Pole barn steel for wheel house

[JSK76]

I'm replacing the vinyl siding on my wheel house and I'm thinking of going with pole barn steel (Pro Rib) I was just wondering who has it on their wheel house and how it holds up to road salt as far as rusting. I'm going to run it horizontal and and not sure yet how I'm going to do the corners but thinking of doing aluminum diamond plate like on the manufactured wheel houses. If any one has pole barn steel sided fish house and wouldn't mind posting some pics I would love to see them to help get some ideas on color and corner trim.

[spear foot 1]

Have had pole barn steel on my house for over ten years and love it, no

problems

[Lip_Ripper Guy]

Works great. I used the J-trim for the top and bottom, and their corner trim. I would personally put diamond plate around the bottom...especially in front. I ran my rubber roof over the top J-trim, and screwed the termination strip into the outside. 100% waterproof.

One problem some people have run into is lack of clearance for their winches because of the ribs in the siding.

[arcticcat400]

i have seen it on many houses and seems to work well. i was thinking about doing it on my house anyone have any idea how much heavier this stuff is compared to aluminum?

[MinnGuy]

Use the right tools to cut and it won't be bad. I didn't - was a pain to cut with hand tools. But the metal works great and should last a long time.

[Hawg]

I'm interested in the weight also. I have accsses to steel siding but was told it's about 2 1/2 times heavier than the .40 alluminum. Anybody know the facts?

[Always Fishing]

I used steel siding mainly because of cost. I did this 8'x14' with 4'V and the weight of the siding and trim came in around 260lbs. I don't know how much the aluminum weights so I can't say how much weight savings it would have been.

[JSK76]

There is a huge misconception about this. I took the time to do the research and you won't believe it. 1 square foot of white .016 ProRib steel is .656 lbs (weighed it myself) one squat foot of .040 painted aluminum is .585 lbs. My 6x12 with a 2' semi V is roughly 350 sqft not including the roof when you figure for deducting for windows and door and also some diamond plate aluminum up front with aluminum it would weigh 204# and with pole barn steel 229.6 a difference of 24.85#. I can live with that and actually bought the steel last weekend.

[JSK76]

Before I get jumped on for the steel being 1/2 as thick as the aluminum I do believe the .040 is what is used for fish house siding in aluminum, and that's the gauge Fish House Supply sells.