At first, you’ll find framing with steel studs to be slower than with wood studs ... perimeter walls in existing basements (1-5/8 in. wide) to load-bearing exterior walls (up to 5-1/2 in. wide).

Wall studs are the vertical beams in your wall framing that the drywall of interior walls and the wood sheets of exterior walls attach ... s magnetometer to find metal fasteners such as nails ...