OSB vs sheet rock for garage walls.
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This is worse advice than your post in the radar detector thread!
I guess code has changed to only 1/2" rock for garages, typically it's 5/8" sheet rock for fire protection.
Think about all the flammables, vehicles, hot work (welding, grinding, torching) that goes on in a shop.
If you've ever seen a garage burn, you'd kick yourself for using plywood or osb on the walls.
Our attached garage burned....hard. It was blazin before anyone woke up + 10min moer for the fire dept to get there. If the walls were osb, the house would have gone up too. FD figured the fire was burning about 30 min before they started getting water on it and it was just starting to get into the attic before it was extinguished.
Don't use wood for your walls in the garage unless it's not attached and you don't care if it burns quick.
If you'er looking for water resistance, sheet it with densglass, but that costs more than sheetrock.
Funny, considering i've probably hung more OSB and drywall in the last few years then you have in your whole life, bud. I gaurentee I know more when it comes to building code then you. It is common sense you need drywall as a fire barrier to your house if the garage is attached, and if you want to get technical many places you need fireguard drywall. If your garage is NOT attached you don't need ANY drywall.
But please, type another stupid, pointless, insult that just makes you look like the immature little brat you are. And people wonder why this site is dying
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bullfrog123
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OSB in a shop/garage
Wow not what I want with welders, torches, grinders, etc...For what it's worth... My shop, and my last one, have heavy gage metal siding installed vertically at least 6-8' up from the floor. The siding resists sparks, flying wrenches, etc. If you need to hang stuff.. use roofing screws or self taping metal screws.
Nice to know when I shut down the shop for the nite that I don't have a glowing ember embedded in a chunk of OSB smolering
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Supplicate
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Thats the only way to go. Had that in both industrial shops that I helped renovate.
When I get around to building or renovating a garage it will have metal siding with the cavity filled with fire resistant spray foam insulation.
OSB in a shop/garage
For what it's worth... My shop, and my last one, have heavy gage metal siding installed vertically at least 6-8' up from the floor. The siding resists sparks, flying wrenches, etc. If you need to hang stuff.. use roofing screws or self taping metal screws.
Nice to know when I shut down the shop for the nite that I don't have a glowing ember embedded in a chunk of OSB smolering
Have you ever tried to get heavily painted OSB to burn? Throw it into a big fire and it will eventully burn, but hold a lighter to it and good luck......
Better have a big checkbook or know someone, the metal isn't to bad for price but that insulation is insane.....
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I suppose you don't keep gasoline or other flammable objects in your shop either (Notice I said shop, not garage). If you want to debate something then debate it, don't come across as an arrogant a$$hole. Then again maybe that is all you are.
In the old man’s shop (detached 40x60 with 14’ side walls). On the walls we used 7/16”, 4x8 sheet smart siding with the 8” o.c. vertical grooves. The ceiling was 5/8”, 4x8 sheet smart siding with no groves. Then we painted the entire thing. You could wash trucks in there as it was an exterior product and if it got hit it was very durable. I will do my shop the same way. Plus it gives it a unique look. I have seen a lot of shops with OSB, Plywood, Gypsum and metal panels and I think all look good if it’s a quality install.
I’m also a big fan of having a detached garage for “working” in and use the house garage as parking only. That way if you ever have a fire problem the house is a separate entity. But this is not an option for everybody.
I’m also a big fan of having a detached garage for “working” in and use the house garage as parking only. That way if you ever have a fire problem the house is a separate entity. But this is not an option for everybody.
Well Said!
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SLEDIOT
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Funny, considering i've probably hung more OSB and drywall in the last few years then you have in your whole life, bud. I gaurentee I know more when it comes to building code then you. It is common sense you need drywall as a fire barrier to your house if the garage is attached, and if you want to get technical many places you need fireguard drywall. If your garage is NOT attached you don't need ANY drywall.
