RESIDENTIAL STEEL FRAMING SERVICES
American Steel Frame Services, Inc. is a multi-faceted residential steel framing company that offers consumers a variety of professional building services nationwide. Located in Akron, Ohio, American Steel Frame Services, Inc. has seen enormous success by meeting the needs of individual home owners, steel frame home distributors, and general contractors nationwide. We believe our on-going success is a direct result of our unconditional commitment to the excellence of our services, the knowledge of our staff, and to the complete satisfaction of our customers.
The following is a general list of the services and products we offer our customers:
1. Steel Frame Home Plans Services
2. Steel Frame Home Packages
3. Nationwide Steel Erection/Framing Services
These are each described in detail below, so scroll down to learn more about these quality services and products we offer and to learn how we may help you with your project.
STEEL FRAME HOME PLANS SERVICES AND PRICES:
American Steel Frame Services, Inc. now offers architectural and engineering services for generating steel frame home plans. Specifically, we draft and engineer steel frame home plans and construction drawings for your custom steel frame home project. We convert your standard wood frame home plans to steel frame home plans. We can convert virtually any standard home plan to our steel frame home plans and erection drawings. The following is a general list of what our steel frame home plans contain:
1. Architectural Drawings, including:
a. Floor plan (adjusted for steel frame measurements and framing members)
b. Elevations (front, rear, right, left, roof)
c. Window and Door schedules
2. Structural Drawings, including:
a. Footprint of foundation
b. First floor framing layout drawing and construction details
c. Second floor framing layout drawing and construction details
d. Wall by Wall framing drawings details (these may be drawn in panelized wall sections if you desire - if so, each wall panel will not exceed a certain length - i.e. 10' )
e. Individual Truss Fabrication Drawings and Construction Details
f. Roof Truss layout drawing and construction details
3. Engineer Stamp:
a. We can provide the necessary engineering stamp(s) on our drawings required by your area.
4. Steel Framing Material & Fasteners Ordering Lists:
a. We will provide you with a complete list of the steel framing materials and fasteners you will need to frame the home to our plans. These will be written in the national industry designator codes, ready to be photocopied by you and sent to your local steel and fastener suppliers for bids on your project.
Our steel material and fastener lists help to save the customer thousands of dollars on their project by allowing them to purchase their steel framing materials locally. By dealing direct with their local steel manufacturer/supplier, the customer eliminates large shipping costs and the profit margin of middle men selling steel framing 'packages' from far away. Also, by getting their material locally, material errors are corrected quicker resulting in less down time on the project. Most areas have more than one light gauge steel supplier, so numerous bids can be generated by the customer. The customer can then be assured he or she got the best price.
Our plans and drawing were created with the do-it-yourselfer and first-time steel framer in mind. Emphasis was given on their clarity and comprehension. Furthermore, they are COMPLETE! Complete in the sense that every stud, every angle clip, every connection, is drawn and/or detailed for complete understand and clarity. We believe there exist no clearer, better understood, and more complete steel frame home plans on the market today! Nevertheless, if the customer ever has a question regarding anything in our plans, our technical support is always available to them during normal business hours.
Typically, we can offer our customers our steel frame home plan service for $2.00 to $3.00 a square foot. (Based upon the total square footage of the structure under roof.)
STEEL FRAME HOME PACKAGES:
We design, engineer, fabricate, and ship our own steel frame home packages nationwide, throughout Canada, and the Virgin Islands. We have recently given our steel frame homes the product name of "Quality Steel Frame Homes", because we want to convey to our customers the level of quality that is inherent in every one of our steel frame homes that is not often matched by other companies.
Most consumers believe that all steel frame homes are the same because they believe all steel is the same. This is simply not true. We use only the BEST availabe steel and fasteners in all of our steel frame homes. What makes these the BEST? Not simply our opinion but the ratings each of these items have. For instance, all of the structural steel we use is light gauge steel with a G90 coating. G90 is a galvanized coating that offers a superior corrosion resistance . Because of this, G90 coated steel is often mandatory in locations for beach homes that are within about 300' of the ocean due to the salt spray in the air and the corrosion it can cause on lesser coated steel. We offer G90 coated steel in ALL of our homes, not just the ones near the ocean! Does it cost more, yes. The higher cost is the reason 99% of the other steel frame home companies out there do not use G90 steel but the lesser grade G60 steel that offers an inferior corrosion resistance.
