I would like to trim out the lower half of my dining room wall with “panel molding”, in the shape of rectangles, evenly spaced out. Was wondering the best way to approach this. I’m concerned how I will handle the areas where the trim might not have a stud to grab, I was hoping I wouldn’t have to open up the wall to put “blocking”. Can anyone give me some tips on this? Thanks.
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Ron -- I don't know the size of the panel moulding you want to use, but I usually just use a little panel/ construction adhesive on the back of the moulding and shoot in on with a brad gun. I also glue the miters with wood glue. If you figure out your panel sizes, you can assemble them on a bench and then just quickly install them. I've been successful with this method for mouldings up to about 3" wide. It will probably work on larger trims, I just haven't tried it.
If "panel moulding" just means squares of trim nailed to the sheetrock, do what Shep says. And you might want to "cross nail"...press your adhesived moulding tight to the sheet rock and nail in at an angle. Then nail in at the same spot at a right angle to the first nail. Both nails kind of clamp the trim to the sheetrock until the adhesive sets up, which really holds everything to the rock. We've found siliconed based stuff sets up much faster than construction adhesive, for whatever that's worth. EliphIno!