Best place to buy 2x4's

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

Rick
Cholla Bay

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

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

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

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

mexicoruss said:

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

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 said:

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,

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!

jerry said:

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.

PintoPoint said:

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

garyd said:

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,

PintoPoint said:

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%C2%AE-now-available-new-hammer-lock-feature

Cortez2 said:

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

garyd said:

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.

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.