Wooden wall cladding (bathroom)

[mac10]

Thankyou for all the advice Im going to be doing this in about 2 weeks so lets hope all goes well.

 

[big-all]

ok some final tips
cladding will still go on and look ok if you have about a 4 or 5mm deviation in the wall if its anymore best to reduce the batton size [or trench the wall] or pack out at that point [no nails can pack out about 6mm if you blob it on


if you have an internal corner with one wall vertical and one thats not quite vertical
aim to fit the vertical wall into the corner first then if your using 9 or 12mm quad to cover you wont have to scribe the board in unless the wall is more than about 20mm out as the quad will cover it

and the other board will of course butt up nicely cos the wall your butting up to is vertical

if your doing a shelve on top and it meets on a corner dowel or biscuit the butt edges together for support

if you dont have either take 2x 50mm nails drill a hole 27mm deep and 0.5mm SMALLER than the nail shank 12mm from the front and back edges

snip off the nail head lay the shelve flat on the floor with a strait edge at the back edge to guide the other shelve onto the nails
when marked carefully drill out the holes and insert

if you are a little bit out [say 3mm]drill out the holes one side and pump in wood glue [or no nails] just before assembly a block off wood on top of the joint one underneath and clamp

think of anything else will add later


good luck big all

 

[davidd2011]

Hi,

Hey, I've seen this done on a diy show...
If the walls of the bathroom are dry wall or plaster board. you can use liquid nails to hold the cladding on. The clading used in bathroom was exterria clading for a house. So it was already sealed and ready to paint.

They did put sealer at the floor level and and top of the cladding to make sure no moisture got in underneath and /or from the top.. Looked fantastic, when finished.

Blick or concrete walls, a little trick... behind each of the boards. drill a 5 mm hole put in a plastic or timber plug. about every 400 mm.. Put screw / mail through cladding into plug/ timber dowl. This is allot of drilling and plugging. hard way of doing it if you have concrete or brick walls in bathroom. Or do battons about every 500mm..