A kit buyer is usually outside our crew radius, or already has a telehandler and three people who have bolted a portal. This page is for that person. The steel is the same as a Central Belt supply-and-fit job. The difference is who stands it, and who owns the lift insurance on the day.
We ship to any UK postcode we can get a wagon into. Aberdeenshire, Cumbria, Northumberland, the Highlands. The frame is hot-rolled steel, not a light cold-rolled pack with a farm photograph on the brochure.
What “kit” means on this invoice
Columns and rafters cut and drilled in the shop. Purlins. Bolts. Cladding to the colour and profile you picked. Drawings a competent erector can work from. That is the kit. It is not a telehandler, and it is not a weekend with a YouTube playlist if you have never stood steel. Foundations and groundworks stay with you or your foundation designer. We interface on base loads and holding-down bolts. See farm buildings.
Standard grid: spans 12 / 15 / 18 / 21 / 24 m, eaves 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 m, bays 4.5–6 m. Imperial is fine — the designer still thinks in feet under the hood. Odd sizes ship; they take a day longer in detailing.
When kit is the wrong buy
If the site is in the Lothians, Borders, Fife, Falkirk or the Glasgow fringe and you do not have a crew, buy supply-and-fit. If the building is complex livestock housing with a lot of junctions, supply and erect is the honest buy. A kit does not include the slab. Foundations and groundworks stay with you or your foundation designer. We interface on base loads and holding-down bolts. See farm buildings.
Kit is the right buy when you already priced a local lift, or you are far enough that our crews would be living in a van. Tell us the postcode. We will say which route is honest.
Lead time and the 24-hour price
After you approve sizes, a standard portal kit is usually weeks, not a season. Galvanising queues and cladding colour can move that. We put a date on the 24-hour price, not in a slogan. The price itself is not the table on the cost page. Guide bands are not published. A site photo gets a 24-hour price.
Planning still sits with you. Class 18 prior notification in Scotland; English and Welsh rules are different if the kit is crossing the border. We issue drawings for your agent. We do not lodge them. FFIS does not fund the kit, the roof or the concrete. CAGS can apply to eligible crofters for buildings — ask before you count it.
How to order without a DWG
Use, width, length, eaves, postcode, photo. Kit selected on the form. Email the picture to info@ff-steel.co.uk or use the contact form. If you want to play with bays first, design your farm shed and send that spec. Tick kit only if a crew is already on site. Otherwise ask for supply and erect.
Older kit copy lives at portal frame kit sheds Scotland. This page is the farmer-language version: no architect onboarding, no Class 6 (that heading is English; Scotland uses Class 18).
A kit farm shed leaving Penicuik is still a Scottish building even when the postcode is English. Snow and wind are sized for the site you photograph, not for a generic depot. If you are buying a livestock building kit for Fife or a machinery kit for the Borders, say the use on the form — cladding and galvanising change, the wagon does not.
We are not a 1990s kit warehouse. There is no showroom of coloured sheds. There is a contact form. If you wanted a fabricator who also pours concrete and sells cubicles, this is the wrong kit. If you wanted hot-rolled members and drawings you can stand, this is the door.