New ldeq in Steel ond Fir Plywood Flooring

Deqler Cuts[u-Re-Go Flooring Applicorion Time By fhree-Fourths

A merger of steel and fir plywood for the flooring system in a Lu-Re-Co home at Batesville, Indiana, resulted in an application time that is 75/o faster than conventional I-u-Re-Co floor construction. Harold W. Steinkamp, a Batesville dealer, has come uD with a combination steel Tunior I Beam and fir plywood flboring system that cuts 56 man hours off the normal construction time. The success of this merger of steel and fir plywood for floor construction is borne out by the fact that Steinkamp figures he saved $140.00 on his first try with the new system.

Steinkamp & Company has a three-pronged operation in Batesville. The company manufactures concrete blocks, operates

TWX: VN2299 a retail lumber yard and utilizes the Lu-Re-Co system of home erection. Steinkamp has been using the Lu-Re-Co system for 2f years. After figuring comparative costs for some time, he decided to try a new system of thick panels of fir plywood over steel beams.

The plywood, is 2.4.t, the lr/s inch thick panel which functions as a combination subflooring and underlayment over supports on 48-inch centers. The steel Junior Beams ate 24-f.eet long and S-inches high.

Sleinkamp's first use of the steel and plywood floor arrangement was in November on a two-bedroom, 960 square foot home in Batesville. Between 7 :30 and 1 1 :15 a.m., five carpenters finished a complete flooring system with the plywood panels applied over the steel Junior Beams. The beams were nine steel Junior I Beams 24-leet long which were framed into pockets

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