Plasterboarding garage

[Lincolnshire Ian]

Hiya

I have a chicken and egg conundrum.

We have a garage without doors, we want to install the doors, but the garage ceiling will need plasterboarding and plastering before we install the garage door. 

The garage door is on a six week delivery time. Would I be OK to plasterboard and plaster the ceiling on a garage without the door, and if I did this how long can I leave the garage without a door. 

Many thanks 

[Nickfromwales]

Use green moisture boards (unless you need to use pink fire rated?) and only skim it a few days before the door is due?

[Lincolnshire Ian]

11 hours ago, Nickfromwales said:

Use green moisture boards (unless you need to use pink fire rated?) and only skim it a few days before the door is due?

I need to use pink fire rated unfortunately. 

[Kelvin]

I wouldn’t. I gave some leftover sheets to a friend who stored them in a garage with no door. I told him not to but he reckoned it would be fine as it was just a short time. All ruined. 

[andyscotland]

If it's on the ceiling and relatively sheltered you might be ok, though I'd leave it as short a time as possible.

 

If you don't need access through the front during that time, could you temporarily board up the opening with some OSB or similar? A couple of sheets would be fairly cheap compared to the cost of redoing the ceiling.

 

If you do need access, maybe you could still put some boarding/protection as a "skirt" across the top section of the opening to prevent wind-driven rain etc from getting to the front edge of the plasterboard.

[Dunc]

My garage door installer placed 25mm battens under the joists to allow the door to be fitted now. He is confident that we will be able to take them out (one side at a time) and slide a double layer of plaster boards in later. As its the garage I think I'll just tape and fill, rather than skim.