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William 1 posted:

This discussion is very similar to the posts that come up regularly asking how to clean the track.  Yes, there are dozens of ways to 'skin a cat', but why not use the method that has been proven to work instead of experimenting with something else.  

Last thought on steel being used to frame a house.  The carpenters I work with regularly can frame a 5000 sq ft house with a fancy cut roof in 2-3 weeks using lumber.   Using steel would probably take at least twice as long. Probably four times.  Just having to screw everything together instead of using nail guns would take three times the time.  Plus having to weld pieces etc.,  cutting bird's mouth ends and attaching the rafter to the hips and ridges...  How do attach the sub fascia to the rafter ends?  How are you going to fasten interior trim , hang doors... The list is endless.  Completely impractical.  In  35 years of being in the home building business one way or the other, I have never seen steel used to frame a house.  Bad way to skin a cat.  Bad way to build benchwork as well.  I would never do it.

William we're not building a house, just a base structure to sit some plywood on top.

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