Advantages of Metal Homes Over Stick Built
- Design Versatility: Metal buildings can be custom-designed without the cost of a professional architect. Homeowners can also more easily modify and expand their design in the future.
- Durability: Perhaps the most obvious benefit of using steel is its strength and reliability as a material. Steel structures are consistent and provide a significantly greater strength-to-weight ratio than wood.
- Maintenance: Owning a home can be a time-consuming and expensive job. Steel is a time- and cost-effective solution, minimizing structural issues and pest damage that can wreak havoc on a wood structure.
- Lower Insurance Costs: Insurance is often cheaper for steel homes because they are fire-resistant and more capable of handling extreme weather. This makes steel homes a popular choice in locales that commonly experience tornadoes, hurricanes and flooding.
- Warranty: General Steel offers a 50-year structural warranty, 40-year paint warranty and a 25-year galvalume roof warranty on steel homes. These warranties are not common when building a new home from traditional materials.