Building With Steel Studs

Metal studs are impervious to fire termites rot splitting and any other number of hazards which can affect any kind of organic based building material namely wood.

Building with steel studs.

Steel framing is used in most office and commercial construction and it has several advantages over wood. While never as cheap as wood steel studs are now only. And you ll really like the fact that steel studs are about 30 percent cheaper than wood. They are also easy to store.

Metal framing studs are used to support a non load bearing wall. Steel studs are perfectly straight and they don t shrink split rot or mold. Steel studs are light and easy to store plus they resist fire insects and rot. Temporary structures and partitions are usually constructed with this kind of material.

At first you ll find framing with steel studs to be slower than with wood studs because you ll be working with unfamiliar materials techniques and tools. Framing with steel studs cost about the same as working with wood studs but you have the advantage of a light material which resists to moisture fire and insects. Read on to find out how to build with steel studs.