Modern Options for Your Steel Building: from Doors and Skylights to Canopies and Roofing Components
Many building buyers are acquainted with the standard options available on the market for pre-engineered steel structures. For some time now, windows, insulation, and doors have been ordinary options. Today, however, steel structure manufacturers and contract manufacturers offer screw-down and standing-seam roof treatments, fascia and hip roof configurations, and various other building parts that have been re-modeled for today’s buildings.
Sliding doors, an excellent form of entry- and exit-way for any steel building, are available in both double and single slide versions and commonly range in size from 30 feet to 10 feet in width. Roll-up and sectional building doors are obtainable in a vast array of dimensions, qualities, and paint schemes and many leading steel structure companies offer catalogs or website services for buyers to select from a multitude of doorways for their building. Additionally, premium quality steel hangar doorways come in several styles – stacking, sliding, and bi-fold – and they can be customized to suit your aircraft’s dimensions. Yet another doorway option is a canister door, which rolls up above the door jamb. These are available in many paint schemes. Similarly, walk doors and half-glass doors can be obtained in varying color schemes and dimensions, and bear in mind also that half-glass doors are generally produced using tempered safety glass.
Many steel building firms will supply liner panels to finish the structural interior of your pre-engineered steel structure with a quality appearance. For both interior wall and roof applications, liner panels are normally available in 26 or 29 gauge high quality steel.
An excellent fit for any structure is sliding glass windows. These are usually self-framing and flashing and come in several sizes, in either a single or double pane. Many companies also offer them with thermal glass as a fuel conserving advantage and these are obtainable in virtually any length and width to suit your needs.
Eave canopies are popular additions for the exterior of any steel building. These extend along the length of the complete building, above the building sidewalls, and you can choose from between 1-8 feet of overhang. You also have the option to use soffit. With the use of rooftop extensions, extra roofing enhancement for spots at the gable structure endwalls can be effected. Roof extensions are also practicable with or without soffit and are available in up to 8 feet in length.
You may wish to introduce more natural light into your steel building by incorporating skylights or wall lights. Many building firms now offer insulated skylights to further enhance the interior environment of your building.
For further information about any of the options discussed here, or for a more comprehensive list of options offered, you should contact your steel building manufacturer or supplier and they will provide you with more details or brochures about the specific options they offer.