Moore Room gives more options for storage
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DENNIS MOORE
If you are familiar with Tuolumne County, you have undoubtedly seen one or more of the small steel buildings manufactured at the Moore Room Quality Buildings plant near Jamestown.
The county and Tuolumne Utilities District have purchased several. Others are located at Standard Park, the Tuolumne County Humane Society and at businesses and many private residences.
Moore Room, at Rawhide and French Flat roads, is growing in a "quality way," said Dennis Moore, president of Sierra Products Inc.
Moore recognized the need for a small annex -- a separated-type of structure near a house or business -- when his Livermore factory burned to the ground in 1978. All that was left useful was a small shed and its contents.
The pre-painted, galvanized steel buildings Moore sells come in sizes from eight-by-four-feet to 12-by-24 feet.
A "Shed Port" consists of a 10-by-18-foot-long carport attached to a 10-by-eight-foot work shed, all under the same extended roof. It can be assembled by the buyer in about 16 hours, or the Moore Room staff can install it.
The buildings come in the colors of colony green, white, tan and gray. They have also mixed in a few white side panels with the gray, tan and green siding, giving the buildings an unusual look that has proven popular.
The staff at Moore Room will install a building, or the homeowner can buy a kit and assemble a building at home, saving several hundred dollars in the purchase price. Floorless kits are another way to save money. By providing their own pickup and foundation, customers save about 40 percent of the regular price.
They have an "earthquake emergency building" where fresh water and other emergency supplies can be stored. Tilt down bunks are optional.
Staff members believe the contents of a Moore Room building would survive a "sweep through" type of fire.
"Properly situated, these rooms can last a lifetime," said Moore.
A building can be portable or permanently mounted, depending on whether its floor and foundation are built-in or bought as a "floorless kit."
The most popular sites for these buildings are where people need portable but readily accessible storage and protection from the elements, rodents and thieves.
Customers include the U.S. Navy, other government agencies and schools and businesses that use them for records and supplies, yielding more office space.
"Even our local Forest Service helicoptered one to a high peak for fire observation," said Moore.
The buildings can be put up quickly in limited spaces and, if someone "makes a mistake on location," they can be easily moved.
Other uses include offices, shops, tool sheds, wood sheds, garages, greenhouses, hobby rooms, tack rooms or factory annexes for dirty, smelly or fire threatening operations.
Carports (Roof Ports) are among other items manufactured at the plant, as well as shelving, benches, truck racks, picnic tables, fencing and even small bridges.
Moore Room
19266 Rawhide Road, Jamestown
984-3462