Thats what I did in our garage in the Vancouver area. Stayed that way one Winter, then I decided that for the minimal cost of sheetrock, I might as well finish the job. Once the rock was up, I added a work bench and several storage cabinets against the wall.
R
Good God. You're lucky you were not killed. I just can not see how anyone could survive 40 square feet of visqueen falling on them . Just be thankful you did not put duct tape up there too. That surely would have added enough weight to crush an elephant. Of course only Republicans keep elephants in their garage and since I dont know what political party you belong, this statement may not pertain :^)
According to Bob :
I live in Ottawa, and have a detached oversized double garage. It gets pretty cold here.
The walls and ceiling were fiberglass and vapor barrier, no drywall.
It stayed this way for almost 20 years, half of which was when we owned it.
We don't park cars in it (much), it's mostly a work shop (it's heated when I need it). While condensation was occasionally a problem, it went away completely when when we had a floor poured (it was originally bare gravel) and made sure that the attic ventilation worked.
Despite what others have suggested, the vapor barrier never got damaged. Until...
About five years ago, I finally got around to drywalling the walls. I started with the idea of just taping it, but despite "it's just a garage", it ended up being completely done. By the time I was finished, I was pretty good at it. Ceilings were still vapour barrier and fiberglass.
Now the "until": 20+ years of exposure to sunlight coming through the windows embrittled the vapour barrier on the ceiling to the point that one very cold night about 40 square feet of it "shattered" into strips...
Managed to patch it (had to drop ceiling lathe to do it), and covered that area with drywall. Still need to do the rest of the ceiling.
Drywalling is easy. There's no real reason not to do it. But I have an awful amount of stuff to move before I can finished the ceiling (and the bathroom has been demolished and is higher priority...)
=============== My one garage houses 2 "summer" cars....they are stored over the winter...and on the second floor of this garage is my woodshop....which means I have this building heated as I practically live out there in the winter...and I do not use the cars...
The 2 regular sized garage doors were a major source of heat loss UNTIL I picked up a couple of "used" hot tub covers for free a few years ago... now I just unfold the hot tub covers and cover the doors on the outside of the garage... Honestly it cut my heating bills big time... cost was about 10 bucks for hardware to hold the covers in place.... and to be honest it really looks pretty good...not tacky lol
Bob G.
According to :
Snicker ;-)
I was more worried about the unfaced fiberglass batts clobbering my cranium ;-)
But they didn't fall.
Actually, it did have a real consequence. Since the vapor barrier was no longer functioning and slightly warmer air rising through the fiberglass hitting the roof sheathing (especially when the heaters were on of course), I had severe ice dams on that section of the eaves and the very beginnings of water staining (precursor to rot) of the roof structure.
Once I realized that, replacing the barrier and protecting it against any more UV deterioration became a rather high priority.
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