Garage cladding with OSB plates

There are many types of finishing work, but one of the simplest and cheapest is OSB panel finishing. With the help of this material, you can create a rather warm and cozy room, since it consists of tightly compressed wood shavings, glued together with synthetic wax and boric acid. Sheets come in different thicknesses, which vary from 6 to 25 mm, which greatly simplifies the cladding of rooms. The thinnest (6-12 mm) are fixed to the ceiling, panels from 12 to 18 mm are taken for walls, and panels from 18 to 25 mm are spread on the floor.

This finishing material has a lot of advantages:

• covering the garage with OSB plates will add elegance, warmth and comfort to the room;
• when pre-painting or opening with varnish, the material does not deteriorate from moisture;
• sheets are easy to process, cut and paint, do not crumble;
• inexpensive material has soundproofing and heat-insulating properties;
• panels are resistant to fungi;
• samples labeled "Eco" or Green are absolutely safe for human health.

There are practically no downsides to this material. When protected from moisture and direct sunlight, as well as rodents, wood-based panels have virtually unlimited lifespan.

To sew up the ceiling with slabs, you need a frame. It can be assembled from wooden beams or metal profiles.

To assemble a metal box, you need to screw the wall UD profile around the perimeter using a level, then disperse our base with an interval of 60 cm and fix it. Then we cut the CD-profile with scissors for metal or a grinder and attach it to the base using cross-shaped connectors, forming a grid of squares. For ceilings with a large area, you can use mounting U-shapes or a building corner, cut with your own hands from a CD profile and twisted with self-tapping bugs. When they are distributed inside the box, the sagging is extinguished, and the body is given greater strength.

We distribute the beams with an interval of 60 cm. The lattice is assembled in a similar way, but instead of cross-shaped connectors, furniture corners are used for stitching wood. To avoid sagging of the beams, the fasteners are scattered around the perimeter of the ceiling.

When decorating a room with panels, the wall frame is first assembled. The most protruding part of the wall is selected as the zero point, and the entire box is driven along it into one plane. Alignment is carried out using a level. After that, the assembly of the frame of the structure begins, and then everything is sewn up with chipboards.

The jointing tape is divided into pieces of the required size and fixed with a finishing putty at the joints. Next, you need to prime the seams, apply a thin layer of finishing putty, clean with fine-grained sandpaper to create a smooth and perfectly flat surface and paint over in several layers.

When working with sheets, it is worth pre-covering one side in several layers with waterproofing or varnish in order to avoid saturation of the material with moisture and its destruction. Plates are attached with the painted side to the frame; waterproofing should also be applied to the box.

To increase the thermal insulation, the frame will be filled with insulation, preferably glass wool. This will increase the heat transfer of the entire structure and protect it from destruction by rodents. All calculations should be written down in a notebook so that in the future there will be no difficulties with the installation of lighting.

For how to sheathe the garage ceiling with OSB plates, see the next video.