I was thinking of having smooth tongue-and-groove wood paneling on the ceiling (painted white) and have seen from some forum posts and heard from builders that one option is to buy pine flooring and put it on the ceiling, partly because it is relatively cheap and partly because it is dried so you don't get large cracks. Does anyone have any experience with this? Does it work well, where did you buy the flooring, does it look good, etc.? I saw that they had a cheap pine floor at byggmax for 100kr/sqm for example...
There is ready-made tongue and groove paneling available for purchase at places like XL Bygg, which you install without gaps; it then dries to about 3mm. It is important not to let it dry for too long before installing it, as this will result in quite tight gaps...
Within a month it should be in place, I thought. I wasn't planning to paint it; it might be oiled instead. I'm using the same pine flooring, visible timber walls, and beams. So it will be wood all around. I've almost laid the entire floor, and the quality of the flooring was very different. The first packages I opened had all planks 100% tidy, no marks, completely smooth and nice. Then I opened another batch of longer floor planks, and there 1/8 planks could be 100%. The ones that weren't 100% had "bark patterns," holes from fallen knots, and the knots that were left were very ugly with notches, etc. I think they've used a bad tree here. I counted on 20% waste, and I think it will just be enough to get the floor finished with that.
I installed tongue and groove paneling in the ceiling of our new bathroom, which was completed two months ago. I applied a white stain twice using Herdins Ceiling and Panel White. I am really satisfied.
I installed tongue and groove in the ceiling of our new bathroom, which was completed two months ago. I stained the ceiling twice with Herdins ceiling and panel white. I'm really satisfied.
Cool! Where did you buy the tongue and groove and don't you feel like uploading a picture?
I brought out the DSLR camera so hopefully it will give a good impression of how it really looks. You can click on the images to see the high-resolution version.
The shiplap and ceiling moulding were purchased at Karl Hedin.
Article 10 003425135, Salningslist furu vit 19x27mm, about 20 kr/lpm
Article 30 262685, Siljan panel slätspont 15X120 Gran, about 20 kr/lpm
I brought out the DSLR camera so hopefully, you can get a good idea of how it really looks. You can click on the images to see the high-resolution version.
That turned out really nice!
A thousand thanks for the pictures, one never ceases to be amazed at how helpful people are on byggahus!
Thank you. I myself have benefited a lot from the forum, so I think I can try to give back when I have something to contribute.
Worth adding is that the window recess is made from regular laminated board of pine, so-called hobby board, which I also painted with the same color. The craftsman who built the bathroom thought it would be a better solution than a smooth board.
I was planning to use planed tongue and groove in my ceiling as well, but they didn't have it either at Beijer or Byggmax, and those were my options. Feels like the pine floor is about the same thing, just slightly more expensive.
I have used raw tongue and groove boards on the walls and ceiling in my 8-sided stove room (indoor greenhouse). The sawed side is down in the ceiling, the smooth side out on the wall. Since the rsp is planed slightly differently, there is a gap on the smooth side. Painted with blue-toned oil glaze on walls. In the ceiling with diluted white Alcro outdoor primer.
