| Rhino Steel Building Systems, Denton, Texas - Many | | | | professional “finished look” to the interior |
| potential buyers of steel buildings believe that they | | | | eliminating the need for painting or covering the |
| are difficult to insulate from the weather. This is | | | | interior with more expensive and less effective |
| absolutely not true, according to Bruce Brown, | | | | materials. |
| president of Rhino Steel Building Systems. “We | | | | Rhino Steel Building Systems is organized in two |
| have several effective methods of insulating our | | | | division, the Steel Buildings division and Steel frame |
| pre-engineered buildings, and none greater than our | | | | homes division. Steel buildings can include virtually any |
| newest insulation package, named the Rhino Pro | | | | type of building application imaginable, such as steel |
| Value Insulation System. “ Many of the problems | | | | barns, steel garages, horse barn designs, small or |
| with insulating pre-fabricated Steel Buildings have to | | | | giant manufacturing plants, modular industrial office, |
| do more with errors in installation than anything else. | | | | steel gymnasiums, churches, metal storage buildings, |
| It’s true, that the entropy (or temperature | | | | office buildings, horse arenas, aircraft hangars, auto |
| migration) of steel is far greater than wood, and if | | | | repair buildings and many more. A Rhino metal building |
| improperly installed, exposed metal purlins and girts | | | | is specifically designed to meet wind and snow load |
| can import extreme temperature from outside the | | | | requirements for the buyer's specific area of the |
| building. The Rhino Pro Value package includes the | | | | country as well as other requirements related to the |
| use of insulators and the almost complete filling of | | | | performance of the structure. Rhino does not sell an |
| the purlin and girt cavities that virtually eliminate | | | | arch steel building. Rhino's steel frame home division |
| temperature transfer. Additionally, a special liner fabric | | | | sells a unique "panelized" framing kit, including walls, |
| protects from condensation that can plague metal | | | | trusses and all other framing materials and fasteners |
| buildings not otherwise protected. “We offer | | | | necessary to complete the basic framing system. |
| other types of insulation that are also effective and | | | | Here again, Rhino's all steel homes are not prefab |
| can provide helpful installation tips as well,” Brown | | | | homes but steel frame buildings specifically designed |
| says. One added bonus of the Rhino Pro Value | | | | for a wide variety of family needs in varying |
| System has to do with a special low maintenance | | | | environments. Also, pre-fab homes do not have the |
| vapor barrier that covers the otherwise exposed | | | | modern architecture that typify rhino all steel homes. |
| purlins and girts. If this is installed, it creates a | | | | |