But please, type another stupid, pointless, insult that just makes you look like the immature little brat you are. And people wonder why this site is dying
U speak like u know me? Little Brat? Been a carpenter for 15 yrs working on a millwright apprenticeship at an LP OSB plant, my riding partner is the city building inspector, my days off carpentry boss is the step by step home inspector here In Dawson Creek BC and Ive been pounding nails for almost 20 years. Maybe U should just pour yerself a cup of shut the Fu** up dumbazz. And as for little Brat I happen to be a lil over 230 lean and could make love to yer dawg while holding you down and make u squeal my name. Cheers BFF. Friend request sent to cheer U up smart guy............
My apologies to fellow snowesters for the comments. Its all good........
U speak like u know me? Little Brat? Been a carpenter for 15 yrs working on a millwright apprenticeship at an LP OSB plant, my riding partner is the city building inspector, my days off carpentry boss is the step by step home inspector here In Dawson Creek BC and Ive been pounding nails for almost 20 years. Maybe U should just pour yerself a cup of shut the Fu** up dumbazz. And as for little Brat I happen to be a lil over 230 lean and could make love to yer dawg while holding you down and make u squeal my name. Cheers BFF. Friend request sent to cheer U up smart guy............
My apologies to fellow snowesters for the comments. Its all good........
Ah I forgot who it was and actually accepted it, not like I care
Building inspector, wow what did that take, a 2 week course? Most building inspectors don't know the difference between OSB and drywall. I've seen things they've passed and somehow "missed", not one of them has known ANYTHING on anything from a house to a garage they've inspected for me. Heck, when I was running behind they came and inspected the framing on a house not even done and PASSED it, I guess strapping and blocking trusses is no longer code?
Like I am going to have any faith in something a builder inspector says Feel free to talk all the **** you want, but you won't do it anyplace but the forum little kid. If you think your tough from working as a carpenter you need to try a real job, and not a job a 100lb girl can do. When you can take a piece of land and have the knowledge and skill to turn it into a house yourself, you might have SOME room to talk. Now go build another spice rack.....
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another well said.
as of now my attached garage is all I got....course my toys live at the in-laws and parents houses. When I build I will strongly fight for diamond plate or other metal at least 4 foot high for safety and cleaning. Probably rock on the rest....but it will still be an attached garage since I'm gonna always be in town until I retire.
Now the retirement shop.home will be another story.
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SLEDIOT
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Ah I forgot who it was and actually accepted it, not like I care
Building inspector, wow what did that take, a 2 week course? Most building inspectors don't know the difference between OSB and drywall. I've seen things they've passed and somehow "missed", not one of them has known ANYTHING on anything from a house to a garage they've inspected for me. Heck, when I was running behind they came and inspected the framing on a house not even done and PASSED it, I guess strapping and blocking trusses is no longer code?
Feel free to talk all the **** you want, but you won't do it anyplace but the forum little kid. If you think your tough from working as a carpenter you need to try a real job, and not a job a 100lb girl can do. When you can take a piece of land and have the knowledge and skill to turn it into a house yourself, you might have SOME room to talk. Now go build another spice rack.....
I dunno what to say I feel bullied by a key board jocky. Bottom line use OSB if U like but if yer garage burns down and the firemarshall finds out it was sheeted in OSB the insurance claim is gonna be tough to collect. attached or detached you will have a tough time. CYCLE cum for a ride..........yer too wound up for a lil kid.
Ah again speaking out of your a$$! Funny how I know this, my brother is in training right now to become a fightfighter
Unless you are storing something flammable like propane, fuel, etc there is NOTHING they say or do. Insurance can't and won't say a THING. I bet your the guy preaching about this but keeps full jerry cans or propane bottles or something in their garage You started the insults buddy, don't dish out what you can't take. And know what your talking about before you start talking out your a$$.
Ah again speaking out of your a$$! Funny how I know this, my brother is in training right now to become a fightfighter
You started the insults buddy, don't dish out what you can't take. And know what your talking about before you start talking out your a$$.
who doesn't keep a can of gas or a tank of propane in their garage? Hell my lawn mower doesn't run on my power
all the same I better not mention the jugs of used motor oil waiting to be recycled sitting in there too.
or the can of zip strip sitting my a can of varnish next to a can of stain opposite of some paint cans.
