How to Install Beadboard Wainscoting

By: Mark Feirer and Thomas Baker, This Old House magazine

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Supplies You Will Need

1. BEADBOARD WAINSCOTING

2. CONSTRUCTION ADHESIVE

3. CAP RAIL
pine or fir 1x2

4. OGEE MOLDING

5. BASEBOARD MOLDING

6. CAP MOLDING

7. SHOE MOLDING

8. FINNISHING NAILS
4d and 6d

9. 3/4-INCH BRADS
to attach ogee molding to underside of cap rail

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Tools List
Tools You Will Need
- Drill/driver and assorted drill bits
- Levels,
  2 ft. and 4 ft.
- Compass,
  for scribing
- Coping saw
- Biscuit joiner
- Utility knife
- Nail set
- Caulking gun
- Jigsaw
- Combination square
- Tape measure
- Block plane
- Brad nailer
- Hammer,
  16 oz.
- Table saw
- Power miter saw
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Introduction
Overview
Steps:
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10. Attach moldings

As with cap rails, start between inside corners.

Secure ogee molding to the underside of the cap with Â¾-inch brads. (Tom easily pushes them in with a hand-held brad driver.) At outside corners, join moldings with miters. On inside corners, use cope joints, which stay tight as wood moves.

Follow the same steps to install shoe molding against floor.

Tip: Before coping, make relief cuts into the mitered end to reduce the chance that the blade will wander.