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Tips/Techniques Wall covering in garage shop.

Tips/Techniques
Dan Dubeau said:
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.
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My last garage/shop i drywalled and finished nicely and painted it white. As my garage activities gradually morphed into more hobby work than strictly garage/vehicle storage I began wishing for something a bit more durable than drywall, at least for the bottom 4 ft.
Built a new shop and in this one I put 3/4" plywood painted with grey floor paint paint on the bottom 8ft. The next 4ft feet and the ceiling is white metal. I am really happy with it. The plywood is durable and allow unlimited hanging for stuff and the white ceiling and upper walls is a great light reflector.
 
jcdammeyer said:
1/2" drywall is $19.95 per sheet and 1/2" plywood (not the best looking) is $40 per sheet at Rona.
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My city shop is 1/2" ply up to about 5', the drywall, exactly for this reason. 5' instead of 4' because my concrete kerb at the bottom is exposed and almost 12".
My country shop has 3/4" sheet standing upright fastened to the wall girts. 1/2" was too flimsy to span the two girts comfortably, and the cost difference was dominated by the shipping-by-barge expense.
 
I just used 3/8 plywood on my garage. You could use plywood or partical board on the lower 4 feet then drywall over it.
 
1/2" ply over on top of 1" foamboard on studs. I like ply because it's easier to mount shelves anywhere and its much more secure. The foamboard adds insulation and it acts as a vapor barrier too. I used 1" foil backed polyisocyanurate boards which had the secondary effect of creating a fairly effective Faraday cage inside the shed.
 
Arbutus said:
which had the secondary effect of creating a fairly effective Faraday cage inside the shed.
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So my wife wouldn't be able to find me, call me, or know I snuck out to my shop?

Just kidding. My current shop is double layers of steel. She finds me anyway cuz I have wifi in there.....
 
Arbutus said:
which had the secondary effect of creating a fairly effective Faraday cage inside the shed.
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Is there a reason you need a faraday cage...? In my head I'm thinking of the pictures of Nikola Tesla and his High Voltage experiments...

Though minimizing Cell Phone distractions might be a good reason too.
 
15/32 (12mm) OSB for me. Two coats of semi-gloss white makes it look real nice. Sort of like some of those old-school stucco jobs. Love being able to put screws in wherever needed. I HATE drywall and would never put it in a shop. I don't even like it in the house.
 
One thing I considered but never did was cut the panels down and put say a 8 to 10 inch strip going around the garage just in case I needed more electrical outlets/voltage without having to take the panels off.
 
jcdammeyer said:
1/2" drywall is $19.95 per sheet and 1/2" plywood (not the best looking) is $40 per sheet at Rona.
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I've been thinking about wall finishing alternatives too. The price of plywood wow $40 a sheet. The price of drywall even wow at $20/sheet. and then the labour to do a good tape/mud finish? and paint? So looking at alternatives I came up with this:

I bought some 3/8" OSB recently from Timber Town (Canadian) it was $18.10 a sheet. I was thinking to mount it vertically, smooth side out, and do some brad nailed board/batton vertical risers over the joints and screws maybe 1 by 2 or 1 by 4. I think use MDF risers as the edges will paint ok, better than OSB or plywood. Then spray it with primer/ and paint with a compressed air powered sprayer. Have to mask/tarp and tape too though. There are various other kinds of sprayers I know nothing about - are any of them less messy?

Or instead perhaps put up the sheets, paint roller the walls, apply the battons, then roller/brush the battons? Anybody done that? How much work was it in the end? Random pics from https://interiorova.com/board-and-batten-interior-wall/ and pinterest below.

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Janger said:
I've been thinking about wall finishing alternatives too. The price of plywood wow $40 a sheet. The price of drywall even wow at $20/sheet. and then the labour to do a good tape/mud finish? and paint? So looking at alternatives I came up with this:

I bought some 3/8" OSB recently from Timber Town (Canadian) it was $18.10 a sheet. I was thinking to mount it vertically, smooth side out, and do some brad nailed board/batton vertical risers over the joints and screws maybe 1 by 2 or 1 by 4. I think use MDF risers as the edges will paint ok, better than OSB or plywood. Then spray it with primer/ and paint with a compressed air powered sprayer. Have to mask/tarp and tape too though. There are various other kinds of sprayers I know nothing about - are any of them less messy?

Or instead perhaps put up the sheets, paint roller the walls, apply the battons, then roller/brush the battons? Anybody done that? How much work was it in the end? Random pics from https://interiorova.com/board-and-batten-interior-wall/ and pinterest below.

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Those look nice.

I don't have an issue with drywall. As long as you know where the studs are most things can be mounted in such a way that the drywall doesn't interfere. And then there's no chance of running holes into the vapour barrier.

My labour is pretty well free now. But true the mud does cost.
 
I tore a hole in the wall to do some plumbing repairs and had to patch it up. I watched a couple YouTube vids, bought the tools and went at .Almost no sanding. You would never know, which I found very surprising.

I have the standard 5/8" drywall. Even with using a stud finder, my welded steel supports dig in. I have a lot of weight on those shelves.
 
Janger said:
I've been thinking about wall finishing alternatives too. The price of plywood wow $40 a sheet. The price of drywall even wow at $20/sheet. and then the labour to do a good tape/mud finish? and paint? So looking at alternatives I came up with this:

I bought some 3/8" OSB recently from Timber Town (Canadian) it was $18.10 a sheet. I was thinking to mount it vertically, smooth side out, and do some brad nailed board/batton vertical risers over the joints and screws maybe 1 by 2 or 1 by 4. I think use MDF risers as the edges will paint ok, better than OSB or plywood. Then spray it with primer/ and paint with a compressed air powered sprayer. Have to mask/tarp and tape too though. There are various other kinds of sprayers I know nothing about - are any of them less messy?

Or instead perhaps put up the sheets, paint roller the walls, apply the battons, then roller/brush the battons? Anybody done that? How much work was it in the end? Random pics from https://interiorova.com/board-and-batten-interior-wall/ and pinterest below.

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I have HVLP, LVLP guns and two airless sprayers; a Graco Truecoat 360 two speed and a Titan 410. In order of most to least overspray:
Graco Truecoat - works well but the small paint reservoir is a PITA
Titan 410 - works incredible but I only use it for big jobs like a whole room or more. Cleaning the machine is a a pain.
HVLP - cheap Vaper branded gun from KMS. Works very well. Will spray latex with a 2.0 tip and needle. The high pressure means lots of overspray. Easy clean up with latex paint. Oil is only slightly more of a pain.
LVLP - Aeropro R500 gun, tips from 1.4 to 1.7. I'd like a 2.0 as I have to thin latex a lot to spray with the 1.7 tip and needle. But there's definitey less overspray. It's my favorite gun.
 
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