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Originally Posted by Schumi View Post
I would think any modern garage that large would be using steel. I don't understand why you would build something so large with stick walls and trusses. The truss roof alone negates using any of that roof space for anything but storage.
Exactly, i don't understand why there is so much reliance on wood construction in the US.
Industrial steel construction is so much more easy and faster to build, more options in design, much stronger and durable.
Probably cheaper as well.

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