Help! Walls made of OSB problems

[Dick in Wisconsin]

cousins were busy cutting OSB to be hung on the walls.

I'm confused ... were these guys (1) your cousins, (2) cousins themselves, or (3) their parents were first cousins?

Does the unsupported OSB "stick out" or "bend into" the cavity between the studs?

If "stick out" ... get one of those fancy pocket hole machines, drill a pocket hole towards the stud, push the floating OSB "even" with the next piece, and put a long screw through the pocket hole into the stud to support the OSB.

If it "bends into" the cavity, put a screw with a big head into the OSB but leave the head stick out a ways. Grab the head of the screw with your fingers and pull it even with the supported OSB. Use the pocket hole machine to create a pocket hole and them screw the OSB to the stud.

Good luck!

 

[kelzamos]

until you hit a dozen nails with your saw blade....

^Cut the overlap off, pry back the edge of plywood from stud, remove nails.

 

[nmk_61802]

Anything you do other than remove and start over will be more work to make it look right. Just bite the bullet and remove now before it gets worse.

 

[niterider006]

Here is a pic. The boards as you can see bending into the cavity. And yes, I realize there are more than a few things wrong with this setup. They're not even hung in the pattern I wanted it to be.


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[JakeKohl]

The seams line up? save yourself the trouble and tear it down.

 

[dirttracker18]

Please tell us you're not going to tape and mud OSB...

I am going to go over the entire OSB with a Primer/Mud mix.[/QUOTE]

I can all but guarantee that those roofing nails will pop and ruin your fancy mud/primer finish. Roof nails have nothing to hold them in, they are barely suitable for shingles.

Take it down and use screws or ardox nails.

 

[niterider006]

Take it down and use screws or ardox nails.

I decided that I'm just going to hang drywall on top of this monstrosity. Think that will be OK? I'll keep the ardox nails in mind.

 

[sammm]

I decided that I'm just going to hang drywall on top of this monstrosity. Think that will be OK? I'll keep the ardox nails in mind.

I'd take the OSB down and start over before I did that. If you do take your route, be sure you know where the studs are before you start.

 

[Paultergeist]

leave the OSB up.

nail up some 1/4 osb over the top of what you have up there except this time put the seams on the studs.

heck, throw some P/L premium on it while your at it and you'll have a wall that will never come down.

Yes....I think so as well.

I keep hearing references to "tape and mud." Over OSB? If you are already planning on tape and mud, why not just install drywall over the existing OSB, making certain that the *added* drywall is securely screwed through the OSB into the studs? Then tape and mud to your heart's content. The OSB will provide a little extra thermal/acoustic insulation -- so at least it will not have been a total loss -- and you will have the look you were going for...?

 

[PugetDude]

I decided that I'm just going to hang drywall on top of this monstrosity. Think that will be OK? I'll keep the ardox nails in mind.

Do your cousins hang drywall, too?

 

[Ed Litsch]

I put OSB on my walls. It's too easy to put a hole in or gouge a drywall wall, especially in a working garage.

True. But OSB looks bad. And drywall is easy to repair. Plus it looks a lot nicer. People have been using drywall in their garage for years with no problems.

 

[niterider006]

Do you think 1 5/8 drywall nails is long enough to go through 1/2 drywall + 7/16 OSB + Stud?

 

[trbomax]

Tear it down and then drywall it. To do what you are proposeing you will have to put shims on every bare stud,and the top and bottom plate to make it come out flush.Get a 12" destruction blade for your sawzall and just run down between the osb and the studs.Presto,no nails left.

 

[niterider006]

Tear it down and then drywall it. To do what you are proposeing you will have to put shims on every bare stud,and the top and bottom plate to make it come out flush.Get a 12" destruction blade for your sawzall and just run down between the osb and the studs.Presto,no nails left.

I'm not sure I understand. The whole garage is covered in OSB. There are no bare studs to be had.

 

[G-force]

OSB...oh never again. FYI, the glue used in OSB is like sugar to rodents, at least the stuff used to build my shop in 1991. A few years ago I ripped it all out and it had been seriously damaged and infested. Never again.

 

[trbomax]

I'm not sure I understand. The whole garage is covered in OSB. There are no bare studs to be had.

OK,I understand. I was thinking they only did part of it before you stopped them. Sorry! If you do drywall over it,I'd lay the sheets down so that all of the osb joints are covered by the drywall,no joints in the same place (as in on top of one another).

 

[Old Moparz]

Sounds like you better put the house up for sale & move.

I like the idea of cutting the end of the OSB where it isn't nailed, then splicing in behind where the 2 sheets meet.

How many seams are not supported? It can't be every sheet?

 

[niterider006]

Sounds like you better put the house up for sale & move.

I like the idea of cutting the end of the OSB where it isn't nailed, then splicing in behind where the 2 sheets meet.

