Interior Walls, What to Use?

[Playwme]

One of us is doing our sums wrong cause I get half the number of sheets that you did for the ceiling and at $30 a sheet still don't get close to your $4000 total for beadboard.

Edit- I calculate 66 sheets total including the ceiling which at $30 a 4x8 sheet should be $1980.

 

[Scott65]

I used blue board on the ceiling with a skip trowel finish on the plaster- easy to pick up and do pretty well with a little practice. I opted for OSB on the walls and with a couple of coats of paint it looks great. I also sanded my corners and high spots on the seams to make it look smoother. A little bit of caulk at the ceiling joint and 1x6 deck boards for the baseboard and you have a great look.

 

[SLYDIT]

just remember with drywall.....

you dont have to be a good plasterer, just a good sander!!

Haha

 

[NUTTSGT]

I have OSB on my ceilings, caulked all the joints, 2 coats of Kilz (oil based) primer and a coat of Kilz 170 Pro-X paint. It's done, it works and nobody looks up.

 

[gnxtc2]

Went through the same issue with the interior walls.

Drywall ggod for a house garage but for a workshop, forget about it.

I went this route:
- Bottom 4' 1/2 plywood, 2 coats oil base Kilz, 1 coat Sherwin Williams oil base enamel.
- Top 8' corrugated white panels (metal roofing)

The drywall IS going to crack plus you have to maintain it. You have to sand and paint the drywall. If you don't paint it, it'll yellow and the it'll be dark and gloomy. The metal corrugated just wipes up if you get it dirty. The metal is maintanence free.

If your heart is stuck on drywall, atleast do 5/8 rock. But I would look into the corrugated metal.

Billy T.
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[TheEquineFencer]

Go ahead and drywall it. It's a shop, and you can do the taping yourself. Watch a video or two, it's not that hard to learn. You also get the benefit of some fire protection with drywall. Worst case, pay someone to do the taping of the drywall.

I second this. The last time my shop was built before it burned, I used OSB and painted it BEFORE I put it up. It will **** the paint up, buy it by the 5 gallon bucket, I used the cheapest barn paint from Lowe's. It looked decent. I'd go with the sheet rock, everything in here now is either Sheetrock or steel liner panels. BTW, OSB burns really good when it gets hot. I'd get a drill gun made for doing sheet rock or better yet, put an ad on CL, you might find some guys that'll do the job cheap on the side. Go hang out around a new construction site at lunch and do some asking around. In the corners if you do it yourself, you can "cheapout" and put corner molding to save time trying to finish the corners doing it yourself. Molding can cover a lot of the "rough" edges.

Drywall for the fire factor versus cost would be my first choice, then Metal panels, then OSB. OSB will be the cheapest with the ease of installation. Think about how you are going to mount the wall receptacles too.

 

[TheEquineFencer]

http://s642.photobucket.com/user/TheEquineFencer/library/Misc%20pics

Here's a some pictures of how I did my wall mounted receptacles. With a steel building, depending on how you walls are made, mine had a "trough" around where the girts attached. I ran a conduit around the top in 3/4 EMT and dropped down with BX cable, 12/2, used "snap-it" connectors and screwed the boxes to the girts. That way I didn't have a pipe running down and all those boxes showing. I thought it made for a cleaner look.

 

[WillyKJr]

34 x 30 x 9 with 5/8" Firecode sheet rock on ceiling and upper portion of walls with T111 on lower portion. Rent a sheet rock lift/hoist for the ceiling and do the job yourself. This was my first muddin' job and it came out great and I saved a bundle.

 

[GlenC]

Look at the impact resistant dry-wall!

 

[Olympus]

One of us is doing our sums wrong cause I get half the number of sheets that you did for the ceiling and at $30 a sheet still don't get close to your $4000 total for beadboard.

Edit- I calculate 66 sheets total including the ceiling which at $30 a 4x8 sheet should be $1980.

Looks like I did the math wrong. The ceiling was throwing me off. Thanks#