Drywall had already revealed its many limitations: It’s hard to clean it swells, it rots, it serves as a medium for mold and mildew when it gets wet and, perhaps most concerning to the hockey players in the family, it’s easily damaged and fails miserably as a backstop for errant slapshots. The only remaining question was what material to use as a replacement wall and ceiling covering. Not every puck ended up in the net some even ended up behind the drywall itself.ĭecisions, Decisions “My garage needed an overhaul,” says Murphy. As Murphy stood in his garage and contemplated the damage, he realized the walls were long overdue for an intervention thanks to black scuff marks and holes in the wall created by his hockey-playing daughter’s determination to improve her shot. It was the result of leakage and moisture creep at some stage of his home’s 30-year-old life. So, with restorative insulation work already on the repair docket, Murphy started thinking about the unsightly mold issues he’d been living with in the very same garage, particularly around a window. Investigation revealed the cause as improper insulation, meaning there was no escaping an insulation retrofit in Jeff’s near future. It all started during a cold snap last February, when an ice damming problem emerged on the roof of Murphy’s Waterloo, Ontario home above the 624 square foot garage. As is often the case with renovations, it wasn’t just one issue that made Jeff Murphy realize his garage needed, as he puts it, “a complete overhaul.” Rather, it was a cascade of insulation issues, water damage, and wear and tear.
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