Building With Steel Studs

Steel studs are light and easy to store plus they resist fire insects and rot.

Building with steel studs.

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. Unlike wood which can arrive warped twisted or bent steel studs unless damaged always arrive perfectly straight. Read on to find out how to build with steel studs. While never as cheap as wood steel studs are now only.

Temporary structures and partitions are usually constructed with this kind of material. Metal framing studs are used to support a non load bearing wall. This kind of wall is commonly found at home depot or lowe s and is often referred to as light gauge metal framing. They are also easy to store.

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. Steel studs are perfectly straight and they don t shrink split rot or mold. 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.