Accent your ceiling with the natural beauty of bamboo.
Bamboo is an attractive, affordable and sustainable building material option for homeowners. While tongue and groove bamboo is typically installed on floors, it can go on ceilings to accent the often overlooked feature within the room. You install it the same way you would on a floor with the exception that you are nailing it to ceiling joists rather than floor joists. Pine is a traditional material for covering ceilings in wood but the beauty and sustainability of bamboo makes is an attractive contemporary ceiling covering.
Instructions
1. Slide the stud finder along the ceiling and mark the location of the framing boards with a pencil. Framing boards in ceilings are called joists. You will install the bamboo flooring boards perpendicular to the direction that the joists run.
2. Hold a flooring board with the grooved edge of the board against the wall. Start on a wall where you can orient the boards perpendicular to the direction of the joists. This will allow you to nail through the tongues on the edges of the boards into the joists along the entire length of the boards.
3. Hammer 4-d through the tongue of the first board into each joist along its length. Hammer 4-d the edge nearest the wall approximately 1/4-inch away from the wall to secure it to the wall. This is called face nailing.
4. Slide the grooved side of a second board over the tongue of the first board. Hammer 4-d finish nails through the tongue of the second board at each joist to secure it in place. The opposing edge will be held in place by the tongue and groove so you will not need to face nail it. Continue installing boards in this manner until you come to the last board.
5. Measure the distance from the edge of the second to last board to the wall using a tape measure. If it is less than the width of the boards, you will need to cut it lengthwise to the measured space. Mark the measurement on the board with a pencil.
6. Adjust the table saw fence to cut the width required for the last board. Lay the board flat on the table of the saw with the tongue edge of the board oriented on the saw so that it will be the waste edge. In other words, you will need to cut off the tongue as the waste side of the board. Turn the saw on and guide the board through the saw to cut it to width. Turn the saw off once the cut has been completed.
7. Fit the groove of the board over the tongue of the second-to-last board and slide the into place. Face nail the wall edge of the last board into place. Set the face-nailed nails on the edges of the starting and finishing walls with a nail set.
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