Is oriented strand board (OSB) good for interior wall surfaces in the garage Im building?
I’ve read how it will make the space dark, but I plan to install lots of fluorescent lights. A: I built a workshop that was covered with OSB on the inside, and I ended up drywalling all interior surfaces, then painting them white. Even with lots of lights, the place felt dark before and wonderfully light after painting. If you have your heart set on OSB, give it try. Q: What type of finished flooring do you recommend for the basement of my 100-year-old house? Linoleum, porcelain, tile, laminate? The floors are bare concrete now and we’re creating a one-bedroom apartment. A: I’ve never seen a century home with a concrete basement floor flat enough to support a finished floor properly, so I expect you’ll have to start by levelling what’s there now. If there are small dips and valleys (15 millimetres deep or less), self-levelling flooring compound is an effective choice. It’s a powder you mix with water into a flowable slurry that seeks its own level after you pour it on. If you’ve got de
