Glueing t and g pine cladding vs nailing

It's called "matchboard", or "matching".

If you glue the tongues into the grooves you will have horrendous problems with the timber splitting.

I would not glue it as pine (even kiln dried) has a tendency to contract in centrally heated houses. Nailing in the centre of the board width has the advantage that any shrinkage/expansion is taken up in the t&g's.

Others may think different though...

FYI I have had some (unfinished!) pine contract a little in our bathroom, I didn't expect this due to the humidity / condensation ... strange but true.

Nailing doesn't take all that long once you get a rythym going ;-) my shiplap garage (2.5m x 5m x 2m approx) only took a day or two!

HTH,

Alex.

You can secret-nail through the tongue at an angle, then you won't see the heads of the pins.

A day or two?!?!?!!

Good idea.

Including cuts around windows etc ... sheesh give us s break ;)!

And you can also get clips that fit on the bottom part of the tongue and you nail them to the supporting battens .They are then hidden by the tongue of the next piece . usually the first and last piece have to be nailed to the battens Stuart

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I am getting up to 1mm movement summer to winter in the bathroom on T & G pine.

Vile stuff.

SHE likes it though.

I covered it with so much paint it looks ALMOST as good as MDF...;)

housemartin asked;

I assume you mean glueing it to the wall and not together along the tongue & grooves?

Something like No More Nails would do the trick.

Dave