Step by step photos of new garage

[roermo]

Hay guys need a favor from you all,

My brother in law is looking over my shoulder as I type this,

the question this: is it better to go with 8 ft 7/16 osb for a 9 foot walls at $5.30 per sheet or 9 foot 7/16 osb for 9ft walls. at 8.40, \\]

His is his point no seams with the 9 ft.

Keep in mind I am buying this for him in ruturn he installe a 220 vlt entrance over head, but he forgets I help too.


Help me from him killing me.

Roger

 

[EddieWalker]

Roger,

Every time you can avoid a seam, you make it stronger and more weather tite. Saying that, the difference is going to be minimal in the overall job. If it was mine, I'd avoid the seam and spend the extra $3 a sheet.

Eddie

 

[WayneB]

Eddie is right, go for the 9 ft sheets and no seams....

 

[kmdigital]

Since this is inside, being weathertite isn't an issue. The 8' sheets cost about $0.165 per sq ft, and the 9' sheets cost $0.233 per sq ft. It shouldn't be that way, but it has to do with supply and demand I suppose, i.e. they sell a lot more 4x8 sheets than 4x9 sheets, and mostly the professionals will buy the 9' sheets because their time is more valuable and it makes sheeting a house wall a lot faster and stronger when you can cover both the rim joist and the wall with one full sheet.

Anyway, it mostly depends what your time is worth. The longer sheets save a lot of time, but cost more. You could toenail 2x4s in at the joint for the 8' sheets, and then they are as good as the others, but your talking lots more time, both in cutting the sheets, the 2xs and nailing them up.

Your choice.

 

[EddieWalker]

Since this is inside, being weathertite isn't an issue.

I didn't realize it was on the interior.

For the inside, I'd go with the cheaper 8ft panals and put the seam at the bottom where it won't be as noticable.

Sorry about that, I guess I wasn't paying attention.

Eddie

 

[roermo]

Sorry guys I did not say if it was for out or inside. It is for the inside.

Long story short: the brother in-law is a very dear soul that would help any one including me. We have a deal, I help him out on his garage grunt labor etc, plus I dug out his spot for the garage with my tractor, plus brought the sheet rock for his ceiling and the boxing for the inside. Early on I paid him 2500 for the concrete work he did on my garage plus he got the forms. He helped set the trusses and help lay the deck on the roof.

When it came time for the entrance wire, weather head, meter base and panel I said help me and I’ll buy the 8ft osb for the inside of your garage and a little to boot. Well that was fine.

Today I went head and got the osb for him and did the extra by getting the 9ft osb. The kicker was I had it delivered to his house with an old pair of boots nailed to the top 4x9 with a note saying “ I was not sure what was meant about a little to boot so here is what I thought was agreed to:”

Waiting for his call: should be good.

Roger

Ps city got the electric ran to my meter base this afternoon. Almost did not happen, so much ice on the ground they had to run it by hand, the trucks with the lifts (bucket would not make it into my yard. The fail a few times but kept at it and tonight I will start hooking up some temporary lighting. So I am off and running.

Roger

 

[gemini5362]

Roger the sheet and plywall hoist on the link is the one i bought plus I bought the extension rod so that it will go up to 15 feet. It was shipped on tuesday. With the ice and snow we are getting now it will probably be delivered by april.

 

[roermo]

Gemini, that looked like a nice rig. I have put up oh about 6 ceilings in my life ranging from 8 footer to 16 footer always off a later using all arms and some times my head to hold it in place. Let me tell ya that was a work out. This time using the sheet rock jack at the end of the day I felt better and stonger than after putting up 2 sheets by hand. I think they are worth every penny.

My bother in that does it for a living said it was sweet, I think he would use them again but he still thinks it faster by hand. MIght be if you are use to it. But all it would take for me is one wrong step and off the ladder it could be troulbe.

I will never hang a ceiling again with out one. Unless it would be to small of a room maybe.

HOpe you enjoy your new tool. Snap a picture of that beast in action some time.

Roger

 

[Farwell]

Gemini, that looked like a nice rig. I have put up oh about 6 ceilings in my life ranging from 8 footer to 16 footer always off a later using all arms and some times my head to hold it in place. Let me tell ya that was a work out. This time using the sheet rock jack at the end of the day I felt better and stonger than after putting up 2 sheets by hand. I think they are worth every penny.

My bother in that does it for a living said it was sweet, I think he would use them again but he still thinks it faster by hand. MIght be if you are use to it. But all it would take for me is one wrong step and off the ladder it could be troulbe.

I will never hang a ceiling again with out one. Unless it would be to small of a room maybe.

HOpe you enjoy your new tool. Snap a picture of that beast in action some time.

Roger

Roger,
My local lumber yard has a couple panel jacks that they rent out for around $75 a week. I have been toying with buying one for years but just do not need it often enough to buy. In my opinion they are one of the safest ways to install panels especially if you are working alone. I will never hang panels again by hand. When I was young I used two "T" bars with a step ladder and hung wall board alone. Never again.
David B

 

[Bird]

always off a later using all arms and some times my head to hold it in place

Sounds familiar. I've only done one, and it was a very small job; just a new single car garage that a friend was building. My brothers told me they just used their heads, with hard hats on, to hold the panels in place. Well, my buddy and I both had motorcycle helmets, so that's what we used. Sure was awkward, but it actually went pretty well, except the one time my buddy dropped his hammer. So with my head against my end, I tried to reach with my hands as far toward his end as possible to see if I could hold the whole thing while he very quickly jumped down to grab his hammer and get back up there. He got down and got the hammer, but before he could get back up there, that panel broke in two right in the middle.