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    Default Lining a shed with 7mm ply....will it suffice?

    I have read a lot of the other threads on this forum regarding what best to line a shed with. Most agree some (~12mm) plywood, yellowtongue or melamine would be good choices.

    Thing is, I live in a really remote location, so it's slim pickings when it comes to building materials and at the moment none of these are available here, and I could be waiting 3+ months before any are.

    There is, however, a stack of 7mm non-structural plywood sheets at a fairly reasonable price.

    Would this work ok for lining a wood working shed do you think? What would be the major draw-backs?
    ....Do I really need to wait it out for something thicker?

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    I lined mine with 3 ply and haven't found it to be a problem. If I were you and wanted to hang stuff off it I would put another sheet against the lining doubling the thickness and use french cleats. There are a couple of recent threads on this and some photos of my french cleat board in one of them.
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    That will be more than OK so long as you are not intending to hang or attach anything to it. Perhaps give consideration to some framing behind where you're looking to put shelves etc...

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    So if I were to hold out for 12mm, the difference would be that I can pretty much hang and mount whatever directly to it?

    Being a woodwork shed I'm going to be hanging a lot of tools on the walls, adding plenty of shelves, cupboards etc.

    With this in mind, do you think I really should go thicker?

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    If you can pick up studs for your French cleats or other fixtures the lining material thickness and type is irrelevant
    If you think you will be wanting more freedom of choice for fixing points and the items are heavy then a thicker material might work better for you.

    To keep this all in context, all of your kitchen joinery and other fixtures in a house rely on finding studs through plasterboard and there are wall anchors for plasterboard only fixing that will support 15 kg

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    Quote Originally Posted by grapeseed View Post
    So if I were to hold out for 12mm, the difference would be that I can pretty much hang and mount whatever directly to it?

    Being a woodwork shed I'm going to be hanging a lot of tools on the walls, adding plenty of shelves, cupboards etc.

    With this in mind, do you think I really should go thicker?
    Yep, especially if for shelves and cupboards.

    Alternatively if you know where they are, you can always hang things from more substantial structures behind the ply. On the gyprock clad section of my shed I made sure I marked where the wall purlins and studs were located and then mounted pegboard, shelves etc to those. In one place where I wanted to hang stuff directly I ended up laying 12mm ply sheets over the gyprock.

    So you could just line the whole thing in 3 ply and then lay over sheets of thicker ply just where you need it.

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    Mark all the stud centres on the floor or even on the sheets being used for lining so it is easy to locate them for when you need to hang things. 7mm will be OK and as I said put another 7mm over it for fixing. The sheet I put over the three ply was itself hung from a french cleat as the thre ply was never going to be enough. Photos are in one of the other threads I mentioned.
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    Fair enough that all makes sense.
    Picked up a stack of 7mm sheets today )

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    if the 7mm is cheap enough, you could always just double up.
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    If the 7mm is cheap enough you could just double up in a wide strip between 1,000mm and 2,200mm above the ground. Anything above or below that could be serviced by a french cleat.
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