How to Install Chair Rail and Picture Frame Moulding

[Music] welcome to the jobsite today I'm going to be showing you how to install wall paneling this is a wainscoting style that's very simple and it's just where you nail a chair rail onto the wall and a p.m. which is a panel mold underneath the chair rail to make frames shadow boxes rectangles picture frame whatever you want to call them we're going to be making boxes on the walls underneath the chair rail and we did at this house a few months ago and if you look over here off the stairs this is what we did that's what I'm going to be showing you how to do today so stick around so here's the wall that I'm going to be showing you how to do as with all our other wainscoting videos I show you how to do one wall just to give you a basic idea here's the one wall that we're going to be doing the first thing I'm going to do is mark off the height of the top of the chair rail and I'll just do this with a tape measure and a pencil and the height for mine is 40 inches usually we're doing about forty to forty six inches and that's pretty standard so good tape measure I'm not going to push on it I'm just going to let it set on the carpet and then Mark off 40 and I'll go about halfway down the wall this should give me another reference point forty and then go to the edge over here and another forty so at this point what you can do is you could connect the two ends and do a snap line but I don't like doing that on carpet and we're not going to have any protection down right here since we're just installing this so what I'm going to do is just line up my top of my chair roll with those reference lines and it should be good to go my reference points mark on the wall the forty inches up and what I'm going to do is take a measurement for my chair rail and this chair rail is just going to be dead end into that wall right there that's the way that they wanted it and then I'm just going to have it dead in to this door casing so I'll just get a measurement across here and it's ninety three and three quarters and somehow I already have that cut it was already in the oven so I'll just line up my 40 might arrow on those reference lines and then I can shoot it in and I should be good to go so now that I have that chair Ellen you saw how easy that was this is really the easiest way to dress up your walls with the wainscoting look I have these 4-inch blocks these are my spacer blocks in between each panel and between the top of the baseboard and the bottom of the chair rail I'll show you what I mean I'll take these blocks and this is the point right here the end of this block is where my first panel needs to be my first PM needs to start right there same thing down here that's where they need to start right there on that block so what I can do is just take a measurement right here like this or not a measurement but make a little line like this and then come down on this side and you see the point of intersection that's where my first panel needs to lay out I'll do the same thing down here just trying it across and do the same thing going up and you see that point of intersection that's the outside corners for my p.m. it's really that easy now the not so easy part is finding out how many boxes you can fit on here but I'll show you how to do that it's not hard at all what I'm going to do is I'm going to do this same thing on that side so I'll do that in these blocks right here they're four inches all the way around this is a true square drag it on over this way these can be whatever you want if you don't like how tall four is you can shorten it or make it bigger it's totally up to you so now what I'm going to do is I will to figure out how many panels I can fit in here I have my measurement for this which was ninety three and three quarters so I'll write that down ninety three and three quarters that's from this wall to that door casing and what I'll do just to make sure that it's kind of square just to make sure that it's fairly even I'll take a measurement of the bottom so I'm going to hit the wall come over to the door casing ninety three and five eighths on an eighth of an inch off that's not something I'm worrying about the ninety three and three quarters what I need to do is subtract four inches from each side so that'll give me a total of eight to subtract so we go ninety three and three quarters minus eight which is eighty five and three quarters eighty five point seven five so the way this is going to work is now I've just got to determine how many panels do I want to fit on this wall and a good reference point is the rest of the house what matches with the rest of the house so just looking at this wall I think I can fit one two three four let's say five so if I want to put five panel boxes on here what I'll do is I will do 4 times 4 which is 16 and I will take eighty five point seven five minus 16 so the reason I did four times four is because if you want five boxes you have four spaces in between those boxes if you want six boxes you have five spaces in between those boxes if you want seven boxes you have six spaces in between those boxes however many boxes you have you always have one less numeric value for what how many spaces are in between those boxes so 10 boxes 9 spaces 11 boxes 10 spaces so if I want five boxes I've got four reveals gaps in between those boxes and they're 4 inches thick so 4 times 4 is 16 so 85 and 3/4 minus 16 I went to freaking public school shut up so is somebody out there and it's like I can't do the math in your head well I told you already I went to public school 69 and 3 so 85 and 3/4 minus 16 is 69 and 3/4 so now that I have my 69 and 3/4 I'll divide that by 5 because that's how many boxes I want and it's 14 inches which is fine 14 inches so what I'll do now is I'll just measure this just to verify that it's going to fit I'll start here and I'll go over 14 make this block right here pencil line this is just a getting idea if this is going to work in our 14 all the way down the line and this last one should tell me how accurate is 14 so we're good to go with that so now that I know the layout is going to work with my measurements what I will do is just take a measurement from top of this line or from this top line to this bottom line and I got 26 inches so 26 inches high and 14 inches wide that's each panel that's what each panel is going to be now how many of those do I need but if I have five boxes I just multiply each number times two so for the 26 inches I need ten of those and for the fourteen inches I need ten of those so for the 14 I'll get 10 of those and for the 26 when I get 10 those will go out will cut these up on the sole and we'll bring them in and show you how easy they are to clean so we just cut all of our panel molding I'm just laying it out in groups and the first thing you'll do when you're installing this is you'll take your blocks and just make a square like that so you can have something to push it up you'll take your first vertical I just start with the verticals shoot in there take one of your horizontals keeping aim position type it in there you'll do the same thing you'll see that kind of moves up okay thank you sir [Music] then from the bottom and this directors lockdown start going it [Applause] bring your boards also on across pack better [Music] come down with this bird this one will fit [Music] you block area just want to make sure and here and that's how simple it is we'll go on down the line one thing you can do with these panel molds just to make sure they don't move around on you through the years is just do a toenail either through the top and into that one or through the side that'll just give it some more strength so you don't have to worry about the house ships or anything this stuff cracking over the years so I usually do that too and that's just bring in a nail down from molding into the molding so you're not shooting into the wall sighs that should do it I'll keep doing the same thing down the line and show you how that looks at the end so that should do it for this wall and as you can see here we're perfectly on our point of intersections at the end so that means this panel layout system worked out perfect and we got lucky kind of here with this outlet we didn't have to move it it came right on the edge of one of our panels so just keep those in mind as you're laying it out you can move things around and kind of try to avoid those but there you have it that's how easy it is to put these picture frames shadow boxes and moldings with like I said whatever you want to call them on a wall and when we pay them they will look great just like they look down the stairwell derp so there you have it that's how easy it is to install the chair rail with the panel moldings underneath it there's a little bit of math involved but for the most part it's the super most simple way to make your wall look like a dressed-up wainscoting look without the cost without the time and with a lot less effort so like I said earlier this is the end result once we paint it that's how it's going to look thanks for watching again and I'll catch you all next time [Music]

Channel: Finish Carpentry TV

Views: 2,200,280

Keywords: install, chair, rail, shadow, box, molding, moulding, dfw, austin, texas

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Length: 13min 31sec (811 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 16 2016