Short Stuff: Wainscoting: When Half a Wall is Enough | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

[Music]. hey and welcome to the short stuff I'm. Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here. standing for Dave so this is short stuff. let's go scoot scoot. scoot sure all right inside joke. everyone uh we're talking about what I. call Wayne scotting today uh apparently. you can also pronounce it Wayne's. coating I've always said Wayne's cating. and evidently either one of them are. just fine I saw also um people in.

Chumley and haybrook pronounce it Wookie. cat. what look it up okay uh if you don't. know what we're talking about we'll tell. you right off the bat that Wayne. scotting is a uh design feature it's. been around for several hundred years. and if you've ever been in a house and. you walk into let's say the dining room. and instead of the entire wall being. let's say drywall maybe about.

uh halfway down or uh I think the. general rule is is what two two-thirds. of the way down waist height you will. find and you know it depends on your the. height of your wall though really um. because you would you want to do it. different for like a 10ft ceiling than. like a 8ot ceiling it's quite a setup it. is uh but if from there down you see. like you know these uh any kind of wood. paneling or these these uh wood Stripes. paneling board something like that not.

the rail itself we'll get to that that. is what Wayne scotting is yeah it turns. out it's harder to explain than you'd. think you know I didn't think it was. until I got going first of all that. space that's waist height down on the. wall is called a doto so Wayne scotting. basically covers the doto if you had. paneling that went all the way to say. the ceiling that's just called paneling. typically so that's one aspect of way. scotting that that usually is um. Universal it's about waist height okay. yeah and then um it's often made of wood.

but sometimes it's made to look like. it's made of wood uh it could just be. raised um quarter round or other kinds. of molding cut at 45 degree angles and. fashion into a a square a hollow square. and put in repetition on the wall and. put a a molding at the top and a molding. at the bottom painted all one color. that's a different color from the wall. above it you've got faux Wayne scotting. as a DIY weekend project can I stop all.

the Carpenters from writing you a letter. oh gosh did I say something wrong I. think it would probably have to be I. think it would have to be half round. yeah I was hoping that people wouldn't. pick up on that because I thought it as. I was saying it but I'm I'm glad you. corrected me for to keep from emails. yeah I mean that's one way you can do it. is literally individual strips of board. uh much more commonly these days you can. buy this stuff in large 4x8 sheets that. are already grooved to look like those. individual strips much much easier and.

it's a it's a not too hard DIY project. I've done it plenty of times and it it. can really yeah yeah it's really easy uh. well we'll get to when it's not easy but. um you know if you can uh cut something. to fit a wall and you have like a a what. are those things called that you get. like cocking out of a tube with a. Gun Co gun yeah then then you can do. that some Liquid Nails maybe even a a. little nail shooter yeah a little ing.

nail gun yeah it's it's as easy as that. it's really not hard uh the word itself. I think by the time the late 1500s. rolled around uh was a verb meaning to. line boards with paneling from uh. supposedly maybe a middle Dutch or low. German uh vagin. shot calling it from now on I really. like V shot its dining room feels much. more formal thanks to the vagin shot. you've installed here is that a DIY vgin.

shot job you did then you get hit over. the head with a purse that's right and. someone says I never so I saw This Old. House said that it's dutch in origin and. it dates back to the 1300s which is it's. really something and imagine that it. basically hasn't changed essentially in. 700 plus years yeah and the cool thing. about Wayne scotting is that it's. adaptable to a bunch of different styles. I mean you're probably not going to see. like a modern or super super.

contemporary house with it you may be. able to get away with it if it's a. certain kind uh but a lot of other. traditional it can go with art deco it. can go obviously and was heavily used in. the Arts and Crafts movement uh but it's. it's a fun way to break up the wall but. it originally served the purpose and. still sort of does as protecting that. lower wall yeah I think that's what it. was originally for and that still is. what it does especially if you have. molding across the top of it that kind.

of finishes it and separates it from the. wall above that's frequently referred to. as a chair rail because it protects your. wall from being banged up by chairs when. people slide them slide them out to get. away from table I never knew that's what. that came from oh really no I mean I. always called it chair rail it can also. be called d d rail because what you were. talking about but I never knew it was to. protect against a chair I had no idea I. love it yeah me too it also technically. protect against Kramer uh in his pool.

queue if you have a pool table set up in. a room that's too small to house a pool. table that's good should we take a break. yes all right we'll be right back. Lear with. josua and. Char Stu you. [Music]. should. [Music].

