Steel Buliding Decaying!!

[chado613]

Has anyone had any experience with this?

Is it repairable? or does the whole piece need to be replaced?

 

[gwstang]

Have you had any salt blocks or mineral blocks in there? Mine did that when I had horses many years ago and had a mineral block for them to lick on. Happened quick too.

 

[chado613]

I believe the previous owner use to salt the around the entrance to that building

 

[Rustyiron]

All building material, wood or metal, should be 6" above the grade. A few solutions would be to install a PT "skirt board" around the perimeter (a 2X10 or 12). This would allow you to cut the siding up (above grade) about 6-8" and install a horizontal trim (J channel or rat guard) and this new 2X would be your new fastening point for the siding & trim as well as a closure between the building & the ground.
Another solution would be to do the same thing at the bottom, but cut the siding up at the next wall girt and using a different accent color to replace the lower damaged piececreating a "wainscott" look and dressing things up a little. This also makes for easy future repairs at this area that is veunerable to damage.

 

[dragoneggs]

All building material, wood or metal, should be 6" above the grade. A few solutions would be to install a PT "skirt board" around the perimeter (a 2X10 or 12). This would allow you to cut the siding up (above grade) about 6-8" and install a horizontal trim (J channel or rat guard) and this new 2X would be your new fastening point for the siding & trim as well as a closure between the building & the ground.
Another solution would be to do the same thing at the bottom, but cut the siding up at the next wall girt and using a different accent color to replace the lower damaged piececreating a "wainscott" look and dressing things up a little. This also makes for easy future repairs at this area that is veunerable to damage.

Good ideas Rusty... yeah looks like salt corrosion.

 

[brown40]

Was something behind the panel piled up against it? It looks like stuff is falling out of the building...

 

[EddieWalker]

You can easily cut it off with a cutting disk on a 4 1/2 inch grinder and then slide a longer piece under it that is about a foot longer. Shouldn't take very long or cost very much

 

[chado613]

It's actually the insulation coming out of the bottom. Thanks for the advice fellas I am going to give it a try

 

[rswyan]

Make sure to paint the cut edge where the bare steel is exposed ...

 

[dragoneggs]

Make sure to paint the cut edge where the bare steel is exposed ...

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[Sprinklerman]

Thats those new termites , they love steel

 

[drizler]

You can easily cut it off with a cutting disk on a 4 1/2 inch grinder and then slide a longer piece under it that is about a foot longer. Shouldn't take very long or cost very much

Exactly , why make it complicated . It;s easier to cut that bad part off if you can remove the panel but don't bother if it looks like it will be a hassle. You can just remove the screws above the damage enough to pry up and get the panel up clear of the neighbors. Then cut across with a cut off blade on your small grinder. If you don't have one you could just go grab a 7 1/4" steel blade for your skill saw providing it doesn't have a plastic guard over the blade. Same goes for cutting the replacement if you have to. Tin snips just plain suck on corrugated steel although you can do it that way if you have to. Lap it, screw it down and you are done. Just make sure to have some safety glasses and gloves on while doing that cutting as those wheels throw a lot of debris.

 

[Dale_Alan]

I have the same problem with my 60' x 40'. The erectors (1991) allowed the insulation (held up by chicken wire) to go below the angle iron mounted to the floor and in places to the bottom of the sheet. When it rained, the insulation weeped the water upwards a few inches and rotted the sheet especially where the bolts go through the sheet into the angle iron on the floor. I have yet to decide exactly how I want to repair this.
Dale

 

[drizler]

There aren't many thing on earth that suck up, wick and hold moisture and water than that damned pink insulation. Those batts are ok inside a nice dry structure but do everything you can to keep it away from ground contact. From the look of your picture something salty did all that damage. If not I wouldn't doubt that the insulation had Isomething to do with it. Fromthe recent contractors bulletin boards they don't even recommend that stuff in basements of your house anymore, mainly due to mold.
I pretty much swore off the pink panter crap when I happened across a HVAC site that pros were discussing the various aspects of roll insulation. I don't remember the numbers but for actual R value goes absolutely to crap in the presence of a 10 mph wind. The pink panther never mentioned that in his ads:thumbdown: