Pole barn interior wall questions

[Calhouncm]

Hello,

I recently had my pole barn constructed and am I am focused on next steps. It’s a 36x48x13 with 2 10x10 overhead doors on the 36’ end. I’ve been reading and trying to decide between steel for my interior walls vs plywood. It’s a hobby shop for me, I do expect to be doing some metal grinding, cutting, and welding so the steel is appealing.

Does anyone have any likes/dislikes to using steel for the inside walls they can share?

If I use metal can I have studs at 24” or is that too far apart?

Thank you




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[Ron_J]

I'm just about done with the inside of mine and went with 4' steel on the bottom and plywood on top.

 

[Augus7us]

Wow Ron that is exactly what i have planned except drywall instead of plywood. What did you use on top of the wainscoting where it transitions to plywood?

OP I'm using drywall and put studs at 24"o/c. They are not structural walls.

 

[ScaldedDog]

Our new to us home came with 1500sf Morton building with metal interior walls. I'm working with it, but would never have chosen it, and part of me hates it. It's an expensive pain to hang things on, and all the previous owner's screw holes are in the walls forever. Mine is just hung on the girts, with no additional framing. If you are framing, anyway, I'd certainly go with something else.

My favorite interior, that I had in my stick built attached garage in our previous place, is drywall over OSB.

Mark

 

[nadogail]

Drywall and OSB both have their pluses and minuses. Perhaps it's time for a comparison study?

 

[Ron_J]

Wow Ron that is exactly what i have planned except drywall instead of plywood. What did you use on top of the wainscoting where it transitions to plywood?

OP I'm using drywall and put studs at 24"o/c. They are not structural walls.

I used "double angle" so the metal siding supplier called it.

Worked nice. It is sturdy enought to hold the plywood as i was putting it up.

 

[bjcouche]

I have steel "liner panel" on the walls and ceiling of my entire shop. I have concrete walls the first 4' to 8' so attaching stuff to the metal hasn't been an issue. If you plan to be mounting and moving a lot of stuff to your walls I would go with something else. I walled off a section of my shop building a bathroom. For the bathroom interior walls I used drywall. For the exterior walls (still inside the shop) I used T1-11. The T1-11 is usually for exterior use but I like it for inside as well. It's tongue and groove so you don't see the seams, looks good and is strong for screwing things to the wall directly as you don't need drywall anchors.