How To Install Shiplap Walls

When you reach the top of the wall you may have to rip the last.

How to install shiplap walls. How to install shiplap using plywood. Continue installing shiplap up the wall. Divide the height of the wall by the width of the shiplap boards. The extra material may come in handy.

You can do this using a hammer a compressed air nail gun or a screw gun. Nail or screw the shiplap to the wall. Use 2 in 5 1 cm nails or screws to ensure that the nail will pass through the shiplap and deep into the studs. You can use construction adhesive if installing on ceilings or over other surfaces in good condition just finish nail in place to hold the pieces while the adhesive dries.

This video will guide you through putting up shiplap on a wall which i did in our master bedroom. Shiplap installation after assembling our supplies we started with the back wall first. Preparing the wall for shiplap. Once at home again and ready to work use a stud finder and a pencil to mark the studs on your wall.

How to install shiplap shiplap planks can be fastened to walls either vertically or horizontally. Plywood comes in 4 by 8 foot sheets 32 square feet so if you want to cover a 10 by 10 foot wall you ll need 100 square feet of wood to cover it completely so you d buy four sheets. We put quarter inch spacers on the floor to lift the lowest board up so there would still be ventilation behind the paneling. Find the square foot of the wall you re covering by multiplying the length of the wall by its height.

Add 10 percent to your total to account for any waste. Mark across the wall at a few heights so you know where the studs are as you work your way across and down the wall installing the shiplap. The pine shiplap has a lovely warm hue which would be nice for a mountain retreat or country shed but i wanted pure white walls. Simply nail through drywall directly into wall studs.

Measure cut and install shiplap for the rest of the rows in the same manner. For each method drive two 2 in 5 1 cm nails or screws straight through the board and into the center of each stud.