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Weekend Remodel: How to Install Wainscoting
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Shopping List
Supplies You Will Need
Painter's tape
¼inch plywood.
Get enough to cover the entire area of your wainscoting with the grain running vertically.
1x4 for the stiles
1x5 for the corner stiles
1x6 for the bottom rail.
1x8 for the top rail and baseboard.
Get enough to cover each wall twice.
Stool for the chair-rail cap.
Choose a profile deep enough to extend beyond the layered depth of the plywood, rail, and apron.
Casing for the apron
Panel molding to trim the panelsBase-cap molding
Shoe molding
Panel adhesive
2½-inch finishing nails to install the stiles, rails, baseboard, apron, and chair rail
1½-inch finishing nails to install the panel, base cap, and shoe moldings
Wood glue
Wood filler
Adhesive latex caulk.
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Tools List
Tools You Will Need
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utility knife
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pry bar
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chalk line or straightedge to mark cuts on the plywood
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4-foot level
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circular saw
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caulk gun
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stud finder
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nail gun
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miter saw
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flush-cut saw to back-cut existing moldings
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Speed Square
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chisel
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See more on Wainscoting:
• How to Install Beadboard Wainscoting
• Wainscoting Designs
• Custom Wainscoting for $4.49 a Square Foot
• All About Wainscoting
- Helpful Info
- Video: Weekend Remodel Video: How to Install Wainscoting
- Video: How to Choose Interior Molding
- Video: How to Build Wainscot From Stock Moldings
- Video: How to Cope a Joint for Crown Molding
- Video: How to Cut Miters
- Gallery: Tool Test: Compound Miter Saws
- Video: How to Cut Miters
- Gallery: Tool Test: Compound Miter Saws
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