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I’ve been approached by a customer who wants me to finish his garage with smooth coated and painted dry wall. The concern that I have here is that it will be heated in the winter and will be used day to day for vehicle storage. Temperatures here in Minnesota can run for a solid two months below zero. The problem I visualize is when that 16′ door opens that cold weather will flood the garage and introduce itself to the 40-50 degree finished walls inside. It’s this moment where I see the individual sheets contract and split at the seams. This happened to me once. A floor layer left a door unlatched on a Friday night at a new house. Over the weekend an Alberta clipper made its way thru. Monday morning I walked in to see the 19′ ceiling had split at every seam. I’m wondering if anyone out there has a method for using dry wall in a cold climate garage.
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I'm in Alberta and many of the garages up here are drywalled. Heated, unheated, attached or detached. Doesn't seem to matter. The drywall seems to hold up just fine as long as it is installed and finished and allowed to dry at an appropriate temperature. Usually done in the summer of course.
Mine is attached, unheated and drywalled.
Scott
*all the attached garages here have either drywall or skim-coat plaster over blueboard..heated or unheated..no thermal shock.. it's gypsum.... no splits..something else is moving... not the gypsum..
*If you're really worried about it, you could always use those Trim-tex expansion beads on the seams. Kind of a cool look, if that's okay with the customer, and will handle SOME expansion and so on.
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I've been approached by a customer who wants me to finish his garage with smooth coated and painted dry wall. The concern that I have here is that it will be heated in the winter and will be used day to day for vehicle storage. Temperatures here in Minnesota can run for a solid two months below zero. The problem I visualize is when that 16' door opens that cold weather will flood the garage and introduce itself to the 40-50 degree finished walls inside. It's this moment where I see the individual sheets contract and split at the seams. This happened to me once. A floor layer left a door unlatched on a Friday night at a new house. Over the weekend an Alberta clipper made its way thru. Monday morning I walked in to see the 19' ceiling had split at every seam. I'm wondering if anyone out there has a method for using dry wall in a cold climate garage.