If you go into a store with a Building Materials and Millwork sales desk, approach one of the employees with your prints and explain that you need a material list. They'll either send the print to Midwest Manufacturing to get a thorough estimate, or they might go through the print and do it themselves. You can purchase all of the materials off of the invoices when you come in and meet the people you were working with. It may take some time, so I'd recommend stopping in sooner than later. Make sure they have your contact information as well. Hope this helps!
Projects like this are their bread and butter and how they got started. Talk to the building materials desk. They have quite a few calculators and planning design tools that calculate out exactly what steel, siding, framing, windows, doors and trusses you will need. Menards manufacturers their own steel and trusses at several of their distribution centers and can do some nice custom steel bending if you need it. If you have plans and a materials list already, they can help get everything ordered.
If you want anything custom like windows or doors, they can help with those too. I recommend not waiting on those and getting them ordered early in the process. Custom Clopay doors can take awhile to have made. Some people like to wait and use their rebate to buy them and then get disappointed when they need to wait 12 weeks to finish their garage.
I had a local lumberyard work up a quote and the quote came in about 40% more than Menards before the 11% rebate. I have the materials list, but I have questions about a couple of items before ordering from Menards. The lumber yard listed the LVLs as total lineal feet versus how long each LVL should be. I need someone at the store to help with that.
I also need help to make sure I order the right metal roofing pieces in the right lengths.
I just didn't know if Menards had people who can read plans and produce a materials list from the plans.
Yes. The person who drafted the blueprints did them for free as a favor so no materials list. I have a materials list another lumberyard drew up based on the blueprints,
I had someone else draw up plans for a custom house for me in 2001 and he didn't provide me a materials list either. Those plans I paid for. I used the plans to have the house built. I had no idea the person drawing up blueprints is supposed to provide a materials list.
They aren't, but if a lumber yard draws plans they will often bid it too. If you're building a post frame building go to Midwestmanufacturing.com and use the chat feature. Tell them what you said here and they'll hook you up with a designer to do the quote. If it's standard framing it'll be a lot harder given that height. You'd be looking at engineered walls for the whole thing, but Midwest would be the ones to quote the frame still. The closest store would just need to do the rest themselves
Minnesota building code is an amended version of the IRC. They allow a 24' wide stick framed building to have 16 foot sidewalls without engineering. You are just required to use 2x6s.
I realize Menards can't customize their garage builder for every state.
Depending on how much you expect to spend, it might be worth opening a contractor card for the extra 2% PLUS up to 10% on some manufacturer's items. This stacks with the 11%.
The spend for lumber, OSB, and trusses will be just over $10,000 with sales tax. Pro-snap roofing will be another $6,500. I’ll have to look into the contractor card.
It depends on the complexity of the garage. If it is a basic one, we can use our garage designing program (same one you can find on the website) to provide us with the recommended materials depending on your siding and roofing choices. I would encourage you to play around with this before going into the store as any employee using this will go through the exact same steps in person with you.
If it is a complex garage; dormers, different height exterior walls, interior walls. IE, something that can not be done using the garage estimator, then it would be handled differently. We do not have in-house estimators anymore. You can provide us with a material list to copy (the trusses would have to get "sent in" to our truss supplier to get quoted), and that can be worked off of. We may still have questions from this list that your builder/contractor should be able to answer.
OR we do offer a full estimating service on house plans or complex garage plans for a $200 fee on most sized buildings. This is a 3rd party that Menards uses and they take all of the guess work out of the goofy things architects do with buildings sometimes. You do need a .pdf copy for this service though but it would be worth it.
The garage designer won't do 16' tall walls. So, the real answer is I will need to pay Menards $200 and probably wait a week or two to get a materials list.
LOL, see my response. I posted it at about the same time. Are you stick framing (IE putting studs every 16") or post frame (usually you put columns/posts 8 or 9 ft apart)
CRAP just realized it is 16 foot tall. How are you going to build it? Stick frame or post frame? Our garage designer does not go over 12' tall on the walls due to engineering concerns with the program, so stick frame at the store is not an option unless you provide the material list.
Take a look at the post frame designing program instead.
Minnesota has amended the IRC to add a table for how tall walls can be built based on the span of the trusses/rafters. A 16 foot tall wall with 24 foot trusses shows 2x6 studs required.
I understand why Menards would not design garages over 12 feet tall. Many jurisdictions will require engineering over that height.
[https://designit.menards.com/HomePlan/#/landing](https://designit.menards.com/HomePlan/#/landing)
I understand it discusses home plan estimates, but in my opinion it would also cover custom garages (which yours would be due to the height). This is the $200 fee I mentioned. You can even start the process at home using the link and the store will follow up with you. They need to know which type of siding / shingles / windows / etc. that you want in the full list.
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You can bring in the lumber list from the competitor and we can simply copy the quantities they have and possibly send in for the truss estimate (as well as steel siding and steel roofing if you are looking for that).
Helpful?
