Best Interior Wall Finishes for a Workshop or Garage

hi everyone in this video i'm going to go over some different options for interior wall finishes in a workshop or a garage and it's coming up right now [Music] so if you've been following along on the shop build videos you've noticed that i've used some different different types of wall coverings here in the wood shop and over in the fab shop so what i like to do for you is run down a list of interior wall finishing options and include some pros and cons and do a price breakdown to help you decide what would be best for your shop well let's start with drywall so the pros of drywall are that it's really easy to install the sheets themselves they're pretty forgiving they're easy to cut and they go up pretty fast if you have any gaps or a mistake it's easy to fix with some tape and some drywall mud it's also then you know paintable to whatever color you want to choose for your shop and it's also the least expensive so drywall depending on whether you use like 5 8 for a ceiling or half inch on the walls runs you around 30 cents a square foot i use 5 8 inch drywall here in the ceiling in my shops and i used half inch drywall on this wall and on the north wall over here and that's because these walls are mostly going to be filled up with cabinets on both of those sides and here behind the radial arm so i'm not really going to be hanging anything so i thought it'd be just quick and easy and cheaper to use drywall here so some of the cons of using drywall though are that it is easily damaged especially in the shop environment where you might be swinging around you know 10 foot long boards or heavy objects or something awkward awkwardly shaped um they can ding it or dent it or even crack a hole right through the wall pretty easily compared to other materials the other con is that finishing drywall for me is not very fun at all i've done quite a bit of it over the last 30 years being a a builder and building several houses for myself i did a lot of my own drywall work and i can say that finally this last time around when i finished this drywall here i finally got what i would call a professional finish on it so there's a butt joint right here in the center of this wall and then there's right about here there's a seam all the way across and looking at this wall is perfectly flat and looks good now for most do-it-yourselfers though that can be a daunting task to tackle a drywall project and get it to look perfect but because it's a workshop or a garage it's a good place to practice your drywall skills so for me the two things this time around that really helped up my game on drywall is on the ceiling i did what's called a knockdown stop and i have a video that i'll link in the description and it was really easy to just put a couple coats a tape coat and another coat on and then go over it doing the stop and the knock down i didn't have to sand anything on the ceiling at all and i think it turned out spectacular it looks really good and then the other tip i have for getting a really nice flat finish on walls is to use something called fiberfuse um i use that instead of paper tape because for me paper tape i always seem to get little air pockets in it and then you have to go back and cut those out and everything this fiberfuse is made out of fiberglass and it you can just put it on in a light bed and then put more drywall mud over top of it and it works great it doesn't bubble up and for me and taking my time finishing it um that turned out to be you know the best process to get a good finish so at a about you know 26 to 33 cents a square foot for the drywall sheets and then to buy the tape and the mud and the screws and all of that in order to do a typical 24 by 24 foot garage with 10 foot walls would cost you just over 500 dollars five to six hundred dollars just for the materials and a little bit more than that for your paint and your primer and that's with you know the homeowner doing it themselves um so that's gonna be the cheapest option for um that typical two-car garage so option number two is using osb for your wall finishing and that's what i did here in this garage so a while back when i remodeled my in-laws house i moved this garage that was attached their house back here to the back of the property and for quite a while i use this as my wood shop and you might recognize this from some of my older woodworking videos so what i did when i when i finished this is i just used osb half inch osb on the ceiling and on the walls and the pros to use osb is that it is relatively inexpensive it's the next least expensive option at about 80 to 90 cents a square foot to buy the osb sheets themselves so osb is one of those lumber commodities that fluctuates in price quite a bit you know depending on the season uh whether or not there's been a lot of hurricanes um and other factors so osb um when i did this was probably about five dollars a sheet where now it's like maybe 25 dollars a sheet so that price can really vary depending on the season time of the year um whether or not there's any hurricanes and that kind of stuff supply and demand um so for to finish these walls though i mean it just takes your sheets of osb some drywall screws and some primer and paint so the other advantage to to using osb is that it makes a great substrate for just you know if you want to decorate the walls like my father-in-law has here now with all these items you can just easily just screw or nail right into that osb and it holds your stuff just fine um compared to drywall where you might have to put an anchor in so now the cons for osb is that you know it doesn't give a perfect finish you can see all the different uh little strands of wood in there little gaps and cracks and stuff like that so you know it's not going to be a perfect finish but it still i think could look nice especially for a workshop or a garage and for this particular garage which is 24 by 24 and it's got 10 foot ceiling so this is the average size garage i'm trying to give a price comparison on it cost in today's prices about 1200 to finish the ceiling and walls and osb so option three on the list is using plywood now you can see here in my fab shop i use what's called bcx and it's sanded on one side so this is the b side and it has a pretty smooth finish and i ended up staining it and i used this all the way around the whole shop on three walls except for one wall which is drywall and i really like this because you can screw you know anything right to it you