Faux Shiplap Wall - comparing various material options

hi YouTube friends this is Brad today I want to show you the three different types of materials that I have personally used in my home for full shiplap I want to tell you some of the advantages some of the disadvantages of all three of the materials to help you decide which material is best for your home project let's get started I use quarter-inch plywood half-inch plywood I also used MDF board which is medium density fiberboard my favorite is quarter inch plywood I'm going to start by showing you that and then we'll move to the other two okay so we're in our half bath and this is the quarter inch plywood of course the quarter inch plywood is going to cost less money that's a definite advantage the other thing is that it's much lighter to work with especially if you're handling it on your own I like to look at the quarter inch because you can see a little bit of the drywall between the pieces of shiplap a lot of people will start at the bottom and use nickels to space and work up my recommendation is to start at the top and work down it's a little bit harder you probably are going to have to have a second person but you're going to get a better look because when you look at the wall your eyes are going to go to the wall or towards the top they're not really going to look at the bottom so at the bottom you're gonna have a shorter piece whatever that might end up but at the top they're gonna be the same going down preference but that's my recommendation the other thing is I want to tell you is I used 18 gauge brad nails I used a nail gun and you could maybe use like a 16 gauge or something but with the quarter inch you're gonna get a little bit of movement like this on some of them but they're gonna be random so just embrace it overall the looks going to look awesome if you're using the half-inch you're gonna get a little bit more bowing out from the wall so we're gonna zoom in a little bit and I'll show you what I mean you're gonna see more of the drywall between the pieces and this is what I meant by the top you start at the top your top piece is gonna be the same width as the second piece down the third and so on okay so you can see the trim covers up the narrower bottom piece and then a second piece all the way up there the same width the other thing that I like about using plywood is that it's a little bit rougher material than MD bored so you see a little bit of the woodgrain coming through I'm not sure if it's going to show up on the video but you see a little bit of texture on the wall you see a little bit of imperfection and that's going to be randomly throughout your shiplap so it just adds to the look another thing to mention too is some people will put caulk on the corners where it meets the ceiling or where their walls meet I just left it as it is my preference was just to keep it kind of rough and random and I think it works because it's random so the thinner plywood has an advantage in that there can be less bowing so this is half inch plywood here so there's a stud here there's a stud here so when you put this on there's nothing in the middle so if you're using the half inch you can get some bowing so instead of it going straight across I'm exaggerating but you can get a little bit of that wood going like this there's nothing in the middle to fix that - I could have overcome that by putting some glue on maybe using a bigger gauge nail I'm not sure but overall I'm happy with it because it's sort of random where it bows a little bit but I just want you to be aware of that okay so with the half-inch or you know the wider plywood you're gonna get a different look on the wall it's gonna be a little bit darker looking in here you will see depending on the angle and the lighting you will see some of the drywall that's between the pieces of full shiplap but you're gonna see very little so you may like that look you may not okay so just a word of advice it probably would have been better to place this outlet completely in the middle of the shiplap it probably looks slightly better doesn't have to be done it's still going to look nice oh the other thing is big-box stores you can pay them to cut your shiplap whether you want at six inches eight inches wide so you're gonna want to kind of keep an eye on them as they're cutting or most people do a pretty good job but it's not just getting the right width it's making sure that they don't bevel these when they cut them I use two coats of primer by the way and I use two coats of a top coat you have to lightly sand the plywood them yes you don't really have to do much but you can lightly sand the edges I don't think it matters if you put your first coat of primer on first or you sand it first what I did was I went ahead and I just primed it and then I took a 220 sandpaper just lightly sanded over the primed paint and over the edges and got it clean then I put on a second coat of primer and I rolled it this is medium density fiberboard or MDF board it's denser than plywood it's an engineered wood made with glue and resins from hardwoods or soft woods the advantage to this is that there's no knots there's not all the imperfections and this is 1/2 inch so it's clean if you look at the cracks in between the shiplap boards everything is like clean and almost perfect there's no bowing with this whatsoever that I've noticed the disadvantage is that if you use a water-based bonding or primer on it it can cause swelling and you can't get that out you can't sand it out what you're supposed to do is use an oil-based primer and then after that's on just one coat of that then you can go to water-based with whatever paint you want to use so actually when I shiplap this a couple years ago I wasn't aware that you're supposed to use an oil-based sealer on it so I actually used a water-based one I used kills water-based primer and it's fine there's some slight swelling it doesn't bother me it's random its uniform throughout the whole piece when people come in here they tend to like it may say wow that's really nice so if I had to do it all over again I would have used an oil-based paint first like they recommended but that is the downside again so I'm gonna give you a close-up just to see where you can see some slight swelling but you'll be able to see that this is like perfect almost all your cracks are gonna be very similar and under the sink here it does wash up fine and so does the plywood downstairs to clean up I haven't noticed a difference there have been some people that would mention that don't use this in a kitchen or the bathroom because of getting water on it but if it's all sealed I don't think it's really a big deal but you can work it like I did you can put the mirror such that you're not getting the cracks here but I haven't seen a problem with dirt and stuff getting in these cracks and I did paint in here by the way so if I had to get in there and clean I could okay so I want to show you a quick easy way to fill the holes from your nail gun so we're gonna use a spackling compound spackling paste whatever you want to call it so basically you're just gonna stick your finger in there take that and you're just gonna put it in the hole stick it in there make sure it's in just wipe it away just let it dry before you paint the wall if you do it this way I could even probably roll this wall in a couple hours if I wanted to okay I want to wrap up this video by showing you our kitchen again so we've got a refrigerator back we're in the middle of a kitchen remodel I have since put a top coat of paint over the shiplap I was gonna trim up here and also trim these edges and paint it but now that I have since just added some paint there I I kind of like it I like the randomness of it so I'm gonna live with that a while maybe I'll add the trim I'm not sure yet but just to kind of wrap things up the four by eight sheets of plywood I would suggest getting them sanded on one side the half-inch probably would cost you about 25 bucks maybe 26 bucks the quarter inch maybe eighteen nineteen dollars and the MDF board you could probably get four maybe eighteen dollars I think so this room here the total cost to shiplap this and paint it is on under a hundred and fifty dollars I think you'll find that shiplap is a great inexpensive and timeless way to update your bathroom a kitchen or any wall in the future I hope to have more DIY video so if you're interested please hit the subscribe button and also the Belle and what I'm super excited about really wanna share is last year we started renting our RV on RV share and I want to have some videos on what that's all about how do you get started how much money can you make two years ago we started renting our home on Airbnb and I want to explain to you some of the ins and outs of that things how what we do with our home where do we go when we rent our home how much money have we made how much money are we anticipating making and so again especially by the way if you're looking for a way to offset the price of you know rising healthcare premiums property taxes look outside the box think about short-term rental besides renting your whole home like we are you can also rent a room and so again hit that subscribe button hit that Bell and I'm so glad you watch this video and I'm so excited this is what I love to do this is my passion and I want to make more videos and I want to share them with you so again it's a subscribe button hit that Bell and look and watch for more videos thanks for watching

Channel: Silver Lining Day Dreams

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Length: 9min 29sec (569 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 31 2019