I Cannot remember exactly when I first met Eddie from Ezisteel but it may have been through one of our builders. Over the last few years we have had dealings with Ezisteel nothing too large but Eddie had impressed me with his general knowledge of the building industry, and building code, but above all his dedication to his customers, which ultimately leads to a successful business.
Carmen whom I have just met recently and along with Eddie are a great team, so Ezisteel were the obvious choice when it came to all the steel framing for our new home.
All the framing arrived on site in Te Puna from the factory in Taupo and everything went like clockwork. My builder and myself started erecting the steel framing over the next few days, I was impressed with how easy the framing was to work with, lighter stronger and straighter. I had worked with timber a lot in the past so the steel was a pleasure to work with, gone are the days of constantly sighting the studs to make sure they are straight, over the summer there was no stress worrying about the framing shrinking and bending or moisture content , the list goes on.
Initially it only took us half a day to get most of the ground floor framing complete, then assembling the Steel mezz floor ready to crane up.
The first floor went up with the same ease and fitted like a glove , next was the exciting part of craning up the roof panels which were all prefabricated by Ezisteel , this certainly made life easier as all we had to do was guide them into place and temporarily fix.
In the engineers opinion Ezisteel’s framing is a superior product especially over timber , which was interesting to hear and there is a huge list of advantages.
I was once a little afraid of steel framing as traditionally timber has been used , like how do I nail nogs in , well no problem , I purchased a steel framing nail gun, which I didn’t know existed , also a finishing gun ,now no problem !!
I could go on but generally speaking you always expect some problems , that’s just the nature of the building industry , but this job not one , and if there had have been , I know Ezisteel stand by their product .
Many , many thanks to Ezisteel and their team for making our build easier.