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l (Miko the pooch) wrote:

I'd like to move the lathe from the garage to the basement but I need to
finish the walls first. I don't look forward to putting up drywall though.
For one thing it I'd need to bring it down through a fairly narrow stairway.
Are there other cheap alternatives to drywall that would work relatively
well in a basement shop?

Well, depends on cheap, and may be affected (if you care) by local
codes. Plain old cheap pine boards work well and pass most codes, but
even if you can find em cheap, they cost a bit more than drywall last
time I compared the two. OSB is not loved by most codes, and costs the
earth these days anyway for no obvious reason. If you don't care how the
joints look, you can cut drywall down before moving it. Cementboard
comes in smaller panels (3x5) and takes impacts and water better, but is
more costly per square foot. Pegboard is traditional, though I don't
know how it fares with modern codes. Full-on old-fashioned plaster is
probably cheap if you provide the labor and can stand the mess.

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