I worked for a large builder for over 26 years. During the mid 90's when there was a huge lumber shortage, the owners approached me to ask if I would consider building one of our homes out of steel. It was in January when we started. They did not want to spend the money on hiring an outside contractor to do it. They gave me one of our real good guys and two helpers. It took us 6 weeks just to get it to the the start of the roof. I told my boss ,Iam NOT going to attempt to do the steel roof in the weather conditions at that time and told him I am going to double plate the walls and get our wood trusses in to finish. He agreed. when I asked why he wanted to do this in this kind of weather, he said he needed to know if it could be done year round. It was a very cold winter that year, with lots of ice and snow. I still have nightmares about it (LOL).
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