Best place to buy 2x4's

[PintoPoint]

I am starting to frame my interior walls and need a good source for strait lumber.

Rick
Cholla Bay

 

[Roberto]

I assume you will use steel, what with the termites here ?

 

[PintoPoint]

These are for interior walls. All of the external is foam and concrete. The termites don't like the ICF's.

 

[Roberto]

I've seen them in some pretty strange places. They swarmed through a concrete wall at my apartment, came in along an electrical conduit !!

 

[mexicoruss]

I buy wood 2x4's at Los Pinos and the steel studs at perfiles y estructuras

 

[PintoPoint]

I buy wood 2x4's at Los Pinos and the steel studs at perfiles y estructuras

That's where I have been buying my lumber for all my shoring.

Thank,s

 

[jerry]

http://m.wikihow.com/Build-with-Steel-Studs. Well if you are finding poor quality lumber in RP check the Ace in Caborca by the tracks.There is a great seafood tent across the tracks too. Still as the wiki shows steel framing is not big deal...hey wait a minute you are a steel guy....just do it!

 

[PintoPoint]

http://m.wikihow.com/Build-with-Steel-Studs. Well if you are finding poor quality lumber in RP check the Ace in Caborca by the tracks.There is a great seafood tent across the tracks too. Still as the wiki shows steel framing is not big deal...hey wait a minute you are a steel guy....just do it!

Jerry,
I used steel studs on the first floor but I have a lot of curved walls and niches in the bedrooms and wood is easier for me to work with.

Thanks,

 

[jerry]

http://feng-shui.lovetoknow.com/The_Corners_in_a_Feng_Shui_Home. Back in the 80s we built a house for a Chinese gambler.Finallt went with all curved design...drove us crazy!

 

[PintoPoint]

http://feng-shui.lovetoknow.com/The_Corners_in_a_Feng_Shui_Home. Back in the 80s we built a house for a Chinese gambler.Finallt went with all curved design...drove us crazy!

Luckily its not a Feng Shui Home.

 

[garyd]

Jerry,
I used steel studs on the first floor but I have a lot of curved walls and niches in the bedrooms and wood is easier for me to work with.

Thanks,

That's funny. I found steel studs easier to work with than wood for curved walls. To each his own. Buena suerte

 

[PintoPoint]

That's funny. I found steel studs easier to work with than wood for curved walls. To each his own. Buena suerte

That's if you know what you are doing. I have only built strait walls. My understanding is that you need a crimping tool to curve the track.

Thanks,

 

[Cortez2]

That's if you know what you are doing. I have only built strait walls. My understanding is that you need a crimping tool to curve the track.

Thanks,

They make curvable track
http://www.flexabilityconcepts.com/flex-c-trac®-now-available-new-hammer-lock-feature

 

[garyd]

They make curvable track
http://www.flexabilityconcepts.com/flex-c-trac®-now-available-new-hammer-lock-feature

The other thing you can do is cut V notches on the bottom and top channels and adjust them to whatever layout you want and then secure them and install the studs

 

[PintoPoint]

The other thing you can do is cut V notches on the bottom and top channels and adjust them to whatever layout you want and then secure them and install the studs

I agree that it can be done but it goes beyond my experience when I have concrete floors and ceiling made out of concrete beams and foam. I also have compound curves. All I was really looking for was the place to buy good lumber.

 

[mondone]

Just my two cents... I would do whatever possible to avoid using wood in my home. The termites in RP are voracious. It doesn't take long for them to find a new place to dine as they are a swarming, flying variety. I had a portion of my roof collapse last year from them dining on the supports.