WarDamnEagle
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Excellent commentary; thanks. Do you have photos of this type of setup? Are you speaking of metal with a profile or flat? Again, photos would be nice. Fully agree with the comment about framing around or in front of the beams; total waste. My latest thought was to actually frame inside the struts (Z purlins) and even keep the struts exposed.I prefer bright white metal siding on the walls and ceiling. In work areas prone to damage and dirt I like the look of a metal wainscoting setup where you use a darker color like gray for the lower 4 feet, then a flat beltline trim where you can put all your outlets and airlines, then white from 4' up to the ceiling. Lots of ways you can attach it using metal or wood framing. In a steel building, I would screw the metal siding directly to the Z purlins leaving the steel support beams exposed. When I've seen the insides of steel buildings where guys have tried to conceal the steel beams by framing around them or spacing the interior wall way out it looks all kinds of wrong and wasteful.
My home septic is pumped. Because of the location of old drainfields and two water wells the septic is pumped over 500 feet to the new drainfield. There's only a few feet elevation change though. I would wager your situation would work just fine with a pumped setup. Pump isn't a big deal. Well, it isn't until your toddler is able to reach the breaker panel and turns off both bottom breakers that happen to be for the pump and the high level alarm and you don't catch it for a week.
One of our last US houses had a grinder pump into a pressurized main and we never had any trouble with it. There's just a lot of trees between there and the house; not to mention a driveway but I'm sure it's doable.