How to Plank a Ceiling By Yourself | Easy Plywood Shiplap Ceiling

hi everybody it's melissa from welcome to the woods today I get to show you what I did to upgrade the ceiling on our front porch as you probably know from the recent repost I did our exterior got a huge makeover last year with siding soffits gutters fascia and the porch area we decided not to have soffit adjust because it was going to be really expensive I also decided that there was just a lot of black and white we needed to bring a little warmth back into the design and that this ceiling would look perfect would planked so let me show you how I did it did it really cheap and fast it took me three days and it cost me just a little over $80 [Music] now the ceiling man was on the front porch I think is original it had the very skinny wood planks they were running vertically along the length of the porch and I was looking for a solution that would be really easy to just tack on to what was existing so he didn't have to do any demolition what I decided on was cutting strips of very thin plywood to the same width and then running it horizontally across the ceiling perpendicular to what was already there that way the nails that I put in just the Brad nails would hold better and the great thing is that the width of the porch was shy of 8 feet so buying a 4x8 sheet of plywood my strips that I cut are wide enough that I don't need to stagger planks or anything every plank can be the full width of the porch so um what I did was I went to the hardware store and I got seven sheets of 1/8 inch thick very very thin plywood and since I went to Home Depot they cut it for you for free like the first four cuts or whatever are free so I had them rip all of the four by eight in half and then they could fit in my van I stacked up all of the plywood well not all of it but half of it i stacked it up so it was thicker like an inch thick and then I could use the guide that's part of my circular saw and I could run that along and just set the guide to be 5 and 7/8 inches wide and the reason I did it just slightly shy of 6 inches that I was allowing for the curve of the blade because of exactly 4 foot wide plywood wouldn't end up in the same size plank unless you allow for that does that make sense so anyway I ran those all those strips and then I stacked him up and I basically polycrylic all the edges as they were all stacked this just made it faster and easier to get them all coated this is to prevent any moisture from absorbing into the plywood planks I don't think I'll have that issue because they're never exposed to rain or anything but it does get kind of humid in Minnesota during the summer so I just want to protect from that then the next day I started nailing them on to the ceiling I'm using an air compressor brad nailer combination that I got years ago as a gift for Christmas it's really not an expensive tool and it's very useful if you're gonna do any kind of trim work or anything with like smaller projects Brad nails are great so I'll drop one in the description on this video so I just put my first slat up on the ceiling to get started and then from then on I used a quarter to get the exact same spacing between each plank the great thing about the solution though was that all of the white planks that were running vertically they had so many issues like holes drilled in them or gaps or they had kind of moved up and down over time and because I was using such thin plywood I was able to just cover it nail it up quickly and handle each plank all by myself even getting the spacing of the quarter it took a little practice but by the end I was pretty efficient just basically bouncing between two ladders across the plank and getting everything nailed in so it just took time this was a tedious project but the result afterwards is stunning and I hope that you are impressed with it I hope I gave you an idea on how you can very easy the update a ceiling or plank something that doesn't get a lot of use I wouldn't use this for like a floor but since it's just visual and the ceiling the white plank ceiling is still there this is really just an aesthetic upgrade so the other thing was the obstacle of the light that really wasn't an issue for me I didn't have to disconnect the electrical I just unscrewed the fixture let it hang down and then I I planned around it one plank ended up basically covering the entire circle light fixture and I cut it out with like a multi oscillating tool just because the plank was really really long so a multi oscillating tool is the right thing because I could just plunge it into the circle where I needed to cut it out and I did end up just cutting this piece in half to get it to put one side in put the other side in and then replace the light so that was pretty simple now I didn't check if the first plank that I laid was exactly square with the ceiling or with the walls because the house is so old that no matter what I had tried to get it square it wouldn't have been perfect so I just eyeballed it and when I got to the end after you know every single plank had been laid and then at the end you kind of see like how off was I I was only off by about a half an inch like one side was like four and a quarter and one other side was 2 and 3/4 inch and a half I guess but that was ok with me I just cut it at an angle with my circular saw and had everything clamped down just to get that to be a good perfect fit so then to finish off of the ceiling once all the planks were installed I'm gonna come across enroll polycrylic on the actual surface of the board not just those edges that I did earlier so I rolled that with a foam roller a mini roller and it would have been better if I had like a foam 9 inch roller on a stick but I didn't so just gave my arms a workout and it took me only like an hour it was fine then after the polycrylic was up i just cleaned up the edge by installing some cove and eight foot long boards of cove it's like a curved trim piece the cove just allows me to close the gap between the ceiling and the wall there was just some areas there that didn't look good that's my idea I hope you were impressed and like I said I think I paid like 81 or 82 dollars for the seven sheets of plywood at Home Depot and brought it home and then did this whole thing with everything else I already had the Brad nails and the nailer and the tools I hope you were impressed with this I have a lot more coming up this is just the beginning of my porch makeover I have so many plans I'll run through some here now but if you want to make sure that you don't miss any of those makeovers or any of those projects coming up don't forget to subscribe to my channel or follow my page so that you don't miss anything and just hit that notification bell then you'll get a little notification every time that I post so the plans I have coming up for the porch I'm going to skim coat the foundation and paint that I'm going to do a fix like a patch on the floor where I paint a DIY rug because there's an area where the top step had kind of gotten rotten I'm gonna clean and probably repaint the railing I am going to replace the door on the little like area playroom area it's like a clubhouse or garden shed maybe attached to the front porch it's just this kind of weird door off to the side I'm really gonna revamp a lot in that room right now I'm just replacing the door and painting it and fixing it up and then the thing I'm most excited about is I'm going to build a bed swing I'm so so excited it's a design that I came up with in my head and I can't wait to show you guys hopefully it works out the way I imagined it and that's coming up so it's gonna be very modern and hopefully very pretty I hope that you were inspired and we'll see you again next week on welcome to the woods bye bye you [Music]

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Id: 0isz4xXvoCo

Length: 8min 52sec (532 seconds)

Published: Thu May 07 2020