all right so there are different kinds. of Wayne scotting um there's beadboard. Wayne scotting um you will notice those. distinctive grooves these narrow. vertical planks that's a very common one. that you can buy in large sheets that's. what I thought it was like plain and. simple I did too actually but if you. throw the word like flat panel Wayne. scotting in front of it then that is. just another kind of uh smooth version. but I've always just thought of Wayne.

scotting as being the grooved kind yeah. the bead board yeah uh there's so you. said flat panel and you said that it's. tough to to get Wayne scotting or pull. Wayne scouting off in a modern or. contemporary house you can but it has to. be very sleek and minimal but you could. do it it's very daring all of your. friends in the design Community are. going to say what what a daredevil but. if you pull it off they will fet you. they will have a party in your honor for. it that's right uh oh great use of fet. good word.

uh so there's also overlay and raise. panel Wayne scotting and that's what. you're that's what you're going to find. more of these days which is a panel that. you put over the wall and I kind of. thought that's like it has always been. but apparently uh back in the day it was. actually recessed and built into the. wall itself yeah so it would be even. with the with the wall above it right. yeah so that raised panel Wayne scotting. it it it's not the best name for what it. describes because from what I could tell. if you have what amount to cabinet doors.

on your wall in your dining room but. without handles that would be considered. rais panel Wayne scotting it's like a a. square a square panel yeah with a a a. square routed into uh it maybe like four. inches from the top and the bottom and. the sides and then there's that leaves. another raised Square in the middle of. it right yeah that's raised panel and I. just don't it does not doesn't doesn't. ring a bell with me yeah I mean you saw.

it though right yeah I just tried to. describe it and I didn't do that great. of a job but imagine like a square moat. in like a a raised um a panel a raised. square of wood and there's a square. moat twoth thirds of the way in or a. third of the way in oh my God how about. this imagine if you had one of those. cutting boards that catches the juice. and you screw and you screwed it into. your wall right you just got a bunch of. those and you lined them up evenly there.

there you go that's raised panel imagine. this imagine going on the internet and. searching rais panel L scotting and then. clicking the images and looking through. those oh boy that's great I love it uh. it was usually Oak traditionally in the. past um these days there's all kinds of. other products obviously uh you can have. MDF which is medium density F board uh. plywood um you know the the in my. opinion kind of the cheap stuff you get.

at the Big Box store looks fine because. you're going to end up staining or. painting over it but just make sure it. is a stain grade if you are going to. stain it otherwise it might not look. great uh but you can always paint over. it which is what we've done yeah and. that's how those the the DIY version. where it's really just drywall um. covered with some you know half round or. whatever molding that forms those. squares to make it look like um uh uh. what is it not flat. raised panels man I can't believe it um.

that's that's really it's not hard to do. or no it's not easy to do but it's not. super hard especially if you already. know your way around you know cutting. tools and and miter saws and and like. you said CA guns and finishing nail guns. yeah if you've got if you're doing it in. the big sheets you're you're going to. want to use a table saw um where it gets. difficult and I said earlier you know. it's sort of not too hard as a DIY. project uh where it does get get. difficult and this is especially true in.

older homes uh which we found out you. know our house is from 1935 so there's. not a straight wall or floor in our. house barely uh and then when you go to. put this this beautifully perfectly. rectangular beadboard up and then you've. got a a a strip that's 2 in wide at the. top and it goes down to about a third of. an inch at the bottom and you're just. like oh my Lord uh if you're good at. that kind of stuff it's not so hard but. if that is a challenge for you cutting.

something on a a long long angle like. that it is a challenge for me then it. can get dispiriting is the word I'll use. I saw what you wanted to do is you make. your chair rail even that's all level. and then the base board you you shim and. then caul in so the if you really look. close to the baseboard You' be like oh. that that part of the baseboard has a. little dip to it and you be like get out. of my house yeah I tried really hard to. to cover that up but that's the that's. the savior of uh DIY um Wayne scouting.

projects that caul gun cuz you're. caulking in any grooves or whatever and. then paint priming and paint and then it. does end up looking like just one solid. group of panel wood it's really a neat. thing do you uh know the old. construction term uh measure twice cut. once that's a good one uh and paint. will make it what it ain't oh nice chuck. if that's not that's not something to. end short stuff on I don't know what it.

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