Halls built to your dimensions

We cannot give an exact figure without your details, but four things move the price more than anything else:

• Size and shape: floor area and eaves height are the biggest single factors.
• Insulation: a heated hall needs a full insulated build-up, so it costs more than an unheated one.
• Specification: how many sectional doors, pedestrian doors, windows and internal partitions you need, and to what standard.
• Foundations: ground conditions on your plot decide how much groundwork is required.

As a rule of thumb, a small unheated machinery shed sits at the bottom of the range and a large, fully fitted heated industrial building sits in a different bracket altogether. Send us your requirements and we will price it properly.

Yes, and most of what we deliver is exactly that. The standard models are there to give you a starting point; the majority of our halls are one-offs. We can set:

• Exact dimensions: width, length and eaves height to suit your plot and your machinery.
• Door and window positions: to suit your traffic flow and to bring in daylight where you need it.
• Appearance: cladding materials and colours to match your other buildings or your brand.
• Internal layout: where the office, welfare and storage areas sit.

Tell us what you have in mind and we will engineer it and supply it.

Yes. Warehouse, industrial unit, sports hall or agricultural building – we work from the drawings you already have. If you have not got that far, our designers will draw it with you.

You can pick the package that matches your budget and the trades you already have. The usual options are:

• Precut kit: timber cut to size and marked up, which you or a local carpenter put together. The cheapest route if you have the site skills.
• Panelised delivery: walls and roof arrive as large factory-made panels, which cuts the time your crew spends on site.
• Weathertight shell: frame, roof covering, external cladding, doors and windows, so the building can be closed in. A contractor you appoint erects it on the foundations.
• Extended delivery: by agreement we widen the package to cover internal materials and fittings as well as the shell.

Groundwork, foundations and erection on site are always handled by a contractor you appoint. Polarlog supplies the building package, the drawings and technical support; we do not carry our own site crew.

It varies, but the work falls into three stages:

• Design and consents (1–3 months): usually the longest stage. Determination times vary by local planning authority; in England the statutory target for most applications is eight weeks. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland run their own systems.
• Manufacture and groundworks (1–2 months): we build the components in the factory while your contractor puts in the groundworks and foundations.
• Erection (1–4 weeks): the quick part. Because the building is prefabricated, putting it up usually takes days rather than weeks, depending on size.

Plan it well and you can be using the building three to six months after you commit.

Almost always, yes. A building of this size normally needs planning permission from your local planning authority, and Building Regulations approval is a separate consent on top of that.

Some small outbuildings fall under permitted development rights and need no planning application, but the limits differ between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – your local planning authority will confirm what applies to your site.

We cannot apply on your behalf, but we do supply the planning drawings you need to attach to the application – floor plans, elevations and sections – and we are happy to talk you through the process.