Note: This is strictly a low budget build. I'd much rather have a bigger, nicer building, with hydraulic lifts, insulation, A/C, etc. So most will not be interested in this series at all. But, for the low budget guys that can handle a $10k budget build, some of this info may be helpful.
Well, the Eagle Carport guys took off for Easter Vacation. So, they couldn't schedule us til this past Monday, April 16. The crew foreman called Sat, saying they'd be here about 9AM, which they were.
They brought all the pieces to build my shop, plus one for somebody else, on a tag trailer, pulled by an old Dodge diesel pick-up. It was a 3-man crew. They were all of Mexican or Latin American decent. I don't know if any of 'em were illegals or not, and don't care. So, please don't anybody badmouth me for mentioning this, or possibly using the wrong terminology or mentioning their ethnic background.
I will say this: These 3 guys knew what they were doing. You could tell that is was not their 1st rodeo. I didn't see them take a break, or smoke , or spit any tabacco juice, like most white construction crews I've seen.
As soon as they stopped the truck, they started unloading all the parts & pieces. It sorta reminded me of the Erector set I had in grammar school. Some parts were slip fit, others were fastened together with screws. Some were cut to the exact required length/shape. Some were not, & had to be fabbed.
Most of the time, each man was doing a different job. Some stuff required at least 2 guys working together. When they spoke, it was in Spanish, I assume. Don't know if they were talkin about the job, me, women, or what. Talkin did not slow down their work at all. The crew foreman drove the truck, handled the paper work & spoke good English. If the other 2 spoke much English I didn't hear it.
Let me say here that the cheap labor is probably the reason these type buildings are so much cheaper than the red iron buildings. I got a good price quote on a red iron building. But all the guys I talked to wanted $2000 to put it up. That put the price well above the price of the galvanized building. And, the red iron building required anchor bolts in the concrete, in the correct places. So, that would have made the slab cost more.