don't necessarily have to hit a stud depending on how heavy it is and i really like the look of it so for for me those are the pros um the cons are it gets to be pretty pricey one sheet of this bcx plywood is 35 right now and those prices do vary somewhat too like osb does uh the other con is when you have a lot of receptacles to cut in it can be a little bit difficult to find that box and mark it and cut it out so that's a little bit tougher than say drywall where you would just put your sheet up and run a rotozip around that box so at 35 a sheet that puts plywood at about a dollar 10 or so per square foot now to do that same 24 by 24 garage would now cost you upwards of like hundred to sixteen hundred dollars for the plywood screws and you know gallon of stain to finish it hey as we're going through these i hope you're finding value and if you do i'd really appreciate it if you hit the thumbs up button because that'll help youtube spread this video out on many other people so that they can also find some value in it for me this bcx plywood is is my favorite finishing because i wanted to get especially in this shop which i call my fab shop which i'm going to have a welding bench here and stuff um and doing a lot like a metal fabrication and working on vehicles and that sort of thing but i wanted to have like an old industrial shop type feel to it and i think that that stained that dark stain plywood does that and as you can see i got these this cabinet build that i'm working on right now there'll be some videos of these uh coming up soon too so if you're not subscribed to my channel yet uh be a good opportunity to do so right now and hit that notification bell so when these videos come out you could uh be first ones to see them so the fourth option is to use steel barn siding on your ceiling and your walls in your shop here i'm on the outside i'm in my lean tube outside of the shop and i use it on the whole exterior of my barn but a lot of people like to use it on the interior and you'll see i'll leave a link for um kyle over at r r buildings uh they build many different pole barns and they all most of the time they use steel for interior finishes so i'll leave a link for one of his videos for you so you can check that out um the pros for this is it goes up quick and easy um it's already pre-finished and um you know it looks pretty nice i just i didn't want that kind of tinny metallic sound to be in my shop because i i'm going to be doing a lot of filming in my shop and i wanted more of a softer look and softer sound both in the shop but some of the cons to this stuff is um like i just mentioned that you kind of feels like you're inside a refrigerator to me the other thing is that to trim everything out you got to buy all the extra j channels and other pieces and parts like that which sometimes are special orders so if you don't have everything just right you're gonna have to go back and order your the rest of your pieces and wait on them to come in before you can finish your project but other than that i think it's a really good option and a lot of people like to do it so the cost of this is roughly about a dollar square foot and to do that same uh 24 by 24 garage would be roughly again about the fifteen to sixteen hundred dollars because in addition to that uh siding itself boy those geese are loud so in addition to that siding itself then you have all those trim pieces which can add up and the screws too you have to get the special colored screws to match which can also add to the okay so option five is what's called a slat wall and you know the big box stores sell this uh melamine coated um paneling that has t-slots built into it so that you can use all these different accessories that slide into those t-slots so that stuff is pre-finished or or you could buy it where you could paint it also and you could even line your all your walls in your shop with that material then that way you have many different options of where you want to hang stuff so really that flexibility is its biggest pro so that slat wall with the white finish could be about the same price as doing a plywood finish only you'd probably want to do a drywall on your ceiling in that case so if you did that 24 by 24 garage with the drywall ceiling and the slat wall all the way around um it would actually be a little bit cheaper than what it would cost to do the plywood all the way around and on the ceiling so you're looking at maybe fourteen hundred dollars to do that that same project so that can be a great option if you like that nice clean bright sleek look and you want the versatility to be able to you know put all those different types of hangers and tool holders uh you can hang you know bike hangers from it um cabinetry you can get that slips right into those t-slots and it'd be a great option okay here so here's one uh bonus option i guess um so this is the only unfinished wall i have in my shop right now and it's just bare drywall and the reason for that is because i'm going to finish this with plywood strips i'm going to stain different colors and i've done this um in our house for my son's bedroom we did one accent wall that same way and i'll leave that link to that video up in the card and also in the description so and the reason why i put drywall on first is because that plywood strip i use just 3 8 plywood so it's quite a bit cheaper to do and having the drywall behind it makes installation easy and then there's no bowing in between studs or anything like that that can give you a nice accent wall if you want to do something different on a different wall in your shop and actually you can see here above above my workbench in the wood shop i have that same look so hopefully this video gave you some ideas to help you choose and if you would let me know in the comments what option you did choose for your interior wall finishing and if there's something that i missed or some other different alternative wall covering let me know that too so i really appreciate you watching and up here in this car there's gonna be a link to the full uh playlist for the shop build and down on this card down here is another video that youtube thinks that you want to watch so i will see you in the next one you call it maria that doesn't make any sense marianne i get out of breath because i just talked without taking a breath

Channel: Country Family Homestead

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Length: 15min 35sec (935 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 24 2021