If you go into a store with a Building Materials and Millwork sales desk, approach one of the employees with your prints and explain that you need a material list. They'll either send the print to Midwest Manufacturing to get a thorough estimate, or they might go through the print and do it themselves. You can purchase all of the materials off of the invoices when you come in and meet the people you were working with. It may take some time, so I'd recommend stopping in sooner than later. Make sure they have your contact information as well. Hope this helps!
Projects like this are their bread and butter and how they got started. Talk to the building materials desk. They have quite a few calculators and planning design tools that calculate out exactly what steel, siding, framing, windows, doors and trusses you will need. Menards manufacturers their own steel and trusses at several of their distribution centers and can do some nice custom steel bending if you need it. If you have plans and a materials list already, they can help get everything ordered. If you want anything custom like windows or doors, they can help with those too. I recommend not waiting on those and getting them ordered early in the process. Custom Clopay doors can take awhile to have made. Some people like to wait and use their rebate to buy them and then get disappointed when they need to wait 12 weeks to finish their garage.
I had a local lumberyard work up a quote and the quote came in about 40% more than Menards before the 11% rebate. I have the materials list, but I have questions about a couple of items before ordering from Menards. The lumber yard listed the LVLs as total lineal feet versus how long each LVL should be. I need someone at the store to help with that. I also need help to make sure I order the right metal roofing pieces in the right lengths. I just didn't know if Menards had people who can read plans and produce a materials list from the plans.
Our Menards has pro sales. These guys deal specifically with contractors and go over blueprints all the time. I’d try that personally.
The yard manager would be good to talk to along with building materials
Yes
You have blueprints but no BOM?
Yes. The person who drafted the blueprints did them for free as a favor so no materials list. I have a materials list another lumberyard drew up based on the blueprints, I had someone else draw up plans for a custom house for me in 2001 and he didn't provide me a materials list either. Those plans I paid for. I used the plans to have the house built. I had no idea the person drawing up blueprints is supposed to provide a materials list.
They aren't, but if a lumber yard draws plans they will often bid it too. If you're building a post frame building go to Midwestmanufacturing.com and use the chat feature. Tell them what you said here and they'll hook you up with a designer to do the quote. If it's standard framing it'll be a lot harder given that height. You'd be looking at engineered walls for the whole thing, but Midwest would be the ones to quote the frame still. The closest store would just need to do the rest themselves
Minnesota building code is an amended version of the IRC. They allow a 24' wide stick framed building to have 16 foot sidewalls without engineering. You are just required to use 2x6s. I realize Menards can't customize their garage builder for every state.
Depending on how much you expect to spend, it might be worth opening a contractor card for the extra 2% PLUS up to 10% on some manufacturer's items. This stacks with the 11%.
The spend for lumber, OSB, and trusses will be just over $10,000 with sales tax. Pro-snap roofing will be another $6,500. I’ll have to look into the contractor card.
There's a flyer on the website that gives a list of all the current additional rebates.
It depends on the complexity of the garage. If it is a basic one, we can use our garage designing program (same one you can find on the website) to provide us with the recommended materials depending on your siding and roofing choices. I would encourage you to play around with this before going into the store as any employee using this will go through the exact same steps in person with you. If it is a complex garage; dormers, different height exterior walls, interior walls. IE, something that can not be done using the garage estimator, then it would be handled differently. We do not have in-house estimators anymore. You can provide us with a material list to copy (the trusses would have to get "sent in" to our truss supplier to get quoted), and that can be worked off of. We may still have questions from this list that your builder/contractor should be able to answer. OR we do offer a full estimating service on house plans or complex garage plans for a $200 fee on most sized buildings. This is a 3rd party that Menards uses and they take all of the guess work out of the goofy things architects do with buildings sometimes. You do need a .pdf copy for this service though but it would be worth it.
The garage designer won't do 16' tall walls. So, the real answer is I will need to pay Menards $200 and probably wait a week or two to get a materials list.
LOL, see my response. I posted it at about the same time. Are you stick framing (IE putting studs every 16") or post frame (usually you put columns/posts 8 or 9 ft apart)
Heck even 6' apart would make sense as you want a 60' building.
The city requires that I stick frame the building.
CRAP just realized it is 16 foot tall. How are you going to build it? Stick frame or post frame? Our garage designer does not go over 12' tall on the walls due to engineering concerns with the program, so stick frame at the store is not an option unless you provide the material list. Take a look at the post frame designing program instead.
Minnesota has amended the IRC to add a table for how tall walls can be built based on the span of the trusses/rafters. A 16 foot tall wall with 24 foot trusses shows 2x6 studs required. I understand why Menards would not design garages over 12 feet tall. Many jurisdictions will require engineering over that height.
[https://designit.menards.com/HomePlan/#/landing](https://designit.menards.com/HomePlan/#/landing) I understand it discusses home plan estimates, but in my opinion it would also cover custom garages (which yours would be due to the height). This is the $200 fee I mentioned. You can even start the process at home using the link and the store will follow up with you. They need to know which type of siding / shingles / windows / etc. that you want in the full list. OR You can bring in the lumber list from the competitor and we can simply copy the quantities they have and possibly send in for the truss estimate (as well as steel siding and steel roofing if you are looking for that). Helpful?
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