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Tips/Techniques Wall covering in garage shop.

Tips/Techniques
jcdammeyer

jcdammeyer

John
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What's an ideal wall covering in the shop. My two cement walls, which are like basement walls will have studs installed this summer. Once insulated and covered with vapour barrier I'm now wondering if I should just drywall or use chip board or plywood. And if plywood or chipboard how thick? And after painting won't it look tacky?

Suggestions welcome.
John
 
My shop walls are covered with 1/2" CD grade plywood. C side facing out. Primed and painted. Allows me to hang anything anywhere.
Lots of folks use OSB but in my experience plywood is better; much easier to paint and holds screws better.
 
OSB has its uses but generally is best under something else. Some shops use it as a backer for drywall as drywall has better fire resistance.
If you're not making sparks I'd use plywood, at least 1/2 inch. Shop walls you can't hang things on are kinda sad.
 
David said:
My shop walls are covered with 1/2" CD grade plywood. C side facing out. Primed and painted. Allows me to hang anything anywhere.
Lots of folks use OSB but in my experience plywood is better; much easier to paint and holds screws better.
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Plywood and paint in mine as well....
 
I have OSB in mine. Was there when I moved in, but I certainly love being able to screw stuff pretty much anywhere to the walls. If I were going from scratch with a clean slate I'd probably spring for 12mm/ 1/2" plywood, and paint it. Looks a bit more professional and finished, and I always find that the price difference for stuff like that is soon forgotten.

My dream shop would be metal siding for the lower half, and plywood for the upper. Keeps sparks and firebabies from being born, and still allows stuff to be hung anywhere. Pick the right colour for the siding, and it would hide a lot of grime associated with a welding/fab/machine shop.
 
My shop is basically a pole barn with insulation between exterior metal barn siding inside and out. Hanging stuff on the walls sucks.

A buddy put good one side plywood on the inside of his pole barn. Didn't bother painting it. It looks great and is extremely functional.

If I were building a new shop, it would have steel siding outside and good one side plywood inside.
 
Mine is a steel frame building with steel inside and out. Walls have 10 inches insulation. I strapped the inside with 2x4s horizontally to back the steel siding so as long as I can find a strap, I can hang stuff no problem
 
1/2” plywood for me, primed and roller painted. Never osb or drywall.

The lumber stores around here offer farmer grade or b-grade lifts for sale at good prices. As an example, I bought a lift (192 pieces) of 16’ 2x6 b-grade lumber for $1295. Yeah, it won’t pass an inspection but for sheds and lean tos on the acreage it is great. They offer plywood by the sheet (Windsor plywood )
 
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