Thank you so much for these videos! My 60 year old mother and I (33yrs old) were able to put up recessed panel wainscoting in her home ourselves by following your videos. Saved us so much money not having to hire a carpenter. Thank you again
I originally watched this series 2 years ago and my husband and I are reviewing it because we are wainscoting our powder room. Studying up and planning our dimensions. Thank you for the very detailed explanation on how to do the spacing. 🙏
I watch a lot of your videos and just wanted to say thanks. I was overwhelmed by starting my first project in the house and this really helped me. Definitely led me to the starting point.
I appreciate the comments on protecting the floor. When I built my house, the trades used my brand new deck like a workshop and didn't protect my new wood floor after it was installed. Caused lots of complaints by me and lots of repairs by my GC.
I had watched to video a few months ago and thought I knew what I was doing until it came time to size my panels. I was having a tough time making my panel sizes work out. Thankfully I was able to re-watch the video and now I'm wainscoting like a pro!! Thanks again for the content! Keep up the good work!
what you are teaching makes perfect sense. i didnt think about it from your perspective i just always approached it by finding the center and going left and right from there making marks with the stiles as you did makes it fast and easy. Thanks Sifu!!!!!!!
Great video , yep trick the eye best tip yet - I do this all the time with math and reveals - fence, decks, flooring , drywall, split the difference to come close as possible to a mirror image or a reveal that tricks you to think it's same. Hard to see a inch or 2 over a span of 10ft etc etc. 👍
Well explained. The thought process brings the concept to reality. Your method is how I’ve approached all trim ideas. Balance is key to beauty and letting the odd one be it’s own thing. One has to let the creativity flow.
Absolutely incredible video. I didn’t get what you were saying about the shortest wall determining the panels until you did the first large wall. Excellent method. Thank you!
Dude you Rock! As a teacher you are suppose to teach so everyone/all your students can understand because obviously the smart ones/experience ones will get it and you achieved that in your video . . . well done.
Richard may I make a suggestion. Get a small white board and use erasable markers for your demos. It will be easier to focus on and make it stand out so that we can see the figures. Your content is great.
Awesome. Always wondered how this was calculated. Pretty simple really, because of the great explanation. The fluid dimensions based on what the eye will tolerate says it all. Thanks
Nice to see you go over the math I laid out in a comment from the other video. I think seeing it put on the wall will really help people understand. Great job!
You definitely make the best videos and easily understood tutorials around. I've been following you for a few years and have watched all your videos multiple times. For me personally, it's all about learning different ways to do job faster and more efficiently. Thanks again! (Elliot from MinneSNOWta)
Thanks for breaking this down, it's something that is never seen in England so it's great to see how you work out the spacing..great work and vids..thank you.
Really like watching you channel, my only critique would be. When your doing the panels and the outlet doesn’t layout in the center get an electrician to cut the drywall put a splice kit and a cut in box to get that thing centered, It looks much cleaner. 👍🏻
Was looking through your videos to get an idea for my front door casing/trim and found a link for t-shirts. Whatttt?! Lol. Just placed an order for one. Can’t wait to receive it!
had a great time a couple years ago learning wainscoting. couple differences but like ya say its all a design preference at end of day. very true ya eye will pick up what the wall wants ya to know :) very thorough explanation great work!!!
I love the look of this type wainscoting but the top of all horizontal pieces can be a huge dust-collector which was a problem in the Desert area I lived most of my life in. You've created another slow, easy-to-follow video. Watching your videos is a calming thing to do...kind of a Carpenter;s Meditation.
Yep- this is exactly how I did my house; the wall determines the panel size. The eye cannot decipher an inch or two changing direction. There’s always an odd wall but mine turned out stunning
Thank you for doing this series! It is so helpful! I’m planning on doing wainscoting in my dining room but have a air vent next to a outlet. Can wait to see how you work around obstacles! I hope you and your family have a very happy New Year!
Love your wainscot tutorials. Would you have any advice for joints over long runs. I am contemplating a straight run using your method that is about 12m long including a stair case. How would you approach joining the backing boards? Would you make sure to hide the seams behind the uprights? Or have you a better way?
