The most important considerations when planning your overall project, a part of the puzzle, that if done right will pay dividends down the road, or lead to conditions in the building that will wish you had planned better.

Insulation… it keeps us warm, it keeps us cool, but how much do we ever really think about this stuff when pricing out our buildings, especially in the beginning stages of discovery.

One of the mistakes 1st-time builders and customers make is to not account for the correct type of insulation for their needs. What part of the country/world are you building? What type of climate control do you need for the activities inside your structure? How comfortable do you need to be? What are the local building codes requiring?

All good questions. At a minimum, it is wise to know that a steel structure insulation needs to be correctly sized for the roof system being implemented. For example: If you are going with a screw-down roof, an R-19 or 6’’ batt insulation system can suffice, depending on your needs and local building codes. A simple R-19 system is good at deflecting heat of the summer, and will help keep some heat in during the winter, but is it enough to give you the atmospheric control you really desire inside your structure? Yes, price is a factor, but without an economic lesson, we all know that perhaps spending a little more money now ends up saving dividends down the road.