How many garages with osb interior?

[pointer80]

Hello all, Just wondering how many of the members have osb walls and or ceilings in there garage/shops? I would love to see pictures if you have them. Thanks a bunch.

 

[NUTTSGT]

I have OSB walls and ceiling in my garage. You can see pictures of it in my Garage Refurb thread, link in sig. I put OSB on the house garage walls but used metal ribbed siding on the ceiling. I believe there might be a few pictures of the house garage in the same thread also.

 

[kd3pc]

mine is also OSB, a lot of throw away small cuts from a builder I helped a few times.

no pics...though

 

[The Cobbler]

my previous shop ( another property, another life) was OSB, I painted it and caulked the joints . I was happy with it
This one I'm building will be something else. only because I have it. pics will follow

 

[icthruu74]

Mine is osb walls and drywall ceiling. Previous owners put up paneling like wainscoting too.

 

[DUSTIN@STI]

I did half my wall and ceiling in osb.

 

[gayler]

Mine is OSB walls and Sheetrock ceilings. Wish I would have OSBed the ceiling too.

 

[Crazyjake8493]

No pictures, but my walls are a mix of OSB and plywood, whatever I got free or cheap. I started with OSB, but 7 sheets of plywood were free, and 2 and 1/2 sheets blew out the back of a truck passing by, so those were free too!

I like that I can use screws and hang stuff just about anywhere on the OSB/plywood. I would never put drywall on garage walls, too easy to damage and/or mold from moisture. I didn't bother to paint the walls since I don't mind the wood look.

My ceilings are mostly foil-faced polyiso foam insulation, with a small section of drywall in the corner over the wood stove.

 

[58Yeoman]

My 24x40 is mostly osb. The only part that isn't is the ceiling above the double door stalls; the PO put up foil faced insulation board. I worked in receiving before retiring in '14. We received paper bags on pallets with a 52x48 sheet of osb on top so the pallets could be stacked. I had enough sheets to do the whole inside, my wife's 8x10 potting shed, the walls on our new 12x12 tool shed, and I still have about a dozen sheets left.

 

[Sasquatch912]

Would it be worth OSB everything or leave open to metal walls?

 

[fastbike02]

I have osb walls in my shop too, it was cheaper and little stronger than drywall

 

[58Yeoman]

You can hardly see my walls, but they match the ceiling.

 

[38Chevy454]

OSB walls, drywall ceiling; and all is painted white Kilz oil base. Caulked seams on OSB, mud and taped drywall seams.

 

[Orange65]

30' x 50' that the PO put OSB around the walls. I like it as it allows me to hang whatever I want wherever I want. I have not painted much of anything.

 

[bczygan]

UGLY!

Maybe functional, but still.....

 

[wes73]

30x40x10 full OSB walls and ceiling. I used a 2x8 PT as a baseboard then started up from there. All joints caulked and painted. Would not change it at all.

 

[nicholam77]

Not OSB, but plywood (completed recently). Thinking of painting it but not sure yet.

 

[fastbike02]

I mixed drywall mud into paint and rolled my walls, covered the seams and gave it a textured look similar to what you see in some houses. not as smooth as drywall but I don't have to worry about bumping it with an atv like I would drywall

 

[kiatech]

https://goo.gl/photos/WJcsmBwg9SMi8BYu9

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

I have a 13x28 shop adjacent to my 18x18 "two" car garage. The entire shop had pegboard in it when I moved in. It was in good condition but badly in need of freshening up. I painted it and ripped 1x2's out of old 2x4's i had to make strips to cover the butted ends of the pegboard that really weren't that uniform and in some cases kinda jagged. It cost almost nothing and it improve the appearance a lot:


The main garage itself I paneled 1-1/2 walls in OSB but because I had sheets left over from a temporary fence my homeowners insurance put up a few years ago after a freak windstorm blew down my concrete block wall. Yes, it was THAT strong!


The window was a dual paned freebie from Craigslist that had one of the outer panes broken. I just took out the broken pieces along the window frame and used it as is. My garage is detached and unheated so I didn't care.

This shot shows the OSB in the process of being painted. It'll hold an absolutely straight paint line if you know how.

