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Old Homes and New Paneling: A Nasty Combination

Posted on June 22, 2010
Filed Under Home Improvement |

If you?re home improvement project involves correcting existing walls, finishing walls or building new walls, you might consider using paneling. It?s a fast way to produce effective and attractive results. If you?re in an older home, however, you need to pull out your tools and check your situation carefully before you drive off to a paneling supplier.

That?s because old homes have a nasty tendency to be ?a little off?. You?ll often find that right angles aren?t right and you?ll rarely find a place to sit your level that results in the bubble hitting dead center. Houses aren?t perfect. The people that build them aren?t perfect. And time has a way of making those slight imperfections a little more pronounced.

Thus, when you?re dealing with something like paneling, you want to be certain that pieces will fit correctly and that you will have some way of adjusting for existing imperfections along the way. That includes checking stud placement and establishing whether your floor and ceiling truly run parallel to one another.

There?s usually a way to get the job done, but it can often more labor-intensive than you might have originally thought. If you do your homework, you?ll know for sure.

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