Help with us with our 1950’s knotty pine paneling! (Please...)
Lucy
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Help! Painted Knotty Pine Paneling Has Huge Gaps In Winter
Comments (4)Wood expands and contracts as it absorbs and looses moisture. During heating season the relative humidity tends to go down (the warmed air can hold more moisture, and without a source of moisture the RH goes down). During the cooling season the humidity tends to be higher. The air from an A/C coil is at its dew point (that is why it gave up water as condensate) and even after mixing with the warmer air in the house the RH is still higher than in the heating season. No finish can completely stop moisture movement in and out of wood. It can be slowed down, but not stopped. The movement is a percentage of the width of the board based on the change in its moisture level. Wider boards move more. You can minimize the movement by how the wood is cut from the log also. Quarter sawn wood moves less in width than flat sawn wood, but it still moves. You could try and apply more paint to the now exposed wood, but depending on how tight the tongues are in the grooves it may be scraped off when the wood expands during the summer. If you manage to get paint into the joint, it can also lock the tongue in position in the groove. When the wood then shrinks further splitting can occur (and the tongue having the smaller cross section is a common place for a split to occur....See MoreOld Knotty Pine Paneling
Comments (4)So, this post is an older one, and stripping products have come a long way. I recently started stripping our 72 year old knotty pine kitchen cabinets. Over the years, they had been varnished/shellacked many times; very orange, very hard to strip. I resorted to using Easy-Off oven cleaner. You need to work in small areas at a time; don't let it sit for long or it will darken the wood. Easy-Off is cheaper and faster than the stripper I tried. I strongly suggest you try a test area to see how the Easy-Off will react to your finish and wood. Nothing is guaranteed, but maybe this will help someone else....See Morehelp! how do i paint over polyurethaned knotty pine ?
Comments (51)Hello, we have a small sunroom ( western side of the house) has knotty pine wood on the walls, ceiling and up into the cut out Skylight areas. The area up in the sky light reflected drip like black water marks on it so we decided to paint the ceiling (had the skylights replaced three months ago and we know the Knotty Pine is in fine shape otherwise). We decided to paint the ceiling, including up in the recessed sky light areas. started with the Bin primer, put two coats, then started to see an Amber-colored film coming through. Unfortunately the painter then added two coats of a latex paint. The amber color is still coming through. I'm wondering if it's old sap that which from the heat of the sun coming through the skylights. Suggestions on how I tackle this project at this point considering we have two layers of den and two layers of latex paint and the amber color is coming through just like we simply did a white wash....See MoreKnotty Pine Den Ideas PLEASE
Comments (53)Great improvement so far! I would leave the fireplace hearth as is since it blends into your hardwood floors. For pillows, you can either remove the bolster pillows to use two large pillows on each end of the sofa, or just have covers made for the bolster pillows in another fabric. I would use navy blue or fluffy white for pillows. I like the teak chairs in the room, but an armchair could also work. Try to find a simple, short enclosed shelf to use under your window to block the outlet, cords, and equipment rather than the tall end table that is there currently. If you have to keep the tv there, you can get white cord concealers to run the cords down the side of the fireplace so they aren't so noticeable....See MoreLucy
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