Re: Heating Garage

[Tim.Mullen@trw.com (Tim Mullen)]

Trevor Boicey wrote:
> 
> Art Pfenninger wrote:
> >
> > Also make the garage fire resistant. Attached garages must 
> > by code be drywalled, at least in NY.
> 
>   I guess it's worth looking up in your local code. However,
> if your house came from the builder with open studs (as did
> mine) I guess that means you don't need them to be drywalled
> when you are done either.

Some locations require that the portions of the walls shared
between the attached garage and the house must be "finished" (as
a means of slowing the spread of fire).  I've lived in a few
houses where the back and part of one side of the garage was
finished, and the rest was open studs...

Tim Mullen