Pole Buildings Use Simple Pole Construction

Pole buildings are old and proven structures. Ancient cultures discovered the ease of pole building construction hundreds of years ago and nowadays it's catching on again. A basic pole structure is composed of vertical supports, horizontal members, rafters or trusses, and supports. Pole buildings are quite simple and sturdily constructed.

Embedded poles are in the ground and extend to the top of the building to support the roof. Skyscrapers are designed and constructed following the same philosophy albeit on a much larger scale using varied building materials.

Pole buildings are especially suited for barns, sheds, stores, warehouses, waterfront piers, roadside stands, plane hangars, and other easy shelters or structures. Lots of pole buildings are uninsulated and/or have one or more sides left open. Pole buildings construction can also be used to build vacation cabins and homes.

The practice of using pole construction for building holiday homes was started on the West Coast in the 1950s and had become more and more popular even though the cost of certain pole vacation homes can run as high as that of a similar conventional stud-frame house on a concrete foundation. It mostly depends upon the building design.

Advantages of embedded poles

Pole construction has become popular for a few reasons. The biggest reason is the ready availability of new materials specifically suited to pole building. The creation of pressure-treated poles and posts is the most important of these new materials. Because the embedded poles are possibly in constant contact with moisture and insects, pole construction is very dependent upon long-lasting, decay-resistant, and insect-resistant wood products.

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