The project is impressive, but what's more amazing is you managed to find that many straight pieces of timber from B&Q! 😁

You managed to find straight lengths from B&Q..?!?!?

Whenever I plan a new DIY project, I always check to see if you have completed a similar project, as I know you will provide lots of helpful tips and advice. Keep up the good work.

I did a slat wall recently, skipped the mdf, just used battens on the wall, paint all behind black, then jut pin them on. Stained them when they were up. Look great. Went to a local timber merchant for wood, as better quality and cheaper than big brands.

One of the best Slat Wall guides on KZfaq. A lot of thoughtful decisions made in your build. Thank you for sharing!

Wow, the finish look is totally professional. It’s all in the details which I never would have thought and picked up a few tips on the way. Thanks.

There are 2 major issues. Wearing gloves while using a table saw is extremely dangerous, you should also have some outfeed support when ripping the pine.

Hi Stuart. The CLS from B&Q still makes economic sense , especially as you say if you have the ability to cut it to size . Also if you spend a bit of time sorting through the pile , you can find some decent straight peace . As your wonderful statement wall demonstrates , even an average DIY centre can still provide the materials for most projects . And of course there open 7 days a week , and often well into the evening . Kind regards as always 👍

Great job Stuart. Very nice indeed. Very well thought out and planned as we've come to expect from you. 👌🏻

Perfect gift for the wife who hasn't got enough dusting to do, we introduce dustable walls.

You are an absolute mind reader. I've literally just measured up and purchased the wood for this exact job the wife wants doing. Gonna grab a brew and watch the vid. Epic

Great. Now all I need is 3k worth of equipment

Thanks man, I was looking for this and you’ve explain it extremely perfectly. Bless you

I’ve got to hand it to you Stuart, that is a spectacular result. I imagine that it would also be good at reducing sound levels in the room. 10/10

of so many videos on the subject, this is by far the best one i have seen. it explains everything well, it shows how its done, and you dont own a whole workshop and an armoury of high end massive cutting gear or tools which most people wont own. hence its practical and not showing off lol. thank you , much appreciate it. :)

Brilliant! Your experience clearly showed in your strategy and approach. I learned a lot in 7 mins (2x speed lol). Thank you.

Great job Stuart and it looks impressive. All that and a fantastic saving too!

Absolutely superb Stuart 👍 Doing this for a friend soon so spot on with the timing 😆

Your point about buying tools with the money you saved is a great point that many miss! By your 2nd and 3rd DIY project those tools have paid for themselves.

Sounds like a great idea and I've been meaning to have a go for a while. One thing i would say PLEASE setup and outfeed table for your table saw, even if it is something as simple as some boxes. If your rip cutting for and hour its worth the time investment for the safety.

A great job there Stuart looks well impressive .Keep the video,s coming matey.

Thanks Stuart for another slick, well presented and thoroughly enjoyable episode. You really are a great maker. Your construction theory and advice are second to none…. I just think you are fantastic at this and more power to you buddy!!!

Thanks for this, I was thinking of buying ready made panels. I'll look at making my own now 👍

Good video but am I the only one freaking out when you reached over a fully extended spinning blade to grab the wood @ 3m 35s😯.

I liked the "approval from the client" bit

Great video mate, all I need now is a big shed to do the work and plenty of patience.

That came out beautifully!

your cinematography is getting better and better. 14:23 shows it :) the project is also super interesting: easy-ish, profitable and trendy

I did this for my garden fence about 4 years ago still looks okay

13:50 I’m so glad you’ve said that, because I’ve been ‘doing the work myself’ and been buying the tools and then I’ve got them for future jobs I don’t know I want to do yet lol. So I’ve got some good kit and saved money too! I was wondering if I was mad, because I don’t know what future jobs I’ll be doing but it seemed like a good idea. 😂 Ps. Thanks for your vids! They helped me do some loft lighting recently!

Really nice project. Looks great 👍

Excellent work and tutorial as always. Thanks alot

Very clean job. I like it! Well done Sir.

Great video! I build one these last year, just because I was outraged by the cost of these acoustic panels. My only problem now is that by using construction lumber aka pine the slats have turned a bit yellow. Any tips on staining or oils that could prevent this in the future? Keep making these video’s! I love how you use the tools all of us can afford.

Nice you made it look simple very informative, thank you

This looks the start of an enormous shadow board for all your tools!! Just fit the hangers and draw around the tools! Great idea for the bedroom! Well done!

Love your videos, but don't lean over a running table saw to grab your stock. Your viewer's look up to you so you need to lead by example.

Awesome video thank you. I'm planning to do something similar. I feel like you could have skipped planning and gone straight to sanding though!

I’m about to do this !!! I love you !!!!

