Tipton County · Memphis metro
Metal buildings in Munford, TN.
We supply shops, farm buildings, barndominium shells and more across Munford and Tipton County. Our work reaches from Atoka to Covington, and anywhere else you’re building. Tipton County is farm country, and Tennessee exempts non-residential farm buildings from its state minimum building standards.
Farm buildings
Exempt from state minimums
State residential code
Houses, not shops
Seismic loads
Can govern design
Permits
Confirmed by address
Inside Munford, the city’s rules apply. On rural Tipton County ground, we confirm the county’s requirements for your parcel.
What people build around Munford
Growing neighborhoods sit along the Highway 51 corridor, with row-crop ground on every side.
Machine sheds
Equipment storage serves the cotton, soybean and corn ground across the county. Red iron takes over past eighty feet.
Acreage shops
Tubular is hard to beat on an unfinished shop up to sixty feet wide.
Garages in town
Detached garages on neighborhood lots are sized around the house and the setbacks.
Barndominiums
Steel truss takes drywall directly, so there’s no wood wall to build inside the steel.
We also work in cold-formed steel. See what a steel building costs.
Permitting metal buildings in Munford and Tipton County
Tennessee leaves most of the rules for shops and farm buildings to cities and counties.
Inside Munford
- The city’s own zoning and permit rules apply inside city limits.
- We confirm the permit requirements and setbacks for your lot with the city before drawings.
Rural Tipton County
- Tennessee’s statewide residential program covers new houses, not detached garages or outbuildings.
- Non-residential farm buildings are exempt from the state’s minimum building standards.
- County zoning and floodplain rules can still apply, so we check your parcel.
Engineering
- Seismic loads near the New Madrid fault can shape the design here.
- Our generic engineering packages are wet-sealed, and occupied buildings are Risk Category II.
Light permitting doesn’t mean a light building. A farm building out here may need little or no local review, but it still has to carry the wind and seismic loads at its address. We engineer every building to where it sits, whatever the permit asks for.
We also serve Atoka, Brighton, Covington, Drummonds and the farm ground between them. See the Memphis metro or all of Tennessee.
Start with a conversation
Let’s talk about your Munford project.
Tell us what you’re planning and where you’re building. We’ll help you work out the next steps.
- Tell us what and whereSend us the size, how you’ll use the building and the address.
- We check the siteWe confirm who permits the address and which code and loads apply.
- You get a clear recommendationWe recommend the frame that fits and price it against the alternatives.
Or call
417-218-8348