Similarly, regarding fasteners, most companies use zinc plated screws for attaching the steel frame together. Fasteners are rated by 'salt testing' in the form of hours. Simply put, the fasteners are placed in a chamber and a certain amount of salt air is pumped into the chamber. The fasteners are rated by the number hours that goes by until they begin to corrode. Zinc plated fasteners have a 20 to 70 hour rating. The fasteners we use in ALL of our homes have a 1,000 hour rating! That is over 10 times the corrosion resistance of our competitors! Is this important? We think so. Consider that it is these fasteners that are holding the entire steel frame together! Again, does this cost us more? Absolutely. And, again, this higher cost is why 99% of the other steel frame home companies offer only the inferior zinc plated fasteners with their steel frame home packages.
Please do not take our word for any of this. Ask any of the other steel frame home companies you are getting prices from as to what galvanized coating they use on their steel and what the salt rating is on their fasteners (in terms of hours) that they have included in your estimate. It is because we use quality materials in all of our homes that we have given our steel frame homes the product name, "Quality Steel Frame Homes".
QUALITY STEEL FRAME HOMES GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS:
Our Quality Steel Frame Home packages include all of the following items:
1. Blueprints including floor plan, elevations, roof truss fabrication drawings, roof framing plan, 2D drawings of each and every load bearing wall in the home, wall fabrication drawings, floor system layout/installation drawings for any and all floor systems, and all required structural details, drawings, and engineering stamps/seals.
2. All light gauge steel framing materials, including all steel 5.5" or 3.5” exterior wall studs, all 3.5” interior wall studs, all structural headers and header materials, all steel frame floor floor systems, all window and door rough opening steel framing materials, and all light gauge steel trusses.
3. All steel framing fasteners for all steel to steel connections required to erect/frame the steel frame home package.
4. Any necessary clips, wind bracing, angles, hangers, and hurricane strapping.
5. All steel frame soffit and facia framing material.
6. All shipping costs to the job site.
7. Technical support throughout the completion of your home.
Please note, the specific gauges/thickness of the each of the steel components listed above are determined by our engineers during the structural design and engineering phase of each home's production to meet or exceed the required loads and codes of the geographic area where the home is to be built, so no specifications on material thickness is given above. Nevertheless, in genereral, our structural components (i.e. loadbearing) will range from 12 ga. to 20 ga. and our non-structural components (i.e. interior wall studs) will normally be 22 ga.
STEEL ERECTION AND FRAMING SERVICES AND PRICES:
American Steel Frame Services, Inc. offers individual consumers, steel frame home distributors, and general contractors with qualified residential steel framing crews and services anywhere in the United States. We specialize in providing our customers with knowledgable residential steel framing crews to erect their home packages in a timely and efficient manner.
Besides erecting our own Quality Steel Frame Homes, we also erect and frame virtually any steel frame home system from virtually any steel frame home manufacturer anywhere in the United States. These range from stick-built and panelized steel framing systems to packages designed and produced individually to meet your individual needs. With the ability to frame all of these systems and structures, American Steel Frame Services, Inc. can frame virtually any steel frame home anywhere in the United States for you.
Normally we are hired directly by the homeowner or the homeowner's general contractor to perform most or all of the following services:
Why choose our crews to erect your steel frame home? Our steel framing crews build steel frame homes nationwide year round, whereas most wood framing crews are simply not experienced in building with steel or only have very limited experience with one or two types of steel frame homes. Furthermore, we only build steel frame homes which gives our customers the reassurance that their homes are being constructed with our experience, knowledge, and skill in steel framing. Our crews, vehicles, and equipment are fully insured and carry workman's compensation. Lastly, with every home we frame we offer full technical support throughout the construction of your home. This support ranges from answering questions your subcontractors may have to suggestions we have on how to reduce your overall construction cost. If you are planning on building a steel frame home, we strongly recommend that you have it framed by experienced residential steel framers and hope that you choose us to erect your home the right way.
Steel Erection And Framing Prices:
Because we not only erect/frame our own Quality Steel Frame Homes but also virtually any manufacturer's steel frame home packages, we offer two different steel erection and framing pricing formats listed below. 'Click' either of the two erection/options below to learn more about the pricing for that particular option:
STEEL ERECTION/FRAMING PRICING FOR OUR "QUALITY STEEL FRAME HOMES
STEEL ERECTION/FRAMING PRICING FOR OTHER MANUFACTUER'S STEEL FRAME HOMES
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