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Hardboard is made by exploding wood chips into fiber from and, after processing, pressing the fibers together with heat and pressure. The result is and extremely dense, rigid, and durable material, capable of standing an enormous amount of wear and tear. Since these panels and squares are put up to from a finished wall without further covering, to completed finishes cover a wide range. Simulated wood grains in all colors, baked-on enamels and leather textured surfaces are only a few of the choices available. When nailed up, furring is required under all edges. Nails should be 1 1/4" long, lightly countersunk, and the heads concealed by hold fillers. Space nails at 4" intervals on edges, 6" on center stud and supports. Cut with a saw. These materials may also be affixed. to walls with adhesives, with beveled joints left to from a pattern or filled as desired. They may also be put up with special metal or wood strips used both as support and to conceal the actual joints. Owing to the strength of hardboard, they make an excellent covering for old broken plaster walls which they support and conceal. With their virtually waterproof finish, they are idea for kitchen and bedroom and may be washed repeatedly.
Plywood is a firm base for the application of tile, linoleum, fabric, wallpaper or paint. There is little shrinkage or warping, cracking or curling under normal household conditions. Plywood may be obtained in literally hundreds of forms. Thickness varies from 1/4" to over 1", with increasing sturdiness. As a rule, one side is rough, the surface side ready for the final coating. Unfinished plywood paneling is sold in sheets, usually 4-by-8' and larger. They may be cut with a hand saw, nailing, or screw fastening, should be made at 16" on centers. Nail size depend on the thickness used, the nail being 3 time as long as the wood thickness. But joints can be made invisible with filled in most applications. Striated plywood finishes help to conceal joints, In plywood, nails should be countersunk-in which case finishing nails and brads are more practical and the hold then filled with plastic wood to be concealed later by the final finishing processes. Fabricated panels, including tongue-and-grooved sheets, are applied with special clips. While this leaves a slightly raised joint, the finished panels can be so arranged that the seams are invisible or else used to accent the paneled effects of the room.
Solid wood, of course, includes such paneling as knotty pine, clear pine and specially beveled and striated lumbers milled according to order for specific purposes. Random widths, special finishes and stains all combine to make paneled rooms as modern or as provincial as the decorator's fancy desires. Application to old walls or new should be on furring strips for adequate nailing surface.
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