How to Install Tongue and Groove Paneling Part 1

Popular throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a wall or wood paneling tongue and groove paneling is still used widely today to create a rustic, traditional, or even a retro look at home. Carpentry joinery using materials with a tongue and groove, such as those found in the hardwood flooring, you will find the installation easy, and requires only simple tools.

Materials will need to:



* Tape measure

* Tongue and groove paneling

* Circular Saw

* Panorama

* Nail

* Hammer

* Pull up bar

* Completion of the pruning



Step 1 - Measuring your articles



Altimetry and display walls that you want to cover, remember that you can use the tongue and groove paneling to cover the full height of the wall even if you wish to be. After measuring the space for snapshots, you want to buy about 5 percent more of material you plan to use, to allow for errors and damage. Wall paneling product is designed, which is sold in most hardware stores. Alternately, you can also use the tongue and groove hardwood flooring materials if you prefer the look or the articles that the floors are made of materials carpentry.

Step 2 - preparation of materials for your walls



Before you begin paneling, stack your plates in the room where he was scheduled to be used, leave them there at least 2-3 days (up to a week is even better). This is the wood to adapt to the conditions which will be maintained, and the temperature, humidity, and in particular, and allows the moisture in the panels to achieve stability. This adaptation allows the wood to shrink or expand the course, before you install it, and gaps prevented from shrinking, warping or puckering once it is paintings on the wall.



When paneling vertically, you will need most likely to develop the first time horizontal furring strips, using nails or adhesive, to give something to adhere to plates. If you choose to install paneling Special horizontally or diagonally, but it is not necessary fur, as long as the panels will cross the buttons. And without furring strips and vertical panels do not have what could be nailed down. If you intend on the walls of the panel is not yet complete, the best thing to do is to first install a layer of drywall of plywood on the buttons. It is always better at the plate on a flat surface of the drywall directly over the buttons. Provides a more solid and drywall to support the panels themselves. But even then, and will require the installation of panels vertical furring strips. Once the surface fitting, bolt or tape that can be attached to your paintings, and you're ready to move forward.



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