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I am building a shop and have a fantasy that in a
few years, I may be able to afford to expand it. Thus I would like to put the sheathing along one wall in such a way that I can easily remove it when (if?) the time comes. In the earthquake country of Calif. where I lived some years back, they would not allow screws for sheathing. Up here in the NW, they don’t seem to take earthquakes seriously, so they are probably allowed; however, I would hate to install sheathing and have all the screw heads pop off the first time the shop started to rack in our Columbia Gorge force winds. Are there any general purpose or deck screws that can penetrate t1-11 sheathing without pre-drilling that are maleable enough to be considered suitable for attaching sheathing?
The ideal fastener would seem to be one that could be installed with a pneumatic nail gun but could be removed with a screwdriver. Sort like a ring shank nail except with a spiral grove and a phillips head. Anyone ever hear of such a critter? I mean, if they can make plastic nails for pneumatic use (such as RAPTOR polymer nails
and staples) they should be able to engineer a removable steel nail…
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try drilling the nails out with a drill. i would use galvanized screws myself though.You wont pull out ring shank nails driven with a nail gun, not without tearing it all up. Used this for decking on my own house and those babies hold.
*I would use square drive deck screws myself, 4" on edges and every 6" in the field. Check with the building inspector or an engineer first. You could nail everything where you will NOT add on later.
*CaseyI just finsished "stage one" of my workshop. Because I plan on adding on in the future each sidewall has a 6' header and trimmers in place with cripples and regular sheathing over the opening. Each end has 8' openings with pairs of 4' doors. This approach takes little extra time to frame. When it comes time to add on, 15 min with a sawzall is all that's needed. If your future plan is to open a whole side, plan now for it and install beams etc, now if possible.Scott