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ThisOldCabinNJ
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2023 08:32am
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Hello Again Fellow Cabiners,
I'm looking for 'thinner' tongue and groove wood boards (thinner than 3/4"). Has anyone heard of such a thing? Do they exist or am I just crazy to think this?
TL/DR: Does anyone know of/have heard of a thinner tongue and groove board for wall paneling or ceiling? I'm looking for 1/2" or no more than 5/8" as most if not all that I have seen readily available come as 3/4" (1x stock). I've seen really really thin 5/16" boards in the past at my local box stores but have my reservations about using them.
After several years of doing all sorts of restoration work on my cabin, I'm nearing the start of finish work. Due to one reason or another I chose to put up stud-walls and was convinced by Dad to use 1/2" sheetrock as the wall surface because I do want to move into the cabin sometime this century. Im meticulous and move very slowly with my projects; i'm no longer a spring chicken and many times forget that.
Anyhow, traditional t&g boards (1x5 or 1x6) typically come 3/4" thick. The walls I put up require 1/2" thickness because I also had to installed fin/tube baseboard heat against these walls. At the time I didn't 'really consider 3/4" wall surfaces so the heat is set up for 1/2" wall board. Trying to get that extra 1/4" behind the heat enclosure isn't going to really work and I really don't want to pull out the heaters again and move the heat pipes another 1/4" off the wall.
Just thought I'd ask since you all have a lot of great input. I have considered milling the 3/4" boards at the base to fit behind the heat enclosure but that too is a lot of work as well as I'm not sure I will like the way it looks.
Thanks again for your input!!!
-al
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Brettny
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2023 09:47am
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Have you thought about doing something like a bead board panneling at 4' and lower? Like a chair rail.
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Steve_S
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2023 09:57am
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There are thinner T&G planks there but they are "cosmetic" and fairly poor quality in general, knot holes go through and the tongue is very weak. They are usually sold in shrink wrapped packages in big-box. They are also Crazy Expensive no less...
One of my local miller's does 1/2" Pine & White Cedar T&G and Lap but that is a local sawmill. depending on where you are that may be an option...
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2023 11:14am
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I put 3/4 (nom) t&g in our home living room years ago.
The existing hot air duct outlets were left in place, the bottom boards notched as needed and the facework tops attach to the boards. Nobody knows what is under the facework.
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ICC
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2023 12:53pm
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Quoting: ThisOldCabinNJ really thin 5/16" boards
Those can work well when applied over a base like drywall. No need to nail, use adhesive.
-izzy
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spencerin
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2023 10:39pm - Edited by: spencerin
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I'm pretty certain car siding is 1/2" or less thick. Will that not work?
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Fanman
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# Posted: 22 Dec 2023 06:28am
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Our neighbors used the prepackaged thin T&G boards in their cabin. It looks nice, except where they weren't very skillful installing them. I considered using them for our ceiling, but standard 3/4" thick 1x6's are considerably less expensive.
You could use the thicker boards and frame around the heaters.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 22 Dec 2023 10:57am
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I used those thin 'closet liner' type on our '83-'84, 12x24 build; they were a bit overpriced but it wasnt horrible enough to keep me from doing it. A bit dif approach, maybe, it was pretty much a 'post and beam' look inside with old barn beams on 4' ctr's, mudded plywood sheathing so it looked like plaster walls in between and I used the thin t&g sorta like a wainscoating down low. It was a good look, easy and well backed. The reflective quality and contrast of it all with the beams was great inside.
Btw, I had rigid styro outside the sheathing then the old barnboard for siding. We were able to keep it t-shirt warm with a small antique wood stove at -30*f. When we left it in 2020, 36yrs on, it was still going strong.
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DaveBell
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# Posted: 22 Dec 2023 05:10pm
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Bamboo flooring?
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