Setting up your garage

The home is an insurance deal . It cost more to insure a home with a fire place , insert , pellet.  Nowaday.  A garage has fumes they consider explosive . Just as having an oil fired warm air furnace in the garage .  The burner has to be a minimum of 18" off the floor. Again , your town may be different but I retired from HVAC and had to do many things by the book.  Thought Id stick this out there so in the event , you would be covered.  FjR68
 
Food for thought, don't pull the trigger on a spray gun with your heating appliance is firing on and off. You may become a crispy nugget...
 
The Alan said:
I worked in a cabinet shop for years and we sprayed glue all day long with the wood stove going. 
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Yep, spray glue and paint with my wood stove going, done it for years and still do it in my shop. I just open the door and a window to let the fumes out with cross air flow. It would take a lot in the air to catch fire, probably would't want to spray something large, like a Jeep/car body.
 
You know what's flammable as heck... spray foam. I sprayed some near the gas water heater in the other house and poof. It was kinda dark in there, so it was pretty shocking lol.
 
That comment had nothing to do with what you have gotten away with .  Its about losing something or everything and not being covered by your insurance . Im pretty dam sure all of Ct. has a solid burning restriction for garages . Thats why I suggested to check .  FjR68
 
Reviving this for a question. Been using the crap out of the garage lately but am getting ready to put a ceiling in. Any reason I should or shouldn’t just keep throwing up OSB for the ceiling? Would it be better to do drywall? Does it even matter?

Current plan is to first make some changes to the rafters in the ceiling. Only about 1 in 4 is tied into the trusses and there is significant sag in the rafters. They are 24’ long and only 2x6’s with no center support. I’m going to empty the attic, Jack them up, tie them all in at x distance from the center, and throw a floor down. I plan to close the current opening in the ceiling as it’s less than 4’x4’ and therefore totally useless. I’m finally getting a new set of stairs since mine are sketchy AF. I’ll put a door on the front of the garage above the garage doors for access with items that are larger than can go up the stairs.

Once the structural stuff is done, insulate and either drywall or OSB the ceiling. I sold the wood stove and am going to do gas heat in another year or so. I’ll make do with a portable heater for another year.

Anyone have input on the material to use on the ceiling?

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Oh wow, your not kidding. I think I paid $11 or $12 a sheet when I did the walls in the spring. Both HD and Lowe’s currently selling for $24 a sheet now...


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I was kind of hoping prices of building materials would have come down by now. At the end of the day, I’m gonna pay whatever it cost. Just didn’t know if there was any benefit to one over the other for the ceiling. Certainly hanging the lights exactly where I want on the OSB is a plus. Is there a weight difference? My thought as of now is finish the ceiling in OSB just so it’s all the same, as long as there are no major drawbacks to doing so.


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with the spans you are dealing with i would think about strapping and 1/4" ply. or just 1/4 ply. strapping just makes layout easier and will help even out the humps
 
Not a bad idea to throw in collar ties at each rafter but it is a matter of time that they will sag as wood shrinks and shifts.  As far as a ceiling I think drywall is still relatively inexpensive no?  You wouldn't need to tape or anything but you would need a friend to help place and secure

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From the sounds of it I imagine its standard rafter/ridgeboard framing with collarties every 3rd or 4th rafter which was common in the past to do.  Putting in the collar ties will definitely help the individual rafters and arrest any future sag

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collar ties are really just for keeping the rafter to the ridge. rafter tie is to stop everything from squatting and pushing the walls out.  his rafter tie is probably sagging because its a rafter tie and was never meant to be a floor joist. 
 
From what I can tell it is all regular old 2x6’s and it was stick built. From what I’m told it was put up sometime in the early 80’s but there’s no building permit for it in town records so I don’t really know. Just going by what the neighbor told me. He has been here since 84 and said it was new when he moved in next door. It was not built at the same time as the house, and the house was built in 62. So sometime in between.


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