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Tongue and Groove Pine Porch Ceiling

Bob confers with framing contractor, Larry Landers, as Larry and a crew member install 1x8 v-groove pine on the ceiling of the new front porch at the Lake Cochituate ranch remodel. Bob Explains the cuts on the wood that give it an old fashioned look. To insure the porch ceiling will hold up to the New England weather, stainless steel ring nails are used. Larry shows Bob how to stagger and miter the boards for a more a better look.

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" -We're getting ready to put up our nice new board ceiling. Before we talk about how that's installed. Let's look at the material that's being used, 'cause this is a native pine milled right here in Massachusetts and you can see it's 1 by 8 and it's tongued and grooved. There is the tongue and there is the groove but it also has that slash cut and when you join them all together you end up with a V groove it called. It makes for a very very attractive ceiling an old-fashioned look and well Larry, the first question is how do you figure out where to start especially when you have a big space like this?"

" -Well, it's a 34 feet long so, a lot of times this is the existing houses you know. It might not be a straight as new construction would be, so, what we have to do is snap a blue chalk lines right here as this one, this is a reference line that were using and what we wanna do is make sure that the boards run parallel with the new front of the porch here and we wanna make sure that the first board is about equal to the last board so you don't end up with a little strip here and there on one time."

" -I hear you and you don't really have to scribe that first board to the contours of the house to that variation."

" -No. We gonna run a trim board underneath here on the whole other side, underneath."

" -Exactly, so that will take care of the crack. What kinds of nails are you using?"

" -Well, we're using Annular stainless steel ring nails with a decent head and they'll stand up well in the weather."

" -And they're being nailed vertically but those rings on the shank give them a lot of grip."

" -They really grip well, we're, because of the width of the board, we wanna put in 2 or 3 nails in each one."

" -Okay. Well let's watch."

" -You put up the second board now. You may wanna hold it Bob."

" -There you go. I think Kenny's got it here."

" -Okay."

" -Now, you have to be careful with that tongue on the lumber, you don't wanna bang it into place with your hammer."

" -Right."

" -So, you take a cut off, like Larry has there and you use that to make sure that it travels on to the tongue of the first board."

" -That's right, we made up a stat nail at this end first."

" -And traditionally, where you just have 1 x 4 narrow or tongue groove lumber, you can drive your nail through the tongue and that will hold it. But when anything is just as wide as this is you need face nail it."

" -That's right."

" -Now, it's interesting that you're, you're staggering this boards, you're using shorter ones and you're staying working in this corner of the porch Larry, why not just go across the whole width with the first board, kinda like a typewriter then come back and keep going across."

" -Well, it's more efficient for it, Bob, this way were at, in the same time and place right here, so may as well just move backwards in this area right now."

" -Okay."

" -Move out and work on the plank and move on."

" -Okay. So, you've actually put a miter cut on the end of the board."

" -Why not just attach it and butt it together."

" -Well, it's pine, it shrinks, and you won't see a gap with this miter that we put on each of the board."

" -That's a neat trick. Good thing to remember."

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