be golden.
We’ll have to see if the budget ever gets approved for it though, but it’d be nice to be able to change the oil on the cars in winter without freezing our nuts off in the process.