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Illinois Couple See the Beauty in Steel Carport

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Talking with David and Becky Drinkwater of Beach Park, IL, their pride is palpable as they discuss an addition they made to their homestead two years ago.

"It's just so beautiful," they both say, almost in unison. "We've gotten so many compliments from everyone who sees it."

Some may be surprised to learn that the impetus for the excited lilt in their voices is a steel carport that stands in their driveway and protects their car. "Becky and I were talking about purchasing a carport to park our new car under, and we agreed that we didn't want to have to look at or deal with a poorly constructed, ugly, box-shaped thing sitting in our driveway," says David. "We live on more than two acres of land that looks like a beautiful park, and we didn't want to build a garage or any structure that would take away from that park-like environment—we wanted it to remain open."

After visiting various home improvement chain stores, the Drinkwaters were losing hope that they would ever find something that was affordable and met their aesthetic standards. "One day we were on the Internet, and we happened upon SteelMaster Buildings," says David. "After researching their product and talking to a few folks who work there, we knew we found what we were looking for."

Located in Virginia Beach, VA, SteelMaster Buildings has 28 years of experience designing and producing steel and metal pre-engineered arch buildings for a broad range of residential and commercial applications, including carports.

"The SteelMaster Ultimate Carport is the strongest steel carport in the marketplace and is built to withstand a variety of climate conditions while at the same time has a unique, pleasing look about it and offers 100 percent usable space, thanks to the arch design," says Michelle Wickum, SteelMaster's director of marketing.

For the Drinkwaters, the arch of the carport is a thing of beauty. "Aesthetically, the arch of the roof looks really cool to us," says David. "Plus I love the quality of it. It is a powerful, really strongly built structure. I'm convinced that if we were hit with a hurricane, the house would blow away, but the carport would stay right where it is." Betsy says she couldn't agree more. "When you drive up to it, it's so beautiful, and everyone remarks about that."

In fact, the Drinkwaters believed so strongly in the beauty of their carport that they submitted photos of it into SteelMaster's 2010 spring photo contest. "They were one of the five runner ups for that contest," says Wickum.

The arch design of the carport is what I find most exciting and visually attractive. It is also extremely strong and very well built. One could not want for a more aesthetically pleasing and substantial carport anywhere in the world. One could safely say that I was greatly impressed by the product and the customer support that was provided during its construction.

It was very helpful to have your staff explain construction techniques that would help me make my carport square and level and fit together properly. Rich often was the person I called the most. He told me how to build a wooden template to set down on the sonotubes so that I could suspend my J-bolts into the wet concrete.

I procured a laser level to make all my sonotubes level. I did that at dusk to see the red line on the sonotubes and then traced them with a marker and cut them off with a jigsaw. I mixed all my concrete by hand with a hoe and wheelbarrow. It took about 70 bags of concrete to fill the four sonotubes. It tested my manhood. I have a cordless impact driver that was indispensable in torquing all the nuts down to specs.

I only had one assistant, the woman of my dreams and my sweetheart, Becky, who was indispensable.

With more than 40,000 satisfied customers, including buildings located in every state in the United States, on six continents, and in more than 40 overseas countries, SteelMaster takes pride in knowing its steel buildings have earned the favor of people like the Drinkwaters.

SteelMaster's steel and metal pre-engineered buildings are designed for a broad range of residential and commercial applications including Garages, Workshops, Carports, Quonsets, Airplane Hangars, RV Storage, Military Buildings, Commercial Warehousing, and Industrial Storage as well as a wide variety of Custom Building applications including Athletic Facilities, Retail Stores, Churches, Bus Stops, Smoke Shacks, Doggie Dorms, and Correctional Facilities.

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here the author reveals SteelMaster's steel building's broad range of residential and commercial applications with various examples. Along with the wide varieties and benefits of each type of Arch building author encloses the facts of Custom building applications.

Is a steel arch building safe to use as a horse barn?

We just purchased our first country home and we want to get horses. There are 83 acres, so I know we have plenty of room. What I am trying to determine is if we can use the existing steel arch building as a horse barn (with some modifications) or if we would need to construct something new.

Yes it is fine - Many of todays barns are built of steel because of the fire hazard issue. You can purchase insulation that is incased in plastic and held on by clips and wire for the ceiling. That is a must esp if you have the arch type with a lower ceiling and not the straight sided arch. In the summer you want to keep the air moving OUT at the top of the arch, in the winter you want to move it down. (of course you know this.) Summer cooling is more important than winter warming. Blankets and hay will keep horses warm. So you must vent the ends and blow air out at the top and keep the doors open but keep it as dark as possible. Flys are attracted to the outline of a horse's shape and light. If it is dark they can't see the horse, so we put up black rubber that is sliced into 8" strips and hangs to the ground. Tie the rubber back for a few days so they get use to it and let a few strips down a day. If your barn area is going to be long you can put a gate up to keep the guys out of your tack area. Our horses have free access to the barn and when the bugs are bad and its hot they go in and crowd to the darkest corner of the isle and sleep. The rest of the time the eat grass and play. I never realized how much horses hate stalls until we gave them a choice. In the winter they will have icicles hanging off of them and won't go into the barn unless it is very windy, cold and raining. We don't pick stalls anymore - once in a great while we may have to pick up manure from the isle, most of the time they come out of the barn and do the deed and we collect it once a week with the bucket on the tractor. What a deal. Also if you are going to have shoes on them rubber mats are a must if they have free access to the isle. (Barefeet are ok on concrete - not as likely to slip and fall.)Stalls are still a good idea at dinner time - unless you have the time to stand there and babysit. Horses can hurt themselves on everything - so make sure the arch back walls are at least 10' high where their stall walls are. If you have the sloped walls you should really build back stall walls away from the arch. A horse when spooked could have a hard time interpreting how low the arch is and hit his head. Also dividing walls between the stalls should be open at about 5' again for ventilation and also if horses are stalled they like to see their buddies. You can use thick wire mesh made for stalls or wooden slats (but horses get bored and chew) between the upper areas. 10X10 is a good size 12X12 is ideal. Gee what a treat you are in for. If you are set up for it I would recommend letting the horses choose when to go to shelter. Access to a treed area in the summertime as well as a dark run in shed is mentally and physically healthy for horses than a stall. Now if you are buying that big dollar show horse than the stall is a must - horses get scrapes, bumps and bruses every day playing in the pasture and trees. Take them off the trees in the winter time. Without pasture to keep them busy - horses are meant to eat about 20 hours a day - the will eat the bark off the trees. A very good permanent or temporary pasture is electric rope - buy white - it shows up. Set up wooden posts for corners and 12' gates (a must if you want to drive a truck and hay trailer through.) Don't use regular electric wire unless it is in place. Again horses don't see it as well - and we've had a few get caught in it. ROTATE YOUR PASTURE. Can you tell we've made our share of mistakes? we bought our first horse when we were 42 - now we are trainging others. I'm working my second colt. He is going to be a keeper. If you have any specific ? I think you can respond to me. Good Luck and have fun. Jessie

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