What? Garage shop wall paneling after insulation

[Tom.Trout]

The shop is getting very cold, -12 this week. I am thinking of insulating and then paneling over the insulation but with what.

What are your shop walls paneled with???

[Popeye]

I'd go with 1/2" plywood or siding if I were doing a new shop. solid and you don't have to worry about finding studs to hang all the stuff you know you're gonna want to hang on the walls. Pat

[LarryG]

Anything but gypsum board, basically.

Plywood, OSB, pegboard, cheap prefinished paneling, 1x6s (especially if they're T&G: that'd make a wonderful shop wall) ... whatever fits your budget. At Pat says you ideally want something solid enough to allow you to hang stuff anywhere, not just at studs. But if you can't afford that you still want something durable enough to stand up to the conditions it will encounter in a shop.

You should probably check your local codes to make sure gypsum board isn't required. With a fully detached garage it probably will not be, unless the building is unusually close to a property line.

[Bulkley]

How are you going to insulate those garage doors?

[Tom Miller]

In another similar thread, someone mentioned how plywood can be taken down a lot easier than gypsum when you need to rewire, etc.

Regards,
Tom
p.s. Closing those garage doors was a step in the right direction!

[sacherjj]

Other than making sure the garage door makes a complete seal, I'm looking at this for insulation on my garage door:
http://insul.net/prod_astrofoil_all.html

On of my GF's family members used this and had the garage converted into an overflow room for Thanksgiving. It did a really good job with insulating the door.

[Bulkley]

Good idea, Joe. If one of those doors is not used, I'd replace it with a stud wall and insulate it properly. Or, put up a "temporary" plug that could be removed when necessary.

[Tom.Trout]

I am planning on just hanging an insulated blanket in front of them. I need to be able to open them to get big stuff in and out of the shop.

quote:Originally posted by Bulkley

Good idea, Joe. If one of those doors is not used, I'd replace it with a stud wall and insulate it properly. Or, put up a "temporary" plug that could be removed when necessary.

[dlminehart]

I used 1/2" OSB, would use plywood (maybe only 1/2") if doing it again (but I only needed 5 sheets). Used drywall screws to hang it, and was glad I did, as I had to pull a panel off in order to do some wiring changes. I painted my walls eggshell (washable) white, and the whole room is so much brighter than when it was just raw wood.

[Wood_workur]

plywood would work. I would draw/paint some sort of indicater of where the studs are, or leave the screwheade showing, and unpainted, so when you go to hand stuff on the wall, you know where thw studs are.

[monte]

I used 1/4" OSB on my walls.

[bigfoot15]

I am in the middle of putting 7/16" OSB on the walls and found a good deal on 4x6 sheets of 3/8" thick that I should be able to one-man into place on the ceiling. ..Being 6-5 is sometimes useful.
WOOD WORKUR..Good idea about marking the studs when painting. I'll have to remember that next summer.

[Jim-Iowa]

Anything would probably do. My garage was insulated and has that phoney pecan looking panelling on it when I bought this place.
Were I doing it I would use something a little more substatial.
In a perfect world, I really like the looks of pine beadboard finished natural. That may be just a pipe dream?
However plywood or OSB board will make a fine wall that you can hang anything on. The only drawback to OSB is the irregular surface, is kind of a bear to paint and seems to drink it up.
But a deep knap roller can get it pretty good.

[Tom.Trout]

I actually got a price on pine bead board it was about $21 a sheet. The cheapest covering I have seen is really cheap paneling at about $12 per sheet, plywood is somewhere in between.

Yes the idea of 1/2 inch plywood sure seems substantial but I am leaning toward the pine bead board for looks. I am really only talking about say 17 sheets so the difference may only be about $150.

quote:Originally posted by Jim-Iowa

Anything would probably do. My garage was insulated and has that phoney pecan looking panelling on it when I bought this place.
Were I doing it I would use something a little more substatial.
In a perfect world, I really like the looks of pine beadboard finished natural. That may be just a pipe dream?
However plywood or OSB board will make a fine wall that you can hang anything on. The only drawback to OSB is the irregular surface, is kind of a bear to paint and seems to drink it up.
But a deep knap roller can get it pretty good.

[doogus]

I know that some say you should not use drywall in the shop. That said and me being the cheap guy I am the absolute best thing I found to put on the wall of my garage was broken sheets of drywall I got at HD for free.

At my local HD they put the broken sheets on a cart and let you have them for free if you ask (the local Lowes will sell damage drywall to you for 52 cents per piece). Some are broken in 1/2 and others only have a damaged corner.

You don't get the "even look" of full sheets when you hang it and some are green board and others whiteboard. But it is free and it is a shop so I can live with it. It may take a few weeks to get enough material but I did my whole 20 x 24 garage this way. Only cost for me was the drywall screws (and the insulation).