Steel Frame Home FAQ?

1. Termite & Vermin Resistant?

We know the fact that homeowners spend lots of money each year for the treatment against termites for wood framed homes. Termites and other pests can't eat steel and can't chew through steel. Your steel frame home material package will help avoid a lot of the expense of addional pest control treatments.

2. Fire Safety / Resistance?

Properly constructed steel framed walls act as a one-hour fire rated wall if sheathed with 5/8" drywall. Our Galvanized steel framing offers protection from fires that are generated exteriorly and interiorly. The nature of steel does not allow spreading of fire. The major benefits: Offers sufficient time for evacuating family & loved ones and gives more time for fire fighters to save the remaining structure & its contents. Your main structures steel framing does not burn.

3. Recyclable?

All scrap steel is recyclable; all (Green).

4. Energy Saving With High Insulation Ratings?

Our steel frame home material packages offer 2" x 4" tube steel exterior walls which will allow standard insulation ratings up to R-30 for attics and exterior walls, produce quieter interiors, and higher comfort levels inside the home. You will save a good amount of money in the long run on your energy bills. The standard 4" thick walls with insulation will also reduce outside noises substantially.

5. Resale Value?

By delivering you a custom steel frame home material package, we believe that we delivered you a product that offers high resale value with lower maintenance cost.

6. May Offer Lower Insurance Costs?

Some insurance companies offer discounts on Home Owners Insurance Policies when the home is constructed with steel framing.  In most cases, even if your home catches on fire, your steel framing will not burn.

7. Inside Environment?

Our steel frame home material packages will provide you a vapor free environment. The Galvanized steel frame of your home is protected against rust, corrosion, and steel does not promote mold or mildew. Encapsulated Galvanized steel has a life expectancy of over 200 years (not warrantied for that time peroid).

8. Weather?

Our steel frame home material packages are much stronger than wood & much sturdier in any type of disasters such as Hurricanes, Tornados, Earthquakes, and Heavy Snows. Your steel framing is not only stronger but can help save you more money by reducing repair costs over the life of the home.  A steel frame home will not draw lightening any more than a wood frame home would; if your steel frame home is struck by lightening, the steel framing offers extra protection due to the entire frame work being grounded from the roof peak through the foundation.

9. From Your Own Home Plans?

MEI invites you to send your Engineered drawings & requirements in a PDF format, on a disk, or a hard copy of your drawings and we will send you a FREE NO OBLIGATION custom prefabricated steel frame home material packages quote that may help you build your "Dream Home" with stronger steel framing.

10. Larger Clear Spans?

Because of engineering design with steel components, our steel frame home material packages have greater flexibility. This allows us to design up to 30' "Clear Spans".  You can create wide spacious rooms without support columns in between or in the middle of a room; most of the time for less cost. Wood framed homes can not easily offer this type of flexibility due to the cost of laminate beams.

11. Perfect Alignment, Straight Walls, and Perfect Corners?

Most of our steel frame home material packages (pre-fabricated walls & trusses) are designed to allow constructing your home in less time and usually at less expense.  Depending on the number of crew members, the average time to frame a prefabricated single story 1,200 to 1,800 square foot home (from the top of the foundation) averages (7) seven to (10) ten days.  Steel does not wrap, buckle, split, or burn. The result is clear; you will get perfect aligned ceilings & walls with fewer separations of exterior materials over the life of your home.

12. Assembly?

With the help of engineering design in steel, we provide your steel frame home material package with steel tech screws for easier assembly.  If a homeowner is familure with using a magnetic bullet level, an electric screw gun, a ladder, and follows the step by step assembly instructions, you can assemble your new steel frame home material package; in most states under an Owner / Builder Building Permit.

13. Additional Family Safety?

You can offer your family even more safety and security by designing and constructing a Steel Frame Storm Shelter or Storm Safe Room within your new or existing home.  These storm shelters meet or exceed FEMA's "Near Absolute Protection" requirement with minimum wind loads of: 250 mph and live loads of: 200 pounds per square foot.  These Steel Frame Storm Shelters can also double as quickly accessed "Panic Rooms" for your family should the need arise.