Knotty Pine ceilings

Hi folks,

A friend of mine was installing Knotty Pine ceilings and he found that it was difficult to knock in the panel pins to hold the boards up.

I thought about it for a while and we decided to do 2 things:

Firstly:

We made “T” clamps that reached from the floor to the ceiling to hold the ceiling boards in place which then left our hands free to knock in the panel pins.

Secondly:
I cut the head off a panel pin and used it as a drill to drill through the ceiling boards into the cross members of the roof supports where we were putting up the ceiling. This gave us a pilot hole to insert the panel pin into, thus not having to hold the panel pin whilst knocking it in and avoiding hitting our fingers.

We found the job of fitting the ceiling boards took ½ the time, one of us drilling and the other hammering in the pins behind.

I hope this helps you with your ceiling problems and of course this principle can be used for numerous other jobs.