Sorry, forgot to SMACK the 👍🏻 Button during stream. Liked how you were able to chat w/ us during the vid as well, pretty cool. Like said, REALLY liked this vid & the SERIES was awesome & full of knowledge, that can help ANYONE; regardless of how long in the biz (cuz, can always learn something new, since everyone has own “techniques”). Have a job coming up in doctors office that will be installing chair rails & wainscoting in 2 diff rooms, & your vids have helped me w/ ideas & tips tricks.... Happy New Year ✌🏼
I have found that whenever building anything repetitive even if it is not commonly visible (Ex: Wall switch height), pick your worst case scenario and make all others match it. Consistency indicates planning and professionalism!
Brother thank you. I know you're in the middle of your big reno bid, just had a quick question. I have variable wall widths and I am hanging picture frame molding. No panels or boards. My question is do I keepu panel widths consistent and change the gap/widths between the boxes or do I change the widths of the boxes to keep the gaps consistent?
Hi Richard I really enjoy watching your videos. I'm in New Zealand and i don't know if we would ever do wainscot, but am fascinated by what you do. Different countries different styles I guess. The way I divide things up is "In and Over" or (over an in) you measure from the left side of your timber to the left side of your last timber, you take that measurement and divide it up by how much you want ( 3 spaces, 4 spaces etc) what ever that measurement is, is the distance for setting out from left side of timber to left side of timber so on and so on. Not sure if you use that system? But you don't need to subtract timber widths and it doesn't matter what width the timber is as long as it's all the same.
I am doing wainscot over a textured wall and want to use 1/2” 4x8 MDF panels for smooth reveal. Would you place these panels on the wall before installing the wainscot, or cut them out once you have the final wainscot panel dimensions?
Thanks Richard. Really appreciate the videos! What about a hallway? Would you try to keep the layout the same on both sides so that the stiles are directly across from each other? Seems like a tricky one with doors and corners occurring at different locations on both sides.
This is what I’m wondering also, in my lounge room I have a door in the middle but it’s off centre, I wonder if I treat it as 2 different walls or accept a weird bit on the end, I’m leaning towards weird bit like he mentioned
Jonath Champ - Right, I’d like to see how he handles the windows which are off-balance to the wall and how to handle an electrical outlet that doesn’t center in the stile. Great series!
So the wall with the window will have differently spaced panels? The 2 under the window were determined by the window size - then whatever you decide to the left of the window will be based on what you did for the 4 panel wall?
How do you prevent a gap between the top rail or chair molding and the wall when the wall isn’t flat? Or how do you fill the gap? When installing crown molding in my home, I had a few shorter walls (about 6 feet) that had a 1/4” gap between the middle of the wall and the pine molding since that short of a piece of pine won’t flex to the curve of the wall like MDF might.
This series has been great and very timely. I’ve done a fair amount of work around the house but I’m debating if this is a project that is too artistic for me. What is a fair ballpark price to have a pro do a job like this in the Midwest for recessed panels on a 16 x 12 room vs an estimated DIY cost for materials. There’s certainly the pride of doing it myself but also the work of a true craftsman is of value. I’m trying to get a feel for where to make that trade.
I have a room with Carpet and existing Base Board, whatz the best way to proceed... Do I remove Base and start over?Your Videos are Amazing, Love the Quality you always Show...
Will you be putting 1/8" or 1/4" board to the walls like i seen in your older videos or will you mount the styles and rails right to the wall. my other question is how do you end the style on a wall that your not going to wrap the wainscoting around like an opening to another room? Thanks I look forward to seeing your videos
Epic video series man, looking forward seeing next one! Do you think laying out the thin picture framing on the walls is the same process as the wider wainscot?
Wainscot = ocd nightmare. just spent the last 3 hours trying to figure out the spacing in a room, it has 4 doorways! so there are 3 walls that could be starting points, each are a different size of small! to try and match a banquette bench that is also that wainscot style XD so on youtube now researching some more so feel a bit more sane now watching someone else figuring this out haha
