Makes a change from iron :wink: got few jobs to do and one is lining my garage, so on the look out for some super cheap/free (but not willing to strip it off local building site myself lol ) ply, or mdf or chip or whatever wood I can get which will do the job also looking for some 18mm stuff to hack up one f those bike tables thanks
Shuttering ply is usually 'face one side' (a bit rougher on the other side); should be waterproof (there is a load of Ch***se stuff in the UK now, which is frankly, rubbish.....improperly bonded and not waterproof); is bl**dy tough; commonest thickness 18mm; used a lot for tiled kitchen worksurfaces; but probably too thick for lining walls......OSB is quite good and thinner, but I reckon there won't be much around under 9mm thick...... There is also a lot of thinner Chinese 'oridinary' ply in the UK.....6mm; a lot is not bonded that well and isn't waterproof, but for lining a wall (depending how you fix it and what you want to fix to it) it would probably do really well..... I would probably take the opportunity to insulate the walls as well, but if you do; you must fix a vapour barrier between the ply and the insulation.....In fact fix a vapour barrier between the ply and the wall surface even if you don't insulate it, otherwise you could well find rotten ply in a very short time. If you do manage to get some ply, check it for worm holes.....if you find any, use preservative and insect killer to spray the sheets all over. AL
Cheers for the advice, as I have some loft insulation left over which I intend to use. Guess some poly sheet then ply. Got reasonable size garage hence on the cadge before Wickes!
Don't get the really thick stuff....just make sure it doesn't tear easily....I ususally smear some mastic over the staples before the boards go on... ...Mind you, if it isn't an integral garage, most of your heat loss will be upwards, of course.... ......If you need ply, try a few building sites where they have been casting a lot of concrete (not ground slabs) and the site agent may 'arrange' it for you......shuttering ply will usually clean up well, but the sites will only chuck it. AL
There's no reason why you should need waterproof ply for an internal garage. Technically there's no such thing as waterproof ply any way. I would screw batons to the wall thick enough to allow some kind of insulating material to go behind the boards, either loft insulation or 12mm insulation boards which come in 8 x 4 sheets. Then its a matter of yor choice of boards. 18mm ply is probably overkill for a wall. My choice would either be 12mm OSB (sometimes called strand board or smart-ply). Neither is great for fixing stuff to but there are things you can do. Shuttering ply is also called CDX or Elliotis. It's usually softwood and is about as cheap as you can get. I buy several hundred sheets of ply and chipboard per month. We make use of pretty much all the board and any off cuts are really only fit for fire wood, but I'm happy to let you have new sheets at what they cost me. I'll lose the VAT too if you want to pay cash. You'll need to collect though. To give you an idea, I pay 6.50 for 15mm chip board and 10 for 12mm OSB. 18mm CDX is about 16 per sheet.
PHP: lol or cheap ;-) Gilps I could be up for some of that. I have a tin roof so suffer a little from condensation especially with old concrete walls, hence I want to board out the walls. Also makes shelving easier. The bike loft is going so the 18mm is to make my own bike table rather than the walls...
