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SteelStud is a Vancouver BC based construction company dedicated to offering good service and quality workmanship.
SteelStud is a Vancouver BC based construction company dedicated to offering good service and quality workmanship.
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Its time you folks knew the truth about wall <strong>contractors</strong> Vancouver.<br />
I actually is a separate person by nature.<br />
My number one interest for the last 3 decades has been steel studs and the new wonders that can be<br />
achieved using them.<br />
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Close friends, Don't go anywhere otherwise for your steel man f<strong>raming</strong> information. This site is<br />
written by a professional metal <strong>raming</strong> <strong>contractors</strong>.<br />
Age group is Just a Quantity<br />
I started my metallic stud career back when Disco ruled the airwaves and the Cold War was in full<br />
swing.<br />
I was told about a possible job opportunity by a friend i have who was vacating his position to<br />
commence a stint in the military. He said I could take his place if I needed. All I had to do was show<br />
up at the jobsite. As it was summer and I wasn't in school I figured I might go earn a few dollars and<br />
stay busy for a couple of months.<br />
When I showed up at the appointed place and time I found myself in front of an eight story high rise<br />
apartment building on the outskirts of Ohio. I climbed to the third floor, met the boss who handed<br />
myself a screwgun and was told to screw off of the bottoms of all the studs on that floor. This<br />
contained thirty-six apartments with several hundred steel studs each. I'll let you do the math. After<br />
a week of bending over pushing screws I experienced finally reached the last apartment and was<br />
overcome with a sense of elation knowing that my personal Hell had come to a end. I hurried<br />
upstairs to tell the boss I had been finished also to acknowledge what I was sure would be much<br />
back slapping and congratulations only to discover another floor packed with steel studs awaiting<br />
me. Meanwhile the f<strong>raming</strong> crew got already moved up to the next floor and were half way done<br />
with it.<br />
Thus started out my three decade romance with steel studs.<br />
Diamond jewelry in the Rough<br />
Just like steel is tempered in fire and diamonds are made under extreme heat and pressure so too are<br />
true craftsmen forged in the flames of experience. Just read was the days of piece work f<strong>raming</strong><br />
when you got paid on a production basis. Rates were by the lineal foot and if you weren't pushing<br />
screws you weren't getting paid. The more you might produce in an hour the more money you made.<br />
This was just the opposite of the hourly mindset of today in which the less you have to do to earn<br />
your hourly wage the better.<br />
Time was money and quality was of paramount importance because if you had to go back to fix<br />
something you did it on your dime. Now days and nights when a guy has to go back and fix his own<br />
work this individual looks at it as job security. My, now times have changed.