 

[Dick in Wisconsin]

In our attached two car garage I went with Slatwall floor to ceiling and white ribbed steel from Menards on the ceiling. I think I used the middle grade of ribbed steel, which was a mistake. Too heavy, didn't need to be that heavy.

One the detached 1000sf race shop I went with one course of OSB, once course of Slatwall, and then OSB above the Slatwall. Below the first course of OSB is 1"x4" or 6" PVC trim. Above the top course of OSB is more PVC trim.

The OSB has two coats of Sherwin Williams oil based primer and two coats of white Sherwin Williams latex paint. The edges of the OSB were double prime red and double painted too. When the carpenters had to make cuts, they put primer on the fresh cuts. I painted the 4x8 OSB panels before they were put up. Lots of painting.

The shop has 6" walls. Then the windows and doors were trimmed with PVC. First time I'd ever used it. I like it. Window sills have a 2 or 3 degree pitch away from the window. Everything was then caulked with white caulk.

Really like the lightest gauge ribbed steel siding from Menards. First time the carpenters had ever used it, they really like working with it.

If I had it to do over again, I would probably gone with 3' of OSB on the bottom course, then the Slatwall, then the rise OSB. The bottom of the Slatwall could be a little lower.

 

[skipnay]

OSB walls and ceilings!!! Drywall upstairs though

 

[WickedMainer]

If you have an attached garage it would not be suggested to have osb on any shared surfaces with finished living space due to fire code unless you have proper fire rated barrier behind it, which is usually fire code compliant drywall. I don't like osb for the simple fact it's easy to get over confident in the holding capacity of screws when they aren't in studs. I have seen multiple people have freighted shelves come crashing down. Most people know better but just saying. Is it just me or has osb gone up tremendously in last couple years. Buy shiplap pine on one wall drywall on others. Looks real good and shiplap at least for me is cheap. Pine from guys with portable sawmills is wicked cheap. .35 a square foot cheap if you have the wood

 

[WOM5]

I don't have any pictures of it, but in our previous house I put OSB on the walls and cut strips from scrap 2x4's to cover the edges like described earlier. I primed it with some high-fill primer to help fill in some of the texture. Then I mixed up all the various white paint I had into a 5-gallon pail and painted the walls white - all latex. Wall shared with the house was drywall for fire rating and also painted white. Definitely liked the walls painted white - it brightened up the whole area

 

[ckyle29]

I've got OSB on my walls and BC plywood on the ceiling. Painted everything with two coats of Kilz and it looks great. But my walls are getting pretty covered up with signs, cabinets, hubcaps, tools etc.

 

[Notgrownup]

Half of mine done, painted white. Sorry, no pictures.

 

[LXCam]

My previous machine area within my commercial building I did it. Caulked and painted it looked fine and worked like a champ. I wouldn't hesitate to do it again.

 

[MScott]

No pics, but I have 3 walls covered with OSB, the third wall in my attached garage is OSB covered with 5/8 drywall as a fire break. Still not painted but will be eventually. The ceiling will be foil covered foam.

 

[pointer80]

As I say here often.
Ask your insurance.
Mine said I can have unfinished walls but if they are enclosed by interior walls that wall material has to be covered with drywall and mudded and taped or be drywall and mudded and taped. Maybe this is international code. A fire thing for sure. Drywall is a fire break, osb is not. Same with shiplap or decorative wood. But the drywall goes under it... you'll damn well have drywall somehow.

As usual someone will be here with great conjecture and counter about this.
Just make the call and ask. The call is free, it's five minutes, or you can really screw up by listening to the clueless(the clueless might be me).
Buy a vowel, make the call.

When I bought the place it had pegboard inset into the drywall. Open back on the pegboard.
I took it down. It was beautiful, uninsurable work. Drywall spliced in, pegboard is now offset on top of it with 1x1.
My comments are from experience not conjecture.

I did check with my local building inspector and he said it is fine to use osb on ceiling and walls. In my neck of the woods it is common practice to use osb in workshops. Some of the most reputable builders in this area use osb. One thing I guess I don't understand is my attached garage on my house is not yet finished and the wall studs and the exterior osb is exposed except for the house wall which is of course drywalled.

 

[Orionrising]

various picture of my osb sheethed divider wall in my build thread in signature.

