Concrete Slab Floor To Metal Stud Connection

If you re building a stud wall in a garage or basement you ll use metal tracks to attach the studs to the concrete.

Concrete slab floor to metal stud connection.

Simple how to video describing in detail on how to anchor metal studs into a concrete slab. Metal stud crete load bearing structural shear wall system has current testing and approvals from nationally recognized testing laboratories and conforms to building codes nationwide through icc icbo approval reports. Anchor bolts shall extend not less than 15 inches 381 mm into masonry or 7 inches 178 mm into concrete. Msc typical bond beam to section for floor or roof connection.

Today lumberyards stock metal studs alongside traditional wood studs and you may use them in residential construction. The precast concrete floor unit is used to span between supporting steel. It is estimated that 50 of multi storey steel framed buildings use precast concrete floors. By bison concrete products limited but the information presented is generic.

Check out our business page on facebook for more. If you need to cut dozens of metal studs and tracks quickly use a circular saw fitted with a toothless carborundum metal cutting blade 7 when cutting individual steel studs or tracks with a circular saw cut on the closed or web side and support the piece tightly on sawhorses. To cut individual steel studs and tracks use straight cut aviation snips photo 1. A standard metal stud comes in the same dimensions as its wood counterpart.