well I'm off to the Sunshine State going to st. Petersburg Florida and visit Kareem and Jim Allman hi yeah I hear there's a lot of stuff going on inside this house right here a lot Karenin Jim give me a rundown on all they've accomplished then Jim gives me a quick tour before we get started wow what a view the water now I feel like I'm in Florida you're in Florida yeah it's obvious the almonds have finished almost all their home improvement projects except the dining room walls they've decided to try wainscot e which will make from individual strips of paneling on the wall like this the bottom it's going to be covered up with the baseboard in the top step one is to decide just how high we want the chair rail this is the actual wainscotting cap or chair rail that we're gonna use right here now originally these were designed to go right where the chair would hit the wall so let's just put this about there when can you hold this over here I also think that that visually looks like a good height to me see we got to the bottom of a chair rail just about 34 inches okay so I think I would think this would work in here Jim measures up 34 inches from the floor and makes marks on both ends of the wall then we snap a chalk line to indicate the top edge of our paneling okay get it on both ends here there we go after that young David Allman takes over snapping lines on the rest of the walls wow that's a snap look at that Corrine uses an electronic stud finder to locate and Mark the wall studs this will be important information when it comes time to nail up the chair rail here's our paneling it's about a quarter of an inch thick about three and a half inches wide in this time group the tongue on one plank slips into the groove on the next now we've made a pattern for this project because we're going to be making repetitive cuts all the boards on this wall over here are going to be the same length so we have to do is take our pattern lay it on top of a longer piece of wood and draw a line right here now what's important is to always use this same pattern I know sometimes it's tempting to take the board that we've just cut and use it as a pattern but if we do that several times we're introducing sometimes a series of small errors and the pattern can actually change in size so make one pattern use that all the way through the project since we have to cut over a hundred boards you set up a little assembly line it's been fun it's been different we've never tried the whole home remodeling until now and there is a feeling of satisfaction with the paneling cut to length we can now begin to attach it to the wall the trick here is to place the nails where they won't be seen at the very top of the boards and at the very bottom later the nail heads will be covered by the baseboard and chair rail now here's a place the pneumatic nail gun really shines it makes the job easy and the thin gauge nails quickly pin the paneling in place without splitting the ends several of our walls have electrical outlets after turning off the power and pulling out the receptacle we mark the position of the box draw the outline with a combination square and then Jim cuts the first opening with a jigsaw Corrine takes over and cuts the second piece of panel excellent finally we cut small notches to provide clearance for the receptacle mounting screws slip the paneling into position and secure it with nails our next obstacle is the corner the final board on the wall needs to be cut to a different width and there's an easy technique for this first I tape a piece of paneling right on top of the board closest to the wall I put a second board on top push it into the corner and trace the edge onto the board underneath Jim then cuts along this line and we end up with a panel exactly the width we need well our paneling's up looks pretty good doesn't it and next we putting up our base board here we're going to be cutting some angles to get around a few tricky situations using the power miter saw we'll make a bevel cut on the end of the baseboard when this cut is placed next to the door casing it give us a clean finished look to give the baseboard a smooth continuous appearance as it wraps around corners we'll cut 45 degree miter on adjacent in place together they'll form 90-degree angles bring in the timber we have one wall that is longer than any single piece of baseboard so we'll have to join two pieces together to get the length that we need by cutting opposing 45-degree angles on the ends of two baseboards and overlapping them in the joint called scarf joint becomes almost invisible adding a piece of quarter round molding where the baseboard meets the floor creates a nice detail well Jim and Corrine did a great job on the baseboard now we're down to the last piece of this wainscotting system this is the chair rail it has a rabbet cut right here in the edge which will do two things conceal the top of these paneling boards and also trap these in place holding them securely to the wall because this is going to be nailed directly into the wall studs we cut the chair rail using the same techniques we used on the baseboard remember how Corinne used the electronic stud finder to locate the studs this is where those marks came in handy since we want to nail the chair rail directly into the wall stud that turned out really nice I think so wow what a different love it remember what that room looked like this morning yes and look what we were able to do in just just one day's time projects in the house thanks Ron appreciate it you bet