I'm doing the very same thing luckily I'm a joiner and understand not everyone has the tools I have. There are places that will cut down the timber you need And to put them together you can use a fast setting glue(mitre fast) when you have them where you want them you can turn it over and screw them from the back......I recommend if you are painting them just rip down MDF and put them all together. To get the sizes check some at bnq and right bit down

Great job big man

Very nice job mate 👍

Looks great but certainly won’t help with sound absorption. But a great job if money saving is the number one requirement. I bought pre-made walnut acoustic slat panels for the lounge as I needed to improve the acoustics for the hifi & they look great and worked wonders on the room acoustics

nice vid again ,keep up the good vid`s .im learning a lot

Excellent Stuart 👍👍

Nicely done.👍

I'm in the process of making a wood slat wall for my studio, I bought acoustic rubber from ebay as a backing and went to a local hardware store and bought a couple of sheets of MDF and the hardware store cut it into lengths for me and we mounted onto wood. Having the rubber behind it really helps with the purpose of having it to start with and that's how it helps break up the sound, something I think your missing here

Hi Stuart, I like it a good build project, cheaper to make and better quality than shop bought As always a great video, Take care

Great job!

I've done this on a wall in my house. I painted the wall/area with black paint. Then i used roof battens for the slats cut to size, i have enough cut off to do another wall in my house also!

Another great video thankyou 👍👍

Nice video! I bought a dewalt table saw for a project as I knew in the long run it will last me forever… wife wasn’t so convinced and asked me many times to sell it. I won’t. It also built our kitchen countertops with ease than have a cheap one that could brake. 😅

Glad you like it and I appreciate the workmanship, I but I think it looks horrible.

Great job Stuart, always like watching your videos. My only question would be, the knots in the wood and any leakage of sap from them, or does the varnish you applied stop that.

Superb video again Stuart. One thing I’ve noticed is that you always visit a large DIY shed (I know this is proper DIY). But I worked for 24 years within builders merchants and they are miles more competitive for larger purchases and a lot have mill facilities and we would charge a small amount for cuts and planing and so for an extra £50-£100 you may get this ripped and planed on their machines. Also you should save even more money on timber and materials from them as you can gain a cash account, haggle prices and get these set to terms giving you consistency. In the big sheds you just have to pay full list. As well your brand and channel will have positive pulling power and I’d be all over giving you a discount to gain the positive publicity and ‘supplied by’ tag. Hope this helps and let me know if I can be of further assistance. Thanks Andy

Looks good but think id go for a painted back board. Material one will love the dust over time

I was just about to spend $1500 on the ready-made stuff. This may have just saved me a ton!!

Nice project

just did similar but with stained oak and black MDF backing in our country they go at 120€ a pice 60cmx270cm.

Lovely job 👏🏼

Hi Stuart another great video, I love the look but worry it would be a dust collector[I don't like cleaning at the best of times], keep up the good work, G.

You have more patience than me, I would be using plywood and a track saw.

Looks awesome. I do wonder why you didn't paint the MDF black, as I believe the felt will be difficult to keep clean. Thanks for your videos. I really enjoy them and usually learn something every time.

Why use black fabric? Why not paint the sheet goods black? 💖🌞🌵😷

Great video, great result. I had thought about doing the same thing but wasn't sure about the timber bowing? I'm glad someone has done it for me to see. Do you have a follow-up video a few weeks after?

Great video will definitely do something like this might just use 12mm MDF and cut down to 40mm strips get about 30 lengths per sheet and pin them to 9mm MDF

This has given me an idea for roof of campervan, thank you. Any plans to do full length wall bookcase.

My first thought was: How to mount on the wall? First guess was: drill a hole through the timber, screw onto the wall and plug it with one of those wood plugs. Further into the video: How would he mount the timer without a visible nail?-> Nail from the back and carefully hit the timber? Nice solution. Keep it simple! Thanks for sharing.

Perfect. Thank you. Is the plane absolutely necessary?

Very nice project but I flinched every time I saw you leave the table saw blade spinning while you moved timber around the saw after a cut. Very dangerous way of working. Also get yourself a planer thicknesser - it's one of the most used tools in my workshop. Why were you ripping huge sheets on the table saw if you've also got a track saw?

Well done on the project , another method would be to use a veneered board for the face slats ok you would see the mdf edges but in reality would look fine and be more stable than using pine which can be very unstable

You should do the planning walking along the slats in one continuous motion. Two nails or screws outside the ends of the slat hold it stable while you do it.

All of the savings are paid in time, hardware, space (storage, working) and you actually have a different product. Optics are similar, but I guess the acoustic characteristics differs quite a lot. With that said, looks great!

The alternative is a jig to locate the slats flat on the bench ,then offer up the mdf board and fix off flat on bench as you did.. nice job. 🤔😂😎🇦🇺👌

That's hilarious - I said in a comment last year that you keep making videos when I'm thinking about doing something, I was literally looking at doing this like 2 weeks ago. Aside from the table saw I'd say maybe rent a thickness planer, the lunch box type, for a day - get your slats in order first then spend a day doing that; the quality of the job is going to be massively higher, for what, an extra 50 quid? I'd say minor complaint, watch the quality of wood you're using because that's a lot of knots for something that is ultimately decorative - might be worth spending a little more, getting nicer wood, and you'll still likely save a packet for a better product. I bet that type of wall covering is actually quite insulating, between the bulk of the material and the boundary layer effect caused by the air stagnating around it because of the profile.

