http://ownerbuilderadvice.com/steel-frame-vs-timber-frame/ Providing Owner Builders with Kit Home Supplies, Systems and Services throughout NSW, QLD and Victoria. Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:41:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://ownerbuilderadvice.com/steel-frame-vs-timber-frame/comment-page-1/#comment-104 ecochartruce Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:38:59 +0000 http://ownerbuilderadvice.com/?p=393#comment-104 If your website is supposed to be unbiased why then, do you choose to only show negative sides to steel. After all the timber grown here in this country is not native, not natural forest. Our native countryside would have had to be cleared to grow the pine plantations used in timber construction and yes both timber and steel are then processed. Steel is 100% recyclable, costs less to transport, is fire retardant, is made from 20-30% recycled material and is easier to manage onsite. It costs less time for trades wiring and plumbing and the roof and flooring is 100% guaranteed dead straight due to no warping, splitting or bending as timber can do. If your website is supposed to be unbiased why then, do you choose to only show negative sides to steel.
After all the timber grown here in this country is not native, not natural forest. Our native countryside would have had to be cleared to grow the pine plantations used in timber construction and yes both timber and steel are then processed.
Steel is 100% recyclable, costs less to transport, is fire retardant, is made from 20-30% recycled material and is easier to manage onsite. It costs less time for trades wiring and plumbing and the roof and flooring is 100% guaranteed dead straight due to no warping, splitting or bending as timber can do.

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