Insulating a Garage, Adding Outlets, and Installing OSB Panels

so the husband's out of town for the week and look what he left behind I am definitely gonna have some fun with this later okay I just dropped my husband off at the airport he will be gone for four days and I've been dying to do this project for him as a surprise this is his shot his garage where he wants to do projects that are more of a mechanical nature he is very handy and very intelligent and he likes to tinker with things with pretty much anything with horsepower however his two walls this one and the back one are not insulated so it's my intention to tear down the sheetrock insulate these walls and then replace a sheetrock with OSB boards let's get going because I'm very excited about this one the first thing I did was move everything off the wall so that I would have plenty of room to work okay so I've moved everything that I feel comfortable moving by myself and I have a friend coming over to help me move the bike the wheeler and that hardware bin so in the meantime I will go ahead and start ripping down sheetrock this part went a lot quicker than expected it came off in big sheets and I used a flat bar to kind of shimmy it off the studs the wall that didn't have hole in it already I just made my own and then repeated the process by ripping off in panels I did break it up just to make it easier for hauling off I try to be cool and do a ninja chop it didn't work once I was done I loaded it into the back of the truck and then just hauled it off to the dump last thing I did on that day was go to all the studs and pull the nails from the sheetrock okay so right now my husband only has one outlet in his entire garage which is just stupid so since I have the walls down to the stud I'm gonna go ahead and add a few more on each wall for him I'm not I'm not very knowledgeable on electrical work yet so right now I'm just going to focus on installing the boxes in the romex 12-2 wiring and then if I have enough time afterwards after the walls and installations up then I'll come back and finish the wiring I made four circuits for the 10 outlets and they used a paddle bit run the wire up to the Attic when I came time to run the romex I use the help of this wiring book and it was extremely useful so I recommend it if you're learning electrical work so all I did at this point let's cut the links of romex and then place them in the boxes that will daisy chain the outlets together that are on the same circuit then I purchased a few cans of the great stuff spray foam and apply to bead to all of the seams any holes I found as well as behind all of the outlet boxes it might be overkill but the sucker is going to be insulated the next morning I came through with a saw and cut away in the excess now this video is sponsored by Johns Manville and I'm going to be using their craft bass bass that are pre-cut for 2x4 studs eight-foot walls that are on 24 inch centers but of course they make all the different variations if you have 2 by 6 does if you have nine-foot walls 16 inch centers so be sure to check the tags before you purchase your insulation I chose this row because I'm hoping that the pre-cut bats will make the step go a lot quicker also Johns Manville has a winter warrior program going on right now where they want to see the projects that you're doing that's gearing up for a winter so go to the social media platforms and share the projects that you're doing to prepare for a winter by using the hashtag winter warrior these pre-cut bats were awesome I was able to just take a bat and then put it into the panel um you don't want to compress it you just want it to have a nice friction fit so I would put it into the panel and then just come and tuck the edges in now all of my bats were just just tad bit too long so I took a fox blade and then just cut it off at the bottom and then again tucked in the bottom to where is a nice friction fit any of the panels with outlets I would first put the bat in place and make some shallow cuts with my fox blade on where the outlet fell then use a hard surface to finish making the cut also since some of these panels have wiring I would split the bat and have put half of the back behind the wire II and then put the other half in front then I came through and stapled the flanges of two bats together on the face of the stud for all of the panels that were smaller than 23 inches I again just used a fox blade to cut down the bat in order to fit that panel never doing something like this before and working by myself it took me around five hours to do the whole garage okay so the last thing to do was to start laying the OSB working by myself and moving poll sheets is kind of difficult but I have a system worked out I would put the sheet on my foot which is a still toe shoe and then just kind of use my leg as well as my arms to put it up on the cell versus I would first measure my space then rip my panel down to size just a side note this is the first circular saw that I've used with the laser guide and I love it for the outlets I would first measure and then mark the location on the plywood then I would just use a jigsaw to cut it out getting these panels into place by myself was kind of affair I would first set it on top of two two by fours then use two other two by fours as kind of a lever to raise it to the height I needed it then I was able to use my drill and screws to kind of tack it down in two different places and then I was able to step off lever and then finish screwing it down you want about an eighth of an inch between these panels so I went through and tacked in a few nails to act as spacers so this was a big project to take on in a four-day period and I was literally working until the very last minute so I'll still have to come back and add in that last panel all of the molding around the top and then also finished the wiring running the four lines I left in the Attic over to the breaker box so for a cost breakdown I spent $100 and OSP around 160 for the insulation and then $40 for the romex wiring so not bad considering all of the benefit that the insulation will provide whenever we install a heating and a/c unit so stay tuned for my husband's response as well as future projects in his shop doing something about this lighting situation is on the list probably insulating the garage door as well as the Attic is on the list as well as tons of other things so check out Welker news calm for a full tutorial of this project as well as all my other projects I will see you the next time I'm building something what's up honey what's up with you whoa are you serious oh my so I agree amount of time so I have one more channel to do but I addict you've been doing this whole time yes oh oh my god you like it it you're not perfect did you put insulation in yeah see I know the cars dirty but I did make them it's okay it's okay as long as you didn't scratch it I got it I was really like conscious the entire week around like I believe that you'd like it actually did you have a doughnut don't do what I did you a few donors in it are you serious okay so if you don't see me next Sunday it's because my husband has killed me I think it's totally worth it though I am dead I am a dead girl babe I love you I hope the insulation makes up for me doing donuts in your car

Channel: April Wilkerson

Views: 1,486,669

Rating: 4.8812122 out of 5

Keywords: How to install insulation, tear down sheetrock, install OSB, adding outlets to a garage, how to insulate a garage, adding OSB, Johns Manville insulation, precut batt insulation, female woodworker, corvette donuts, DIY, Man cave, surprise husband present, Add outlets

Id: XMziwBDduVs

Length: 8min 36sec (516 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 04 2015