 

[WickedMainer]

Not sure of where your neck of the woods is but in mine you wouldn't sell any policies if they said no to wood stoves. Insurance isn't the problem here, getting an occupancy permit is a little bit more tricky. The massholes seem to spread the regulation bug every time they buy a camp or house here.....you can split Maine in half, on the southern end you have northern Massachusetts on the northern end you have Maine. dont believe me look at maines election results... Insurance - they pay out for stupidity but call it an act of god if it's weather related.

 

[WickedMainer]

On that note check your policy and make sure your garage is classified right as in attached or detached. My bosses insurance labeled his detached garage attached and it cost him a lot more yearly. The insurance company even inspected the property. The garage got destroyed and they wouldn't cover it because he was insuring an attached garage, and no he didn't get refunded the thousands extra he had paid over the course of owning the house for the misclassification.

 

[LanjPerf]

Hello all, Just wondering how many of the members have osb walls and or ceilings in there garage/shops? I would love to see pictures if you have them. Thanks a bunch.

I did white metal ceiling and OSB walls. Few coats of paint later...and I'm content. I would do it the same again if I had to. OSB is more forgiving, functional, and easier to work with than drywall or metal. Also is quieter and I'd say slight insulation Rvalue advantage over metal (although I have no data to support).

I don't have any fully finished and moved in pics...but here's some at various stages:

 

[pointer80]

Your building inspector is not your insurance agent.
You completely misunderstood.
My building inspector says it's ok to have a wood stove.
My insurance said they would cancel me.
My building inspector doesn't care about proximity of a wood pile.
My insurance does.
My building inspector said osb was fine.
My insurance said it was not.
My building inspector said I could install my own heating system.
My insurance said I could not.
My building inspector does not care how far away a fire station is.
My insurance does.

Call your agent.
Fully vetted problems are not problems, unless you proceed against the truth.

I actually have a wood boiler and it is covered by my insurance and premium did not go up at all, also they never mentioned nothing about my wood pile either and they have did a inspection in the past. Like I said in my earlier post there are a lot of shops around here with osb and reputable builders are installing it so there must be a lot of uninsured workshops around Northern Michigan. I am not to concerned about it as it is well away from my house and attached garage.

 

[bucktruck]

I used OSB for the inside walls of my newly "rebuilt" detached 20 x 32 garage. I was going to sheetrock the whole thing after I insulated the walls (R16) and hung the OSB, but decided to save some money and time and just sand and paint. I used 2 coats of Sherwin Williams oil based primer, and two coats of crappy white latex. It's not perfect, but it's a garage.

A couple of pics, before and after: (same corner, different angle, crappy pics)

 

[WickedMainer]

May I ask why people wouldn't just use sip panels instead of buying a metal frame to then add insulation and then put osb on it? Just curious I have gone back and forth between timber frame with hammer trusses, sip, and metal. The sips were pretty close on price if insulating which is a must. It's 5 degrees out now as I type

 

[WickedMainer]

And for wood boilers my insurance doesn't care but did I mention regulations? Yup have to be on a continuous 5 acre parcel and hundreds of feet from neighbors, and it has to be new model. I was fine til my other neighbor also built right up against our boundary. Bet you can't guess where both neighbors are from..... luckily they are both best neighbors I could ask for.

 

[pointer80]

And for wood boilers my insurance doesn't care but did I mention regulations? Yup have to be on a continuous 5 acre parcel and hundreds of feet from neighbors, and it has to be new model. I was fine til my other neighbor also built right up against our boundary. Bet you can't guess where both neighbors are from..... luckily they are both best neighbors I could ask for.

They have gotten quite touchy on the outdoor boilers, I am on 10 acres and no close neighbors. I have had my wood boiler for over 10 years now so I am grandfathered in I assume.

 

[finn]

The garage at the house has an unpainted osb ceiling in the 30x32' parking portion. I'd doesn't reflect light well, and I'll eventually cover it with tin to match the working section.

My shop has painted walls on the lower 8' of the walls and tin.on the upper 10' and ceiling. The osb is useful for hanging things on, but impossible to keep clean. I'll either try mudding it for a smother, washable surface or eventually cover it with tin.

 

[Jamie V]