How to nail Beadboard
How to Install Beadboard or Wainscoting
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hi I'm Nils and today I'm going to show
you how to use some put some wainscoting
or feed board back we're going to do a
fairly inexpensive job here I've got a
half a sheet here of beadboard
from Home Depot or Lowe's these run
about twenty-one dollars a sheet four by
eight and you can have them cut it at
the store which makes a lot easier to
transport and you can get it to the size
you want we decided in our bathrooms to
go ahead and do four foot sections so we
just had them cut it in half and there's
a few options here of how you want to go
about this so one thing to keep in mind
is whether or not you have your
baseboard already installed and if you
want to leave installed so down here we
decided just to leave this installed and
we're going to put the wainscoting right
up to the top over it like so and then
we'll put you're going to want to get
some sort of molding to put over top of
it so I went ahead and purchased some
and we'll show that in a little bit here
that's going to sit right over top of
this and cover up the top so a couple
things to keep in mind when you're
installing this one is they're cut so
that the a four by eight sheets are a
supplies so that you can have the ends
match up with one another so you've got
a bead here no bead here and on this end
there's a bead so my next cut that I'm
going to make to get to the rest of the
wall here is starting from this end of
the next panel so I've got my
measurements here I know how long this
needs to be right here and so I'm going
to go ahead and use my table saw or a
skill saw to cut that making sure if you
use a skill so I use a straight edge to
line it up and everything so we'll go
ahead and do that part now okay so when
it comes time to cut this I'm going to
go with a guide and a skill saw so the
easiest way to do this is just to find
out what your measurement is from the
edge of your blade to the guide to the
edge of your fence here on your skill
saw in my case it's one and three
sixteenths and I know I need to make an
eight and a quarter inch cut so I'm
going to add those two together and man
I'm bad at math so let's see here
to be just shy of nine and a half so
ninety seven sixteenths okay so I want
measure over ninety seven sixteenths and
that's where my got need to be so right
there and I'm gonna want to mark this
and measure it with the background a
light as well so let me draw a nice
straight line I just realized I did
something backwards here so I did put it
the right way so this is the piece
that's going to go up against the
existing board but I forgot we should
always cut this upside down when you're
cutting through wood the blade cuts
cleaner on the bottom side then the top
for some reason because of the rotation
I guess so I've got a little bit of a
wonky edge here so I'm probably gonna
have to sand that and get that painted I
mean the whole thing is going to get
painted anyway so hopefully it'll be
alright but I'm gonna have to sand that
down but let's go and see how it fits
okay so we've got our next panel cut
here and now it's time to go ahead and
tack this stuff in so we're going to
start by making sure this is flush up
against the wall on the right side and
our baseboard as well and I'm going to
start down here so I've got a brad
nailer hooked up to our compressor and
there are just one-inch Brad's in here
these are pretty cheap you can also do
this by hand with just finished nails as
well if you have a compressor and a brad
nailer that makes it a lot easier so
we're going to just drive some nails
right in right in the bottom there now
if you're doing baseboard on top of the
wainscoting it doesn't really matter
that much where you put the nails in as
long as they're down low because you'll
be covering the whole thing up in my
case all of the Brad's will be exposed
so I'm going to have to putty over them
and paint them anyway so I'm just going
to put them where they make sense okay
take a pop now on top if you're covering
this up with chair rail just make sure
you get it within the area that's going
to be covered up then you might want to
do some down the side here depending on
how well you're going to be able to
cover this up and now I'm going to go
ahead and put this new piece in
making sure that I've got my joints
tightly together
okay so that's one section I'll getting
out silicone over the holes and then
we've got one piece of one wall done
here all right so I finished marking and
cutting my pieces to fit in the bathroom
so I've got one that's going to fit
around the counter here and again I just
used a jigsaw and the skill saw to make
the cuts there and then the bigger piece
it was a little more complicated
I had to fit around the pipe and then
I've also got the to fit around the
countertop over there so we're going to
go ahead and give these things a try see
how they fit and hopefully fits in snug
okay so this came out fortunately pretty
nicely so I fitted it around the tube
down here and actually I want to blow
off that dust that's down there because
that's just going to get in the way nope
I want to make sure in this case it's
behind the little trim ring and I think
I got pretty lucky this one fits really
nicely right around you can see the
paint there right around where the
vanity is going to go in the countertop
and so now with this in place I'm ready
to tack it in okay so that one's good
and I'm going to do the rest of the
pieces around here making sure to match
up the joints as best as I can and then
we'll be ready to do the trim up top all
right so we finished up cutting all the
different panels of beadboard and now
I've got all of them put in except for
this last one here which I'll tack in I
had put it in once and had to take it
out and luckily they come out fairly
easily and then we went ahead and cut
the trim and we decided to go with a
fairly short trim not like a full chair
rail has a thicker bottom on it so that
we can just position it right on top
here and it covers up the top nicely and
in this case we're not going to put it
over top of the beadboard just on top of
it
and then we'll get this guy in oh there
we go okay and I'll tack that one in and
then I've already also put in place at
least the one on on this back wall here
so with those in or just being held in
place at least right now go ahead and
tack these in okay so we have now put in
all of the paneling we've got our chair
rail or our molding in there as well
and everything came out pretty good I
went ahead and coughed all along the top
of the rail the corners
anywhere where any water might seep in
where their joints anything like that so
we haven't painted yet we're about to
paint but everything so far is looking
pretty good and this side as well we
went ahead and tapped all the nails all
the way in and then also made sure to
put the use the clock so that it covers
up nail holes and anything like that so
we'll put our coat of paint on there a
couple coats and then we should be all
set
you
