Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Clown-Free Zone... sorry, no clowns allowed -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Horgad who wrote (59236)	1/18/2001 12:28:16 PM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

I asked him about cost and he said the steel studs are getting to be as cheap as the wood ones and that the steel ones are easier to work with. I asked him if they were building houses with them and he said they are starting to. In general, I get the impression that most office walls are being build with the steel studs here in Indianapolis and that houses are just starting to be built with them. This all confirms what my guy was telling me. I see this change in trend as having a bigger impact on lumber prices than steel prices though. Purely a gut feel on my part. While you've got him there, ask him how much steel is really in one of those studs?