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Related Party Transactions
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions
Related Party Transactions
 
The Company paid an airplane charter company standard hourly rates when an airplane was hired for use by Thomas J. Fitzmeyers, its former Chairman and former Chief Executive Officer, who is now the Company's Vice Chairman, for travel between his home and Company offices or by him and other Company employees in travel on business. For the year ended December 31, 2012, the total cost to the Company for this and other airplanes that were used was $0.5 million. Included in this amount for the year ended December 31, 2012, was $20 thousand paid to Mr. Fitzmeyers for compensation. The independent members of the Board unanimously approved this arrangement. The Company computed the compensation cost of the use of airplanes using the Standard Industrial Fare Level (“SIFL”) tables prescribed under applicable Internal Revenue Service regulations. Beginning in 2013, the Company no longer hires an airplane for Mr. Fitzmeyers, but will reimburse him for the cost of his travel based on commercial flight rates to and from its offices or when he travels on Company business.
 
In March 2013, the Company extended its lease on a property in Addison, Illinois, which is co-owned by Gerald Hagel, a vice president of Simpson Strong-Tie since March 2007. The extension is for an additional five years through 2018. The Company paid $0.3 million in 2013 to lease the property from Mr. Hagel and his wife, Susan Hagel, a former employee of Simpson Strong-Tie.
 
In December 2009, the Company made a loan of $0.7 million to an entity related to Keymark. The loan bore interest at an annual rate of 5.5%. The $0.7 million loan was repaid in January 2013.