| LGS Home Industries is a California licensed general contractor that can assist you in every aspect of your home construction or remodel.
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LGS is a certified steel truss manufacturer. Builders, let us make your trusses stronger, staighter, and lighter than any wood truss you've ever worked with. |
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We also supply builders and contractors with the amazing Lockjaw™ pliers with their patented "Set It and Forget It" self-adjusting vise-grip technology. For more information, see our Tool Store when it becomes available under Resources in the menu above. (Available by end of January 2008!) |
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Why Steel? |
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Page 2 of 3 Advantages and Benefits of Building with Steel 3,4,5,6,7
| Advantage | Benefit | - Galvanized steel is noncumbustible.
| - Steel does not burn nor contribute to the spread of a fire.
- Your home is safer and less vulnerable to fire, which could result in lower insurance premiums.
| - Combined with the use of framing screws that resist uplifting loads more effectively than nails, steel framing produces a structure that performs favorably compared to other building materials during hurricanes and earthquakes.
| - Your home will have a higher probability of surviving an earthquake intact: lighter materials create a lighter structure with stronger connections that results in less seismic force.
- Higher probability of surviving high winds: screws provide a uch stronger connection than conventional nailing.
| - Steel has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any building material.
| - High strength results in safer structures, less maintenance, and slower aging of structure.
| | - Termites and other insects and pests cannot eat steel.
- Unlike wood and other conventional materials, steel is not vulnerable to any type of fungi or organism, including mold.
- It will not warp, split, crack, or creep.
| - Galvanized steel studs are manufactured in the quality-controlled setting of a factory and produced in strict accordance with national standards, no regional variations.
| - Your home will have truly square corners and straighter walls.
- Windows and doors open and close as they should.
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