I need to put something up on the walls of my shop to hold the blown in insulation in place. Anyone got any suggestions for anything cheaper than drywall?
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Plastic.
Tar paper/tyvek.
Yadda yadda yadda
OSB?
It's now much cheaper than drywall.
4x12 sheet of rock just jumped $2.50 a board here at Lowe's ($17.54). And a 4x8 went from $8.54 to $ 11.97
and OSB would give ya nailers everywhere...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
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Outstanding...good suggestion...didn't even consider it.
4x12 sheet of rock just jumped $2.50 a board here at Lowe's ($17.54).
Where is that? 'picked up some at the HD here for ~$11.50 (4x12).
I don't know how much you have to do, but just remember with a shop you should at least consider the fire rating issue.
Check it out--I posted the same question on Knots, and an insurance claims adjuster said if my shop is not attached to my house, I could get away with not using drywall. He used 1/4 OSB on his shop.OK, dunno nothin' 'bout legality of it, but an insurance adjuster using OSB!!!
Thats not all that uncommon here in the land of steel ag buildings. Lots of guys sheet the inside, entirely or just one end "the working area" with OSB. It's cheap, holds up, and like someone said, you can attach to it wherever you want."Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think -- there are no little things" - Bruce Barton
1/4" OSB ???
wassat and why do dey make it ?
carpenter in transition
Just sputtering what I heard. Well, now I hope they make that stuff...
If the walls are open, why are you using blown in? Just curious why you aren't using FG batts or rolls.
Went to a local yard to price the best FG batts they got--R19, and the price was comparable to the blown-in. Then I'd have to deal with gaps and seams (pole building). But with the blown-in, I am over R20 (forgot exactly). Yeah, I am a high R nut.
OSB up to 4 feet high, poly over the upper half, then 1/4" tempered pegboard over the poly. Screw on a horizontal rabbeted 1x2 as a cap over the joint, and screw a 1x3 continuous stool to that. You can set and hang all kinds of stuff to that stool.
Get the heavy duty pegboard hooks in all shapes and sizes and you can hang up all your plastic-cased tools like screwguns, nailguns, etc., your huge clamp collection, all your power sanders, sawblades, chisel collections, planes, your world-class collection of router bits, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Do you have a pic or a link or a drawing ? I really like the idea just having a little trouble envisioning the stool/ 1x2 detail... Thanx
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Edited 7/10/2006 11:05 pm ET by woody1777
It's a dust catcher, but handy. Near a router table, it is drilled full of 5/16" and 9/16" holes, for bits. There are many other uses.
Thanks !A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specializtion is for insects. - robert heinlen
tufenhundel,
Go find your local sawmill. Mine will sell me millruns for only 17 cents a bd. ft. That's $5.44 for 32 sq. ft. (the size of a 4x8 sheet) The wood sold to pallet mills may be whatever is available, this week it's basswood, next week it might be ash or red oak or whatever.. It's always lower grade wood like 2B or whatever. Solidwood but with enough flaws that furniture makers won't take it.. Sure it's rough and green but it can be made beautiful if you have a planer and some time.
If you want even cheaper and are willing to accept some more work you could have him set aside the thins.. You see mother nature never seems to make all trees exactly an even inch size. So whenever boards are less than an inch thick the sawmill sets them aside. MY sawmill will sell me a whole pickup truck full of thins for $20.00 that's about 600 to 800 sq ft. (that's about 25 4x8 sheets for only $20.00. Now the really tough part is that thins are random thickness.. it may be 7/8ths of an inch or only 1/4 inch. depending on how fussy you are you might need several pickups full before you have enough of the proper thickness to do a whole wall so three pickups full of wood will cost you about $60.00 and if you are willing to put those about 4/3 of an inch on one wall 1/2 inch on another wall and say 1/4 on the third wall.
Thanks frenchy. Man those sound like good prices. I sure does sound like a cheap solution...only if I have a local sawmill!!! I feel so deprived everytime I hear someone mentioning their local sawmill. Now actually I should really look since moving here.
tufenhundel,
The easy way is to contact woodmiser, they sell smaller sized sawmills that are easy to afford and they help the owners by refering customers to them.. Call a few and ask. really easy to do.. The other source is grab your yellow pages and call up the pallet mills, ask them where they get their wood from..
Bigger Sawmills are seldom near a major highway, those that are tend to have great big fence around with a whole staff of people and rules that prevent you from getting great deals..
Like anything else, hunting for diamonds or gold you do have to look, it's not found in your back yard, at least not out in the open..
...anything cheaper than drywall?
Since a whole truck load of broken drywall sheets can be bought from just about any lumber yard for dirt nothing, about the only thing cheaper would be cardboard boxes. Follow the local bums for sources of the larger boxes, probably appliance stores. :-)
Seriously, broken or odd length drywall is so inexpensive that I'd be surprised if anything comes close to the price.
Good insulating.
Went to the box store to see about 1/4 OSB, it was under $7. I'll have to call a few places and ask about damaged drywall. Thanks.
Seriously, broken or odd length drywall is so inexpensive that I'd be surprised if anything comes close to the price.
Good point. I was leaving a local BORG the other day, and noticed a sign on the stack of 4x12 drywall "see manager to save $500 on this unit". That would bring the price down to something like $3 a sheet. Maybe they were damaged on the other side; the kids they have driving the forklifts at the HD a often pretty careless.
Melamine over hardboard panels are available in 4'x8' sheets. Several colors, no painting necesary, and cleaning is easy (immune to just about all common oils and chemicals). Joints between the panels are covered with vinyl H-molding, so they aren't as "finished" looking as drywall.