Help: Garage Drywalling & Insulation - Materials/Labor Estimation???

[tenorplayer23]

Anybody have recent experience with paying for garage drywalling & insulation? Have looked at on-line estimators, but there all over the place.....so, thought I'd do some benchmarking here as well as, "guestimating" my own.

Have a 3-car garage (figure 24' x 36' or so). One wall is the fire barrier with the house/drywalled, insulated obviously & primed. The balance is unfinished, 2" x 4" studded walls, 1 large garage door and one single car garage door. Wall height is 9'. Ceiling will remain unfinished for now.

I desire insulation (assume fiberglass bats w/vapor barrier) & drywalling, plus basic tape/finishing for primer coat (primer coat included). Final painting to be done later.

What should I use as the approx. cost per sq. ft. (or "sheet"....or whatever metric) for MATERIALS & INSTALLATION?? One current estimate is ~$1300 total, including trimming out one window, plus installing 3 more electrical outlets.

Any estimates/metrics.........either local or otherwise??

Thanks in advance.

See ya.

PS - Any better material choices besides drywall........I've seen plastic/laminate surfaces grooved for shelves/cabinet attachment, et.al. Not sure of the brand names......any novel & recent experiences you'd like to comment on?

 

[tenorplayer23]

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See ya.

 

[porschedude996TT]

If you buy the drywall yourself you could save a bunch. The drywall supplier will deliver for a price and then you can hire a crew for a side job. They get somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 cents a square foot to hang and the same to tape and mud. Texture is another crew. Sometimes the insulation will cost you less to have a pro install than you can buy yourself.

When I had my shop done, 1200 sq ft, and I had quotes for the drywall from $3500 to $5500 for the same job. I made an information sheet of what I wanted and walked down the job with each contractor. The insulation ranged from $2000 to $1300 and I figured that I could have done it for $1100 or $1200. So rather than getting fiberglass in every pore of my skin, I had it done for $100 premium.

 

[tenorplayer23]

Thx. for the feedback. Just to clarify though (and the labor rates are likely to be different given the geographies):

> Your shop is 1200 sq.ft. (is that the shop size or amount of drywall being down?

> I eyeballed the sheetrock needed & figured my space requires "very roughly" 17 sheets of 4' x 10' drywall (hung vertically) to finish off the one garage wide wall, one short wall & finish the side with the doors. The ceiling isn't being done right now. That's in the neighborhood of 700 sq.ft. of material.

> Structure is 2" x 4" studs, insulation would be R13 bats. One window needs to be trimmed out & a few extra outlets put in. Plus they would do the mud and prime it (at least one coat).

He wants $700 to install it all, we can go together to Home Depot and buy what is needed to complete the job, material-wise. He'll deliver it, in this price. He figured ~$650 for materials, although I think that's high, based on again, swagging the cost per sheet/roll of sheetrock & Owens Corning insulation. (Maybe closer to ~4$400-450 or so)

In any case, the total install would be maybe $1 sq.ft. including the extras. Materials cost obviously varying, so figure another $0.70/sq.ft. for a total of $1.70/sq.ft. total install (materials & labor).

Does that sound about right???? Or, is it way off. Looking at your estimate (although not doing the ceiling now)...............it looks high, labor-wise.....but, maybe not considering all the other details.

Would appreciate your feedback and others insight.

Thx. in advance.

See ya

PS - Go Yankees..............if anybody else is watching the series on FOX

If you buy the drywall yourself you could save a bunch. The drywall supplier will deliver for a price and then you can hire a crew for a side job. They get somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 cents a square foot to hang and the same to tape and mud. Texture is another crew. Sometimes the insulation will cost you less to have a pro install than you can buy yourself.

When I had my shop done, 1200 sq ft, and I had quotes for the drywall from $3500 to $5500 for the same job. I made an information sheet of what I wanted and walked down the job with each contractor. The insulation ranged from $2000 to $1300 and I figured that I could have done it for $1100 or $1200. So rather than getting fiberglass in every pore of my skin, I had it done for $100 premium.

 

[AP300C]

I have a 24 x 22 garage with one wall finished as a firewall. To drywall only (no insulation) the remaining two walls plus finish the fire wall for paint was going to cost be anywhere from $1000 - $1400.

Way too rich for my taste when I figured $100 or so in materials.

Good luck!

 

[carguykeith]

Can you buy 4x10 sheets all I've ever worked with was 4x8's and 4x12's?

Also as a good rule of thumb figure multiply the material price for each labor activite, so 2x the price to hang it, 3x the price to fire tape it, 4x the price to finish cote it, 5x the price to texture and paint. Well at least up here, labor rates will vary...

 

[scottybaccus]

Prices seem about right, but I have to say, this is a perfect DIY job. It's easy to work with drywall, mud and texture. Finishing around windows is very straight-forward. You can rent a drywall jack to do ceilings.

Simple order of operations, Ceilings, upper walls, lower walls, windows, mud, sand, mud, sand, mud some more, sand some more, splatter gun!