The idea to use offset material thickness is outstanding.

As someone who is looking to panel a very old UK house, your video has given me some superb tips on how to set out the panelling. What a great idea to vary the thicknesses of the timber. Thank you

I'm a kiwi,I love seeing American carpentry,you have alot of great timber, concepts and handy gadgets and the professionalism is just super, well done sensei🤙

This is great stuff! One of the things I struggle with is figuring out appealing details for clients, so this idea of offsetting material thickness, creating an appealing look AND making less labor for yourself, is awesome!

Awesome and super practical way to add wainscoting to any project! The layout explanation was great as well, we aren't just carpenters but also designers and learning how to break up a room and trick the eye is an important skill!

Really fantastic job on explaining layout challenges and solutions. The room looks excellent. Paint and furniture will hide anything you don’t like personally yet highlight the beautiful job you’ve done. Thanks for the nailing info as well.

Your process is amazing Spencer! Making simple decisions on different thickness's of materials ,knowing where they will move and keeping it hidden. Then execution is fantastic 👏. We use PPG paintable caulk on all sides of painted cabinets ,before they hit the paintbooth. This keeps the black crack,away from any movement that may happen

Your spacing compromises logic is spot on.

Hi - I know this was posted a while ago but wanted you to know I just completed this in my guest bedroom and it turned out amazing. The tip of choosing a wider board for the top was particularly helpful and made the installation go so much faster, plus reveals are so pleasing to the eye. I have watched loads of “board and batten” videos and yours was the most helpful. Just wanted to made sure I thanked you.

I wainscotted our front room recently! Now in process of wainscoting our chimney breast in bedroom. Sort of like a feature wall! Adding adding interior shelves to inside of chimney alcoves. Looking sweet. Just done filling and sanding today, first coat of paint tomorrow.

Has a painting contractor the offsetting of the material is brilliant couple of months ago I did a brand new house with a good amount of wainscoting flush mounted to each other no biscuit joinery or dowels like you mentioned. Within a month I was back putting Bondo on the seams

Thanks for all the detailed info you provided. The 2 different thicknesses of the wood is genius. Very helpful.

Very good video Spencer! I really like your narriative explaining your thought process. The room turned out great, would like to see the room painted.

Nice work as usual. I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos. Thanks. Keep up the Great work and Great videos.

Hey Spencer. I’d love to see a video of you doing a walk through in pricing a job and your process through doing that! Thanks for the vids!

Excellent work. You have oldschool knowledge and technique that is dying out. Getting harder to find quality contractors who do this level of work at an affordable price. Good stuff!

Thanks Spencer. Really like all the thinking you do to make the project all it can be. Great video.

I just wish I could find someone in my area with your skills - I have fault over and over again, getting my trim crews to understand the benefit of different sized mating materials. Nice vid.

Your videos in almost every case relate to some aspect of “value engineering”. Value engineering is fancy / technical term. A process that minimizes labor, material, scrap etc. without compromising end function. My exposure was in aerospace parts manufacturing. Would be interested to hear your introduction to this process. Self taught? Mentored? Education? -- I too wainscot my dining room using current sheetrock wall, glue and power nailer. Spot on regarding joints cracking. I fancied up the top rail perimeter with small crown molded / top self for wife’s collector plates. As you mention outlets create major layout issues. Keep up your great videos.

Thank you for talking through your problem solving on how you broke things up around the windows, doors, and outlets

Thanks, enjoy all your videos, thanks for explaining your spacing, it looks great.

Viewing this again want to offer it in the options and it is a perfect solution to ppl on a budget giving me a good profit margin still Thk u Spencer!

Once again great Job! Very detailed and great job explaining your process.

I know when I see you that you are showing the right way to do things

Great job and your tips are greatly appreciated for us do-it-your-selfer’s!

Love the tips, and you did a great job on the spacing. Good choices, speaking as an interior designer. It makes sense why you did what you did. I enjoy board and batten style. Very simple but clean look.