It’s getting nice pieces of pine without the bad knots that’s also tricky

Another great video Stuart and an interesting method for doing something which, as you say, is very popular these days. I only have a small query and it is my balance OCD at work, why didn't you begin the first panel on the left hand side exactly on the outside corner of that wall (near the door) and then create a small corner filler piece on the inner corner on the right hand side please? The absence of panelling (1 or 2 slats) on the left hand side is sending my OCD into overdrive. Other than that it looks fab and a great project start to 2024. Keep up the good work !

You did a great job of finding all those tools for under £600 given the current RRP of the table saw alone is £370 direct from Evolution!

you should get yourself a old Stanley no 5 hand plane (sharpen it,) few swipes on each your done mate. no snipe no sanding no dust . try it once and you'll never go back .nice build

Wow! That was a lot of work! Looks great. Did you get your nail gun for Christmas? Hopefully one of the manufacturers will get you to review one 😊👍

Great work but it still seems to me like a load of bare wood nailed to a wall. I think spray painting the wood would have worked out better and rounding off the edges for a smoother look.

nice project, although the point of the acoustic slats is that you have a void behind them that is normally filled with acoustic mineralwool to act as sound "sponge", so the MDF board would negate this effect. Alternatively you could do what @pauljai7151 mentioned in his comment and use battens instead, then you can get the sound deadening effect of the wall as well.

Hi Stewart, you called the timber that you were using CLS, CLS stands for 'Canadian Lumber Standard', as it was originally manufactured in Canada and used for building sturdy timber-framed houses there before it became a popular option in the UK. The timber that you are using is referred to as PAR, (Planed All Round) it’s just if any of your KZfaq viewers go into a merchants asking for CLS. They would be shown something totally different to what you are using.

I happen to see a wall similar to the one you made when I was out last week at a restaurant. They used if for an accent wall so it was just the one wall. I'm going to do a wall in my house like that. What I think I'll do differently than you did though is just paint the wall the color I want first. Then I'll put the boards up. I suppose it will be the same affect that you have.

Nice project! I am admiring this from across the pond in the Golden State. One thing I wonder is this a possible heat sink? I wonder how something similar count be done on the outside wall.

From the USA. I like your project. I think I would skip using the planer and just use the random orbital sander. To add a little class to the project you could use a !/8" Round over bit (no corner splinters this way).

Did similar work recently unless you're trying to achieve a real-wood effect. The imperfections in the wood would pop-up significantly. That is the major drawback between a panel vs soft wood.

A jointing jig for your table saw would work for the planing portion of your project. Just be sure the side that rests on the table is square. I'm interested to know how you managed the tendency for big box lumber to move wildly.

The thing is, I’d like to know the relevant savings if it wasn’t pine. Made of walnut or something

Amazing.Yes investing in tools saves lots of money. Also ,you forget to add labour for a carpenter for a day. Add £200 per day. The total cost saving will be more than £700.

I'm so impressed by this project that I think I'll put something similar into one of the kids rooms! BTW, the cost of MDF over there seems so much cheaper than the US. I bought a 2x4 sheet of 1/2" MDF today for $25 :-(

I liked your secret tip for what to do if you don't have a table saw which you left until near the end.... buy a table saw :) Seriously though, I was already thinking that it's a good investment even just for a project like this. I've always thought about doing my own slat wall, I was toying with the idea of going to Lawsons to buy roofing battens which are already near the right size. With a bit of work they can be made to look nice. And if you select them carefully, in my case go to Lawsons and spend a while looking at them, definitely NOT from Builder Depot or a cheaper place, then they might even be straight. BUT - I think your idea is better. CLS wood is just better for the job. Only thing I'd do differently is the stain, because I prefer a darker wood look like a walnut or something. I'm even tempted to do this project with a special wood like sapele - far more expensive but incomparable price to buying something like that as a "system". Builder Depot does sell this hardwood decking which is Balau I think, a very lovely colour and a stable wood for this job I reckon (although I'm not a wood expert... just my experience using it so far)... although not so easy to work with!

Looks great! Do you think this would look good on a wall with a cornice between the wall and ceiling?

Looks fab Stuart, but I'd be a little concerned about the slats and knots shrinking unevenly with the further possibility of the knots weeping - especially if you have central heating.

I'd thought about a similar project in our hallway, although its fairly narrow and anything thicker than a coat of paint might be a problem. I was a bit surprised you used fabric. I thought you would have just painted it black.

Nice one, I wonder whether trimming nice ply would work out cost effective? I'm *personally* not keen on the knots. Saves on milling/sanding etc though edge banding may make it impractical. Not sure I'd hate the ply layers that much...

How good is the sound absorption with this? My 17-year-old son is constantly screaming and shouting when playing online games with his friends. Maybe I could build a box around him and the computer and give us all a break from the constant outcries! I could even seal it up completely and just leave a small slot at the bottom to push his food through. Hmm ... Definitely something to consider.

I did something similar with hard wood door lipping

WaW, ❤ it. I'd love to accomplish something like this but half the size. I'm just not confident around a spinning blade! Can I hire you?!!

These look even better with some led strips in. Really look smart. Nice project but if you were factoring labour in at say 250 per day you are about breaking even. Depends what your time and goals are.