Post #786771 by Rheanna on Sat, May 12, 2018 1:50 PM

On 2018-05-12 06:12, RichC wrote:
I know what you mean! I found bamboo very hard to work with, even though I only used a little bit of it in the way you did. I wound the joints in rope to cover the gaps, just as you intend. It works and looks great, besides. One question: how did you nail through the bamboo without it cracking? Did you use thin finishing nails and pre-drill?

We have to use screws to attached the bamboo to the wall (we have concrete walls in most of the kitchen, so we've had to go a bit of an unconventional route with oversized metal drywall anchors!) so we used a countersink drill bit to create pilot holes! We taped over the area we were drilling into with painter's tape just to be safe, but honestly, there were a few times i was on autopilot and drilled without putting tape over the area first, and they still turned out fine! :P We have a few more to do, so I'll take some pics of it today while we're working!