I was also surprised to discover metal studs when I moved into my new home. So I started driving around inspecting homes under construction. Some had all wood studs, some had all metal, and others had half & half. So I figure The Villages must have a pretty sophisticated algorithm for calculating which stud type is best depending on the model home, and the current cost of wood and steel. Whatever. Use sheet metal screws for a steel stud and wood screws for wood, and plastic screw-in anchors for in between. No big deal. What bothered me about steel studs was the havoc they can play with your home Wi-Fi. I got terrible speeds in rooms adjacent to my router, had to go to a booster router, and was told by the Spectrum installer “Yeah, we get a lot of these problems here in The Villages”.
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