Mild steel name certainly is not foreign in your hearing. This material is widely used as roof frame houses, offices and other buildings. Observations conducted last year showed that not less than 90 percent of the housing project being built at that time using mild steel for roof truss.
Examples of the use of lightweight steel roof truss apart as the latter began to be easily found is used as the cover carport. Physical form in the form of bars makes it easy to be adopted to create similar forms pergola or other forms. The design can dikreasikan, to be combined with various types of roof coverings.
"Mild steel has proven robust and resistant to rust. Therefore, I use mild steel profiles which are commonly used as a carport roof to cover my house for durability and look different than the existing carport design," said Poltak Hutasoit, who recently It uses mild steel as a material in order to cover his carport housing Cikas Park, Bekasi.
Profile of a solid mild steel but easy to set up allows the owner designed the carport of his house according to taste. Curved wall is another example of the design of the carport. Material walls using C7575 and Trimdek Crimp Curve (s), while material from Lysaght roof made curved.
More economical
In addition to solid, stainless, mild steel materials turned out to be cheaper than using other materials, such as iron or steel round hollow. "Before using mild steel, I have surveyed the cost of the carport when using the iron and steel circular hollow. It turns out using mild steel is much cheaper than both materials," added Hutasoit.
For information, according to Hutasoit, carport cover the cost of making use hollow steel between Rp 300,000 and Rp 400,000 per square meter, while for the cover carport area of 20 per square meter, Hutasoit only the cost (total), USD 4.8 million. This means that the cost per square meter is only Rp 240,000. Such costs include mild steel material, polycarbonate roof covering 1.2 cm thick, and the cost of labor (carpenters).
Easy installation
Not only that. Creating the framework cover carport using mild steel is also not difficult. Hutasoit admitted that to build a carport cover its ceramic floors, it only takes 3 days to 2 workers per day.
"Manufacturing process is not difficult. What is important there should be design drawings and size. Tukang just need to cut the steel bars according to the size shown on the pictures, and merangkainya into a frame carport cover using special screws (screw)," added Hutasoit.
Carpenters used by carpenters Hutasoit also just ordinary, not the builders who have special skills. So is a tool used, nothing special. To cut steel bars, for example, used the ordinary hacksaw.
Mild steel Ecosteel TM
Then the question is: what kind of mild steel can be used for various functions? According to Agung, mild steel profiles commonly used for roof truss can be used. One type of mild steel is now available in the market for various types of applications are Ecosteel TM.
Mild steel production TM Ecosteel PT BlueScope Lysaght Indonesia possess the same profile as that used for the roof truss. The thickness is generally 0.7 mm (BMT). Per stem length 4 m. Currently, a versatile lightweight steel Ecosteel TM can be obtained through BlueScope Lysaght wholeseller network throughout Indonesia.
