Wood ceiling.

[ErikSteven]

I don't post here much, but figured I would share one of my current projects.

Section of house we were doing is between original house and existing garage. So framing was not great. We put up standard T&G then installed these solid pine beams. We had to dado beams to cover some of the LVLs and other framing. The upper 8x8 had close to an inch of scribe to make everything work, we took 1-1/4 out of the center of the beams on the ground, then scribed to the ceilings up on the stage. 6x6 covered the exposed LVLs which required a dado of 4" wide and 2-3/4" deep allowing a 1/2" of scribe once in place. We did the routing with an old 1400 which was getting tired by the end. Wish I had a 2200 and I'd buy one in the future to do this again.

We normally install cabinetry and trim so this was a little out of the norm for us. I'll post more pics when complete.

 

[antss]

Impressive work.  I bet the of1400 was tired after that.

Did you consider wrapping the LVLs with the old pine ?  Using 3/4" material and lock miters would make things easy to handle.  Assuming 3/4" is available too you.  It's often not when that recycled stuff is specified. 

 

[mike_aa]

Nice work.  Thanks for sharing!  Please post more as you finish.

Mike A.

 

[ErikSteven]

I absolutely would have preferred the 3/4" w/ lock miter. That's how we have done in he past.
Builder wanted solid so that's what he got. They also wanted lots of pegs and tenons in which I'm not a fan of. It's going to look to busy with as much as they want in it.

 

[ErikSteven]

Here is a pic of one we did with miterlocked beams. Much easier to work with.

 

[Gr8trim4u]

Very nice work!!

My back is just aching looking at those bad boys.
Hope you have a lift or some really young guys.