A final look of how it turned out would be great!

Clever approach to maintaining an appearance of symmetry around the windows and the corner. Thanks for the video!

This video answered a bunch of questions I had on how I should do this in one of my bedroom walls. Thanks a lot!

The people that give 👎to your videos are just pure haters! You do amazing work and your videos are so indepth with great explanations not only for the average DIY'er but for other professional carpenters. Keep up the amazing work and I look forward to watching more videos!

Great job!! Love the different thicknesses

I gotta say, you are the best. I always get something out of your videos. I have to work alone, as you, so I learn from you how to do it. In this video, I have to do my wainscotting as cheaply as possible. I studied this video a year ago, and I did it againg just now.

You rock, material thickness tip is gold!

I want to do some wainscoting in my house. It's a 25-year-old trailer, so I don't want to put a bunch on money into it, but there is wallpaper in the dining room that is damaged along the bottom on one wall. This gave me some great ideas on how to tackle this on a budget.

been poking around your YT vids for a week now-awesome tutorials and some really, really sweet looking trimwork. I did our master,-the bed wall in wainscot, the walls with a 3/4 height two piece trim, and a simple pediment above the 3 piece patio door. Never realized I used the "value engineered" method! LOL great stuff, man.

Fantastic advice on the different thicknesses of the top rail and stiles! How DIY videos I found online don't mention this.

Making the best of the layout buddy. Thanks for the tips as always

I hear you about the layout having multiple issues to solve and the getting a somewhat even appearance. You got it right. I was told to split the windows in half - run the stile under middle of window - but your approach looks better. The windows also add complexity to layout. About heights. Your doors appear 6’-8” (stock) and windows are same height as doors with maybe a 9’ wall. You’re about 6’ tall (72”) give or take a few. You did top rail slightly above mid door (and mid window) - just below your own height. It divides the wall into halves with smaller half being above top rail. That looks right. I added ship lap in my own bedroom. I had to play with the height (I’m 74” tall) with 9’ ceiling. I kept the top rail slightly below 74” and it looks correct - balanced. To me that’s another issue that’s hard to determine but using the visual you presented here, works well for 9’ ceilings. Crown will also tighten up (lessen) the upper wall distance rather nicely. Thanks for the tips!

Great job and the fact is that room is the boss and that room tells us what to cut and where to cut it. The layout is decided by the room not us carpenters or the customer.

disregard the previous questions. If I had listened to the entire video before asking the questions, I would have my answers. great video.

Definitely always good to have different methods to do things, also depends on how much the customer is willing to spend on the job.

Thank you for sharing and fully explaining your approach.

That method seams good for a very basic install. Gets it done, looks good.

Helpful video, thank you i like the tip about different thickness of timber so you dont need pocket screws

Very well planned, thanks for the education.

I’m starting wainscoting at home. Had planned to build sections of same thickness stiles and rails joining with pocket holes. I think this method, when cut correctly, will be better for working alone. Thank you very much.

It's an amazing job. I learned a lot. Thank you so much.

Great video. Good to see how another carpenter does it.

appreciate the layout explanation..I was wondering how those short legs ended up being so symmetrical under the window. Great work.

Very practical info. Great video!

You’re the best, I liking to much, your detail , step by step

The biggest tip is the multi-thickness of the trim!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge

I love the use of that scrap wood for _engineered wood_ !

Really like that solution for the weird corner/window asymmetry

I learn something new every day!

By far my favorite KZfaq carpenter

Very informative, ad helpful, thank you.

Great vid and all the links to tools is a plus.👊🏼🇺🇸😎

That's great. I usually prime and paint for paintable finish

Great job! Very helpful tips!

As a siding guy who does b/b with engineered wood or Hardie I can agree on the layout aspect with symmetry.

I was not critiquing the layout. But I was curious how you came up with it. Really solid what you came up with, considering what you had to work with.

