Steel crazy after all these years.................

As with our current home, I strongly prefer framing a house out of steel, and that steel was finally delivered, now that the slab and foundation walls are cured and ready.

Besides freedom from termites and rot, there are other benefits of using steel. Fire resistance, of course is another factor. And holes are already in the joists & studs for the electrical wiring.

With wood framing there is sometimes waste due to warped or unusable pieces, and sometimes you will have nail pops in the finished sheetrock, as the wood dries and shrinks.

I also noticed another advantage this week. Because the steel members are "U" shaped, 2 pieces of steel occupy the same amount of storage space as 1 comparable piece of wood. So this stack of steel would have taken up twice the space of it's wood counterparts.