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Dave Hinz
 
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Default Internal room skeleton idea?

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:58:37 -0500, wrote:
Jim McGill wrote:

How about using steel studs like they use in commercial buildouts these
days? They're mass produced from folded sheet steel so they're cheap,
they pin together and they already have the holes for wiring runs in
them. B


They are fairly light as well, correct?
One man could handle them?


Extremely light, and not a lot of resistance to twisting. They need to
be in a fairly well self-supporting system to be structural. I'd go
with the pipe system idea myself.