Steel Buildings for Your Prefab Storage Business: A Home-Based Startup Guide

As the self-storage market continues to boom, you may wonder if you can have a piece of that success. If you’re interested, look no further than our prefabricated metal sheds.

Here at Armstrong Steel, we offer cost-effective and quick-to-build mini-storage metal building kits to help you break into this profitable industry. We are proud to be among the top fabricators of high-quality steel buildings that are customizable to every need. We can design our structures to fulfill security considerations, aesthetic requirements, unit mixes, and expansion capabilities, making them perfect as self-storage units.

In this guide, we explain why prefabricated steel buildings make the best metal sheds. We will also share the benefits of building self-storage units with steel so you can understand their value to your business.

The growing importance of self-storage businesses

Did you know that over one-fifth of Americans rent self-storage units due to a lack of space in their homes? The US self-storage industry is a booming market currently valued at $44.33 billion, and it’s projected to reach $50.01 billion by 2029. This growth is fueled by several factors, including increased urbanization, rising housing costs, evolving lifestyles, growing commercial storage needs, and a greater business awareness of storage benefits and costs.

Gen X and Millennials represent a significant portion of this customer base. Factors such as downsizing and minimalist living have further fueled the need for secure and reliable storage solutions.

Even a small storage business from home can make a difference in meeting that demand. If you’re interested in this industry, prefabricated metal sheds from Armstrong Steel can help you get started.

Why a steel building is best for a self-storage business

As a self-storage business, you want to assure your customers that their belongings are safe and secure. Let’s explore how prefabricated steel buildings can protect their valuables and enhance your company’s reputation.

Durable structures that can withstand harsh weather

At Armstrong Steel, we engineer steel sheds to your region’s specific building codes and loads. This allows us to deliver a structure that can withstand the environmental conditions in your area. You won’t have to worry about your storage units succumbing to earthquakes or hurricanes. And because they are very durable, high winds and heavy snowfall will be the least of your worries.

Fire resistance

It takes just one spark to ignite a fire in a storage facility that is primarily made of traditional materials like wood. You don’t want to risk losing your business and your customers’ belongings to a devastating fire. This is why steel is the better choice. Being non-combustible, steel is unlikely to ignite or cause a fire to spread. It will be easy to control the spread of fires in prefabricated metal sheds because the steel structure remains intact even in extreme heat, and you don’t have to worry about your facility burning down completely. This is particularly important in wildfire-prone areas.

Assemble and erect your new storage shed quickly

Prefabricated steel sheds are ready to assemble and erect as soon they arrive at your site. It should take only a few days or weeks to complete your self-storage facility, assuming you have the rest of the construction materials (including the roofing and walls).

At Armstrong Steel, we provide custom building permits and detailed assembly drawings for your project. Plus, we take the guesswork out of assembling and erecting your shed by providing the anchor bolt patterns and a complete erection guide. All connections are already punched and ready to bolt. Moreover, we cut them to size and number them appropriately so you can follow the drawings effortlessly. All this can save you time and effort to assemble and erect prefabricated metal sheds.

Energy-efficient storage units

Steel buildings for storage have unique insulation requirements to maintain optimum temperatures and humidity inside. Our rigid-frame steel buildings support all insulation technologies to boost energy efficiency while reducing cooling and heating costs.

Create storage sheds that don’t look like a warehouse

If you’re building a storage shed on your residential property, you want it to look consistent with your home or garage’s exterior. At Armstrong Steel, we design prefabricated metal sheds to work with any exterior finish — including all roof and wall materials — so they don’t have to look too industrial.

Sheds of any size

We make steel buildings of any size, and this allows us to meet your exact length, width, or height requirements. No matter your situation, we can tailor the layout and framing to specific needs. Need more room? The clear-span layout minimizes or eliminates interior columns so customers can maximize the space inside. Plus, the modular framing simplifies future expansions, whether you decide to extend the shed crosswise or lengthwise.

How to order steel storage sheds from Armstrong Steel

Once you decide to build self-storage units with steel, don’t hesitate to connect with our building consultants here at Armstrong Steel for a quote. Our engineers can handle any custom design and deliver the most economical prefabricated metal sheds. You may also call us at 1-800-345-4610 to learn if you qualify for our direct buyer program.

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