The installation of drywall in the garage and the insulation will help make the garage energy efficient and maintain a comfortable temperature. It will also make it look more like a suitable living space rather than a garage with a feeling of cold or sterility. Thank you for your comment and for reading our blog. Where in Colorado is it located? If you want to do exactly what we did, you'll need 26% wall insulation for roofs, staples (to hold the insulation) and a heavy-duty stapler.
If you also want drywall, you'll need all the drywall, screws, adhesive tape, mud and the tools to do it. You may also need a drywall lift, unless you can ask someone to help you. Well, I've done it alone, but it's always easier to have an assistant. As I told Bhim, if you want to do exactly what we did, you need 26% insulation on the roof walls, staples to hold the insulation and a heavy-duty stapler.
You can have an assistant or a drywall riser to make it easier to hang the drywall. After installing the drywall on the ceiling, you can blow the insulation into the attic. Housing centers and some rental stores sell inflatable insulators and often offer free or reduced rent for the fan if insulation is purchased for them. The plywood seen in the pictures before installing the insulation is the plywood outside the house (under the siding).
By fixing the drywall along each post, you will ensure that there are no gaps through which the drywall can exit the strut. When you finally have the drywall hung properly, sealed with adhesive tape and ready to work, you can continue with the rest of the construction process to finish transforming the garage into the extra space you've always wanted. Fix each drywall sheet with drywall screws along each stud, just as you did with the first sheet. Insulation plays a critical role in retaining heat and cold; you must keep your garage comfortable.
Sanding and smoothing drywall is horrible, especially if you were careless in blurring the initial edges of the seams like I did in some places. Most drywall sheets come in 4-foot x 8-foot panels, and you can hang them horizontally or vertically. Once you have the measurements, mark them on the top and bottom of the new drywall sheet with a pencil or carpenter's marker. In fact, after installing the insulation and before finishing the drywall work, I started working and even finishing other projects, good examples are Rock Work around the House and the DIY home theater installation.
This is the first time I've placed drywall on something larger than a patch on the wall, so I made some mistakes that I want to correct by applying drywall to the other wall in my garage. Once the lighting and plumbing have been fixed and you have marked the location of all the wiring and sockets, you can hang the drywall sheets. A skimmed layer is a lightweight layer of drywall that adds a very thin final layer of drywall to obtain an even surface on which to paint. In warmer climates, such as Florida, where I live, insulation and drywall help keep warm air out of where it belongs.
I went over and over the same section of the wall, trying to fix the imperfections, only to discover that my drywall knife was causing them. With the insulation installed, weeks later, after completing my two previous projects, I proceeded to apply drywall, adhesive tape and mud to the walls and ceiling, using the same materials, including some scraps, from my previous garage project. .
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