I would like to drywall the walls of my garage in order to make the area brighter and provide an ability to organize storage more efficiently. Do I need to put in insulation and vapour barrier? I am not keen on insulating the entire garage.
There have been houses standing for a hundred years and more with no insulation in the walls so I don't see the harm it would do. If you're still concerned, strap the studs horizontally with 1X3 and the apply 1/8" peg board to them. This gives you all kinds of organized storage and if you paint it, you get all the brightness you might want.
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I am planning to put up a two car garage this summer. What type of foundation should I put it in? I intend to ... |
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I would like to drywall the walls of my garage in order to make the area brighter and provide an ability to or ... |
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I want to convert a single garage into a living space.
Our house is a raised bungalow and the living room i ... |
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We are planning to put a baseboard electric heater in the garage and use it as a spare bedroom. The garage doo ... |
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we have to patch two holes in our concrete garage floor. Can you please give me some instructions on how to do ... |
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Our garage door has problems opening in the winter, but it is fine in the summer. What do you think it could b ... |
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We want to replace our garage floor due to erosion. What's the best way to do this? ... |
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We have recently built a home with an attached heated garage in Edmonton (Alta). Condensation is a problem. ... |
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We are planning on adding a room above our garage. What should the first couple of steps be? ... |
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We are converting the unfinished loft above our garage to a studio for my wife who paints in oils. One of the ... |
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Good evening, my garage floor is leaking in to my tool room which is directly below the garage floor.
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I am building a 24x32 garage, with a second floor. It has a 12/12 pitch roof and I want to give it a batten an ... |
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I heard of the possibility of using wood for the garage flooring. Is there a site I can go to get more info? ... |
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I have just bought a house in Barrhaven (ON), and absolutly love it. It has 3 bed rooms, all upstairs. I nee ... |
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We have a 36X24 log house with a full basement, reinforced poured concrete walls, sitting on flat limestone be ... |
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My garage floor is 8 years old and has shifted somewhat. As a result whenever the car has water or snow meltin ... |
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My house is about 15 yrs old. The garage floor is asphalt and the concrete on the garage wall is flaking and i ... |
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I have a separate 2 car garage that I would like to insulate so that I may work there during the cold winter n ... |
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I'm finishing up a reno of our run down garage (we moved in recently). The walls were just sitting on dir ... |
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I have an attached garage that I am converting half of to a heated workshop. The is a bedroom above it. The c ... |
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I am converting a garage to a winterized workshop.
I am putting a wooden floor over the concrete one.
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I just finished applying your prescribed mixture to my garage floor; now, how do I know when it's okay to ... |
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We would like to put a floor and a folding stair in the attic of our garage. We are planning to use it to stor ... |
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We have a house that has a kitchen above the garage . My question is what is the air space require between the ... |
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15 years ago used an excellent industrial paint. It doesn't wear, it doesn't fade. Now it is peeling ... |
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A while back you suggested sealing a garage floor with boiled linseed oil. Did you also say to mix it half an ... |
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Our home is approximately 10 years old. I noticed what appeared to be water stains on the ceiling adjacent to ... |
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I want to protect my garage floor from winter salt, primarily, but also to reduce possible erosion and resulta ... |
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Floor is 25 years old. Double Garage. Floor top has spalled, cement finish gone, aggregate showing badly on on ... |
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We have a 24'X 24' garage that is flooding in the spring, we get about 2" of water in it as the neighb ... |
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I have very cold front bedrooms on the second level. The tenants say they can see their breath in the winter. ... |
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People have noticed that there is no heating in the garage and recommend that I should install some sort of he ... |
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My 30 year old detached garage has developed a 4 inch sag in the roof line. This is a 2 car garage about 20x24 ... |
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I have an elevated bungalow and have 2 layers of shingle on the main roof and one on the attached garage. I wa ... |
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My garage is part of my basement. 2 of the walls are concrete and the other is drywall. This summer there has ... |
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A couple of months ago, I wrote you regarding a garage renovation project, which I am now just about to begin. ... |
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Should a garage be fully insulated? I do not use the garage as a workshop and above the garage ceiling is stor ... |
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I have purchased a new home and have heard you mention how to treat the garage floor. However, I have only ca ... |
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As a follow-up to my phone call to you last Saturday, what kind of ventilation system would you recommend as b ... |
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Can leftover cans of paint be stored in an unheated garage all year round? ... |
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