How many seams are not supported? It can't be every sheet?

It's about 7 or 8 seams. The problem is, if you take a look at the previous pics, they laid all the OSB down so that all seams run together. That's why I'm leaning towards 54" -12' drywall and laying them down horizontally on top of the OSB. I'll get a nice 9 ft wall with less seams and headaches. Now I just have to make sure to find those studs.

 

[PCO6]

We definitely need a picture of those cousins....

I hired my cousins once. It didn't work out very well.

 

[dirttracker18]

Do you think 1 5/8 drywall nails is long enough to go through 1/2 drywall + 7/16 OSB + Stud?

Do not use nails with drywall. Drywall screws only. Nails will pop down the road.

 

[Vettman]

While you had help, you should have had put up drywall. It looks a lot better than OSB and it's cheaper, too.

And won't burn like gasoline!

 

[NUTTSGT]

If they use roofing nails, the large head should make it easier to pull them out.

If the OSB can bow/bend inwards, I'm going to bet that your drywall will be cracking when it's finished.

Tear off the OSB and fix it right.

 

[Daniel Dudley]

Everything is nailed up really good with 3 inch roofing nails. !

Well, I hope you don't have any wiring in the walls...

 

[68rustang]

I think you guys are just feeding a troll. There is so much wrong about so much of this "mess."

Cousins did it, seams line up, missed the studs, 3" roofing nails from a gun, tape and mud OSB, mudding over mending plates, oil based primer mixed with mud, 1-5/8" screws....

 

[Harry Gerrard]

Drywall is too flimsy for a garage, you can't hang things from the walls w/o locating studs. Bump into it with a tool cart or wheel barrow,, big hole. I like my OSB and it looks good too

 

[dirttracker18]

And won't burn like gasoline!

I weld, grind and torch in my shop and have never, ever had my OSB walls catch fire.

Apparently you've never tried burning osb.

 

[PugetDude]

I think you guys are just feeding a troll. There is so much wrong about so much of this "mess."

Cousins did it, seams line up, missed the studs, 3" roofing nails from a gun, tape and mud OSB, mudding over mending plates, oil based primer mixed with mud, 1-5/8" screws....

Nope- we've seen an actual photo of the cousins...

 

[montero1dfw]

Use anchors like these. Put a thin washer on the screw and drill thru the middle of the seam. Countersink the screw slightly. A painter showed me the trick of mixing
drywall mud with paint or primer, works great.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...HKUfD-IYrA0gG2rYDICg&ved=0CE8Q9QEwBQ&dur=6896

or even better

http://www.a1components.com/BVModul...ed0ea6c6e052&gclid=CK6Zw62WgbgCFYVQ7AodVAcAWA

 

[FunkyfullWidth]

I'm curious why the op is so dead set on trying to escape doing this right. Are you really that lazy that you don't want to pop down a couple peices of wood? How big an area is this in? The previous owner of my house put osb walls up in the garage, none of the seams hit studs, I pulled em down replaced the damaged ones and cut them all to line up on the studs.

Bite the bullet and do this right. You'll feel more pride then just hacking it together. Or basically wasting all that wood and money by hacking drywall over it... Seriously? You've got to be kidding. You're going to end up spending far more time in the long run trying to hack together a solution than it would take to do it the right way.

 

[bighead51]

Cut flush with the studs on either side of the joint not on a stud, remove the offending OSB sister on some studs to what's there. Cut and nail or screw in the piece In place. Simple !

 

[DougMN]

This looks like the right tool for you to thank them with....

I think that would work if you don't have a burdizzo.

 

[paulrey27]

I think that would work if you don't have a burdizzo.

can't unsee that...

 

[NUTTSGT]

I weld, grind and torch in my shop and have never, ever had my OSB walls catch fire.

Apparently you've never tried burning osb.

Once OSB starts burning, it does burn good and hot. It is used as a fuel in live fire training. Drywall does have some fire protection though as it can be required by code. .. . . but, Murphy's law kicks in.

I can guarantee that more houses with drywall burn down everyday in the US than garages with OSB on their walls.



I have OSB on the walls of my garage.

 

[Falcon67]

True. But OSB looks bad. And drywall is easy to repair. Plus it looks a lot nicer. People have been using drywall in their garage for years with no problems.

I just bounced a 3000 lb race car's *** end off the back wall unloading it from the trailer. Oops. A serious enough lick that it straighted out the bumper a little. My walls are done with OSB - the car just bounced off. No repair needed. (to the car either). Try that with drywall.

To the OP - I would probably start drilling the heads off those nails and pulling the sheets off the wall, working one wall at a time. Drill off the head, then pry the sheet off the wall, then drive what's left of the nails home. Re-install with coarse thread deck screws. It's work, but it will save the sheets and a lot of $$$.