Repairing Tongue And Groove Ceiling

Once there is a gap between the board and the wall place wood.

Repairing tongue and groove ceiling.

Place a pry bar between the baseboard and wall. Once the board is sawed in. Damaged tongue and groove ceiling in this episode i rip out a damaged ceiling tongue and groove board. They ll give you a much more solid nailing surface.

Installing the new boards was way easier than taking the old ones out fortunately cut them to length with the jigsaw seat the groove over the tongue of the previous board nail through the tongue so the holes don t show repeat. This can often be done by cutting off the tongue to get these boards down and then ripping a small amount of material off the boards to allow for movement. If you have to install new boards you may have to cutthe top part of the groove off to get the board back over an existing tongue thiswill require a limited amount of surface nailing when these boards are reinstalled. I need to go to home depot to get some replacement boa.