Looks great…. Yep always have fudge factor panel sizing around all kind of issues.

Looks great. I don't like using any caulk or wood putty to hide the gaps like it tight joint. Takes a challenge like you said to set up the OC stiles. But you've done a great job.

Loved the double nailing tip 👍

How are you calculating your spacing to come out equally on all 4 walls especially when each wall may have a unique issue such as a window or a door. Your work is GREAT! I am considering doing my small guest room 11 x 12 but am having a difficult time with the calculations and having equal spacing and still going around doors and windows in the room - any suggestions? Thanks!

Thanks for the lesson!

The biggest thing is always use appropriate size nails especially on older homes because you are not shooting into studs and there are wires , plumbing, gas lines ,etc and you can nail a plumbing pipe and you will never know until the nail rust through and if its under pressure you will have major damage if not caught in time! I know l made that mistake!!! Remember the glue is what holds everything in place not the nails!! Good luck and awesome video!!!

Cool approach for a economy install

Looks great. Maybe post photos of the painted, finished product on your instagram?

Looks fantastic.

Very good channel.... great explanations.... Thank you

Wow, thank you, lots of good pointers here

Music game on point...good vibes on this video

Spencer I recently did two of these? Where were you? No I am throwing down a price 4 a M/B remodel! This will help give the customer a great look & product as opposed to glue on bead board! Thank you Spencer great teaching video! By the way I am Kings Table Custom Finish Carpentry! U know the crazy grandsons!👊

Great video.....great tips....thanks

I learned a lot. Thank you

I think in a bedroom, which that room looked like it might have been (?), this is a very smart approach. However, in a living room or dining room, unless you go with a darker stain grade (or paint), you’re going to see the slight reveal of the styles butting into the rails. That being said you couldn’t be more right; having to add complex joinery to flush the styles and rails adds an unbelievable amount of time. Good video

So the door / window casing is 1 1/4”, the rails are 3/4”, and the stiles are 5/8”. I do love the chunky casing around doors & windows! Looks great, per usual.

Great video, just as always

Our secret was to paint the panels and wainscot high gloss and paint the wall above it in low sheen. It makes the panels looks like timber panels.

Great video. Would love to see it after paint.

Great work!

Looks great 👍

Nice reality check. Good job,

thanks for the tips always good content... could you mention in next episode how you have you set up the outfeed on the table saw looks neat... thanks :)

Awesome tips!

Good job man!

Hi Spencer, Thanks for explaining your thought process. Quick question ; Your Dewalt tripod light looks like you have an elastic covering over the light head, is that a diffuser, or a splatter cover? I love my tripod light.

I love this! I have knock down texture walls. Would it look bad to keep that texture with this style? Have you ever seen it done that way?

Este vato si sabe como!!! He's a badass for real.

having watched much of Finish Carpentry TV, i had often wondered how you did yours...

Great job 👏

This was great, thank you! Just to confirm, your stiles are a slightly lower width than your top rail to account for possible expansion and prevent issues down the road? One other question - do you always remove the baseboard of a room when doing Wainscoting? All videos I've seen have the top rail and bottom rail (new baseboard) match so I wasn't sure if you could do using the current baseboard trim... Thanks again!

Nicely done. 👍👍👍

Backbanding the casing is an option, do you add a cap and cove molding to this f/e install? Nice to see your techniques/get your thoughts.

Spencer, Good tips on the offset thickness of the material and using casing material.

I love your process! If I had any critique, it would be the height of the wainscoting. 34 or 36 inches from the floor would have looked better ,in my humble opinion. Wainscoting this tall looks better when using thicker stock. I bet it can be frustrating balancing what a customer "wants" as opposed to what fits a room or simply looks better. 🤔

well thought out and some great finish carpentry tips, you are very easy to follow in the video.

I really like the video! Would you care to show your scribing technique in the corners? Or in another video? Im curious what you are using to scribe and how you determine which board to scribe.