Now that the new roof is on the garage and it has gotten far too chilly
around here, I have started the onerous chore of cleaning out my garage and
putting up a bit of insulation, throwing away a bunch of perfectly good junk
for which I never expect to find another use (anybody want a box of assorted
hammer rivets, a collection of nice new sparkplug wire ends, an old Allied
reel-to-reel tape player?), and trying to make the garage a more pleasant
place to spend the odd hours I can piece together.
My question to the accumulated wisdom out there is in regards to garage
walls. I currently have a nice framed unattached garage with nothing on the
inner side of the studs. I think that drywall would be a foolish thing to
put up, but I am not sure what I should use.
I would like to be able to heat the place while working out there, too. I
have a kerosene-fired tornado heater which is too loud to hear yourself
think while it is running. It would also be nice to be able to keep the
place above freezing so that condensation is less of a problem and the tools
aren't as cold and miserable.
Sometime along the way I want to run a natural gas feed out to the garage
along with a heftier electrical feed so as to be able to run more equipment
out there as well as running a few Cat5 cables out there to pipe the
telephone line, the feed for the opener, and such-like over. Anything else
as long as I am dreaming?
Thanks for the help and suggestions!
David Lieb
More RWAs than garage space
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