How To Repair A Tounge And Groove Ceiling

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Question: How tin can I fix my croaky Tongue & Groove ceiling board?

I take a Tongue and Groove ceiling and in that location is a crack in one of the boards.

Question from Josh:

Can I fix this? Should I exist concerned?

This is a really, really practiced question. And a very of import question. Josh actually sent me a movie and showed me exactly what was going on.

I want yous to see the flick that's been posted on the website. You might have the same problem.

ceiling crack — Close upward view of carve up Tongue and Groove

Well, I looked at the picture and aye, y'all should be concerned. That's not just a crack, yous got part of your lath missing. So, yous want to make sure that you lot have a contractor come out and expect at that to make certain that you're structurally safety. Okay?

"Tongue and Groove is pretty difficult to repair considering you lot accept the tongue and groove from which the board's interlock with each other."
Todd Bird, Host of AskTheContractors.com

However, it can be repaired but when it's repaired, the tongue is really going to have to be cut so you can fit the lath upwards in that location.

You won't run into the repaired ceiling. It'll wait like the original wood has been put back up.

Click here for a stride-past-pace gear up of instructions to repair a Tongue and Groove console.

Josh, you lot may notwithstanding want to have a professional person do the repair considering of it's location on the ceiling.

Only here's the matter. That's more than than just a crevice. That absolutely could be dry rot. I demand to look a little closer at what y'all sent me. I can't quite see all of it. But make sure yous don't have dry rot in your roofing materials, or that it's penetrating into your sheathing. Then, absolutely take that checked out by a contractor.

I desire to know more than nigh how this turns out because that's more than just a scissure, Josh. Thank you lot for sending your question.

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