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Building Framing with Metal Studs

Ron Gan explains the advantages of using metal wall studs in the galley kitchen. They are generally cheaper than wood, lighter, less suseptable to warping and fireproof. Ron demostrates a metal stud cutter and installing the framing.
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Building Framing with Metal Studs

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" We're in our Galley kitchen, and we're standing at this end of it, and it's 24 feet across all the way to the brick wall back there. And right now, we're building the wall that separates it from the hall. We're making it out of metal studs."

" Why metal studs, Ron?"

" Well Bob, metal studs are righter for 1, okay?"

" Uh huh."

" In wood carrier, they're cheaper than wood studs, both in the material and the labor."

" Yeah."

" The fact that they are metal means they don't warp and twist, so we get a nice cooler wall with them."

" They're fireproof? You don't have to worry about termites. There's a lot of pros. Are they easy to work with?"

" Very good."

" How do you----"

" Very, very easy to work it."

" We have to cut them with a hacksaw or something?"

" No. No. In fact, we have this great little tool right here, a metal stud cutter."

" Yeah."

" And we're gonna show you right now how we cut a stud."

" Okay."

" You can choose if it fits any gauges here, a 5 or 358 metal stud."

" Yeah."

" You just get it to your line and fold the handle down."

" Drop it down. Drop it down."

" And there you go. Now, if you didn't have 1 of those, could you cut it with a circular saw?"

" Yeah. You just have to fit it with a mason blade."

" Okay."

" That's all."

" Alright. And how do you fasten all these pieces together?"

" Well, we set them on the plates, and Mohammed is gonna come over here and show us how right now. It's like a little erector set. You just kind of put it at an angle, snap the bottom end 1st, and then the top, and then just cut them through the side----"

" And they're gonna hold themselves up like that----"

" Right."

" for the time being."

" And even if they're not exactly per size, you can use these little clips right here and slip it on, and that will hold them in place."

" Temporarily. Temporarily."

" Yeah. They've all been precut, and boy, the speed with which they go up."

" And of course, up at the top, you fasten your plates to the joist with----"

" It looks like a sheetrock screw."

" A sheetrock screw."

" Yeah. You should have half a drywall so there's only, it's just not every joist up there and will hold this conveyor very well."

" Good."

" And what about leveling them though. Doesn't he have to----"

" Yeah, he's gonna level them right now."

" Oh, okay."

" We have a handy little tool right here, a magnetic level, and he can shut that right on there."

" I love it."

" Okay."

" Yeah."

" You can then flip it, the top and the bottom."

" Uh huh."

" And then, he puts 1 of this in, Bob."

" So you fasten them with a small, well it looks like a sheet metal stick."

" Right. We just call those mini screws."

" Mini screws."

" Right."

" I don't, Ron. There's a little bit of flimsiness here."

" Well, it looks flimsy Bob, and we've put the drywall on both sides so they're gonna stick them up real good and the drywall welcome that."

" But instead, it's a kitchen wall, and you're gonna be hanging overhead cabinets and attaching other cabinets here."

" Well, we have a little trick. Let me show you what that is here that will make it real easy for us to hang our kitchen cabinets. And now, we'll hammer this, putting up a piece of channel or something into a 58 metal studs, and he's screwing it in here. If wanted the beauty of the metal stud is that it can be all kinds of stuff for something like this."

" here, we're gonna have a real sound rocking kitchen."

" Oh, yeah."

" Now 1 of the real nice benefits of this is you don't have to go hunting for a stud----"

" Uh huh."

" to screw your cabinet into."

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