Thread: Replacing damaged VJ boards

I've seen it done on floors by removing the boards, replacing all but one with normal boards and splitting the last, nailing it in place on the joists.

In this case you might be able to remove the architrave from the window and slide them down into position either all together or just the last one. Try sanding the tongue and groove a bit to make it a little easier to slide in.

Cheers

Bryan

You may find the boards are rebated on the bottom edge rather than grooved. If not, just remove the back of the groove from your last board when installing the new.

Rusty's spot-on. Biggest difficulty is to make sure that the replacement boards are exactly the same width as the space to be filled.

Thanks for all you responses. I’ve managed to replace the boards by removing the tongue off the last board. Much easier than I thought!

Why the tongue instead of the back of the groove? Now you have a drafty board.

The last board was much wider than the gap. Wider than the tongue or groove. Had to take a good 20mm off. The boards we got hold of were a bit of a mixed bag.

Originally Posted by Freewheeling

The last board was much wider than the gap. Wider than the tongue or groove. Had to take a good 20mm off. The boards we got hold of were a bit of a mixed bag.

When you work on restoring QLD'ers, your best power tools are a table saw, a thicknesser and a router table! You can make almost anything with that. A little laminate trimmer goes a long way in lieu of a router table.

All I need to figure out now, is how to fit a decent router table into my tool trailer? If I ever get enough spare time, I'll make a Paulk setup.