Steel Framing:
Specifying: When ordering steel framing materials, it’s important to be aware of the variety and applications of the various shapes, encapsulated by the acronym STUFL.
These letters stand for Stud, Track, U channel, Furring, and L-header, pictured at the bottom of the page.
A stud includes wall studs, joists and rafters because they are all of the same shape. Track is the top and bottom “plates” of a steel wall or the rim of floors and rafters. U-channel can be used for bridging, blocking and customized for cabinet backing. Furring channel is used as purlins, bridging, backing, and for subassembly sound separation. L-headers are brake-metal shaped members that can be doubled and used as headers.
Cold-formed steel is specified by a universal designator system called out by web dimension, shape, flange dimension and thickness. Web and flange sizes are expressed in 1/100ths of an inch and thickness is expressed in 1/1000ths of an inch, or “mils”.
For any of the steel framing requirement write your specifications and get a quote
