The past couple of months I’ve been focused on the Trans Am project. Last week I finally got the gate made for the deck. Most of the time the gate will be open, but any time we’re out and want either to keep the dog off the deck or Melanie on the deck, we can use the gate. I will stain it when we get a break in the weather.
The next house project is to insulate the garage. I’ve been holding off on insulating the garage until I got extra outlets wired in, but now I’m just going to forgo the extra outlets and just insulate it. The extra cost of having an electrician add the outlets vs. how often we would use them in the garage pretty much sealed the deal on skipping them.
My plan is to roll-in insulation into the walls, then follow up with drywall. From there on in I’ll be learning how to tape joints and fill in gaps. I’ve never done drywall before, so it will be a good learning experience. It is a garage so I will not feel too bad if I don’t do a top quality job.
The garage door is going to be the most time consuming part of the insulation project. I’ve looked at kits, but they seem overly priced. I will most likely buy strips of foam insulation and glue them in followed by replacing the rubber seals around the door. I estimate about $180 to insulate and drywall the remaining 1-1/2 walls in the garage, and another $200 to insulate the garage door itself. It is crazy to think the door will cost as much, if not more, than to insulate the rest of the garage.
One thing I am going to do is paint a visible vertical line on the footer brick in the garage inline with the vertical studs that way when I go back to hang tools and such, I know where I can drill without using drywall anchors.
What sorts of suggestions do you have for my garage insulation project?
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You could hang pegboard instead of drywall. It will serve two purposes. It will hold in the insulation and you can hang tools and other equipment using various hooks that you can purchase. I have one wall of the garage that is pegboard. Someday, I may pull off the drywall on the other walls and put up more pegboard.
That’s a great idea. Do you put something behind the peg board so the pegs don’t poke/damage the insulation?
I wonder if I can put drywall horizontally along the bottom 4′ then set the pegboard from 4′ to 10′. Around here pegboard is more expensive than drywall, that let me maximize both materials.
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