Hello Everyone
Never posted or used a chat room in my life a little intimidated. My name is Anita (log in name was already taken). My husband and I are buiding a home. We cut our maple trees down and took them to our local lumber mill had them cut to board lengths and kiln dried. We have 4 dimentionally squared (S4S) the boards and are now ready to tongue and groove. The final finish is 5" wide boards 5/8" thick (for the ceiling) and 3.5" wide boards 3/4" thick (for the floor). We were advised to go 3/4" thick but we eliminated some waste by going with 5/8" thick on the wider planks. Some of the planks you can see the rough still (less than 5/8" thick) these will go on the ceiling as I mentioned. My husband says we will put the bad looking side down. My concern is that once its tongue & grooved on the ceiling can it warp if it is not perfectly squared? Also we stacked our boards and just kept working away. Should I tongue and groove the boards right away? We will not install until late next fall. Also any reccomendations on process for tongue and grooving would be really appreciated. We have never used a router. Should we be clamping the pieces etc. The boards range from 1 foot in length to 10 feet. If I should be posting in a different forum please advise. We have been working on this since last fall. It is unbelievably hard physical labor and I don't want to make any mistakes at this point.
Looking forward to hearing from everyone.
Thanks for your input!
Never posted or used a chat room in my life a little intimidated. My name is Anita (log in name was already taken). My husband and I are buiding a home. We cut our maple trees down and took them to our local lumber mill had them cut to board lengths and kiln dried. We have 4 dimentionally squared (S4S) the boards and are now ready to tongue and groove. The final finish is 5" wide boards 5/8" thick (for the ceiling) and 3.5" wide boards 3/4" thick (for the floor). We were advised to go 3/4" thick but we eliminated some waste by going with 5/8" thick on the wider planks. Some of the planks you can see the rough still (less than 5/8" thick) these will go on the ceiling as I mentioned. My husband says we will put the bad looking side down. My concern is that once its tongue & grooved on the ceiling can it warp if it is not perfectly squared? Also we stacked our boards and just kept working away. Should I tongue and groove the boards right away? We will not install until late next fall. Also any reccomendations on process for tongue and grooving would be really appreciated. We have never used a router. Should we be clamping the pieces etc. The boards range from 1 foot in length to 10 feet. If I should be posting in a different forum please advise. We have been working on this since last fall. It is unbelievably hard physical labor and I don't want to make any mistakes at this point.
Looking forward to hearing from everyone.
Thanks for your input!