Originally Posted by
Randy Henry
I just completed putting the metal on the inside of my shop. Though my construction is not post-built, it is stick built with 2x6's on 24" centers. On the inside, I used 1x4's for perts, nailed to the 2x6's, for the metal to screw the tin to. I used a different color up to the windows (light gray), then bright white up from there. It made cutting the tin around the windows much easier and also brought some color into the shop. If you use 2x6's horizontally, I would assume you will be screwing the tin into the small 1 1/2" edge. That makes it a lot harder to screw the conduit boxes, etc. to.