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Paint steel vs vinyl coated steel finishes?
What distinguishes paint steel from vinyl coated steel finishes? What are the benefits of each and overall, what one is, in your opinion, the better option?
Turning scrap metal into a fire pit
I have some large pieces of scrap metal that I'd like making into a fire pit for our garden. Can any metalworker do this?
Rules for metal constructions near airports?
Are there rules about metal constructions/adding metal elements to a home near an airport that relate to risk of interference with signals or is that not a thing? A friend of a friend suggested that there could be rules in place for that specific reason!
Planning permission for a barn?
Is planning permission always needed to construct a barn on farm land?
Stopping garden furniture from rusting
Will WD-40 stop metal garden furniture from rusting?
How to tell if a steel shed is galvanised or not?
There's a metal shed in my home since I moved in. How can I tell whether the steel it is made of is galvanised or ungalvanised? As I'd like to get a sense of its life expectancy.
Could I have a small aircraft hangar built?
Would I be able to have a small aircraft hangar built on my several acres of land? I'm looking to make a purchase of a small Cessna plane in 2023 so it would be perfect to have a small aircraft hangar to store it in. I won't be flying it or anything, it would simply be for storage purposes. I'd also want very good security too! What sort of pricing might I be looking at approximately for both labour and materials?
What is a prefab steel shed?
What exactly is a prefabricated steel shed? What might they be used for?
Extend or replace a metal shed?
Can an existing metal shed be extended or would it just make more sense to have it replaced with a larger shed?
Is aluminium corrosion free?
Is it true that aluminium doesn't rust or corrode? If so, is this true of all aluminium?
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