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 So you have been thinking about a steel building, a storage building, an RV garage, a hobby shop or maybe just a steel garage to keep your toys out of the weather and give you room to store all of that stuff that accumulates.

First let's take a look at your needs. What are you going to store in the steel structure?

Do you plan to store a Recreational Vehicle?

If you plan to store an RV, you will need to metal scrap the clearance height of your RV. My experience shows that you will need at least 13'-6" of clearance for a Class A motor coach.

Many of you may not own a Class A motor coach and the RV that you currently own is only 12' tall. Look a few years down the road, you never know you may trade up to a Class A coach one day. This is something to consider and another reason to research steel building plans.

That being said lets get back to planning your RV Garage:

We will use the following as an example and say that you have decided that you want a 36' long Class A coach to fit in your new RV storage building. To facilitate your RV you will need a building that is at least 40' long. The width of the building is easy to figure out, the side wall or eave height is a little more difficult.

The best way to decide on the side wall height is to start with the garage door or overhead door. The minimum size garage door requirement for a Class A - RV is 10' wide x 14' tall. The 12' wide door would actually be a better size so lets plan on using a garage door that is 12' wide x 14' high. Now we need to calculate the eave height that your new structure will require.

Most garage doors require at least 18" and up to 24"of headroom or space above the garage door. I know I have been rambling here but we have finally decided on the minimum size steel structure that is required to house a 36' long Class A Motor Coach.

Your new RV garage needs to be at least 14' wide x 40' long with a 15.5' eave height or side wall height. Let's take note - that is the minimum size storage structure. You can always build a larger building; say for instance you may want to have enough room to open your slide-outs or storage compartments while your RV is under roof. This is something that you will definitely need to take into consideration while you are planning.

The same methods used to plan an RV garage can be used to decide the size requirements you may have for a steel building, steel storage building, a steel hobby shop or steel garage that has other uses.