Building Curved Archways

Bob Schmidt shows you a building product that will help you build something with a curve in it.

Hi I’m Bob Schmidt with Home Remodel Workshop. Sometimes during your project there’s architectural elements that already exist in you house such as archways and columns and you would really love the building to match. Some people are freaked out by that, they think that that’s too difficult and something that they can’t do. But there’s a building a product available to that could help you out. I’ll show you what it is. Let’s get to work. What we have here is plywood; it’s specifically engineered to bend. When they put all these laminate pieces together, they put all the wood grain in the same direction and be the install wood, it looks like a fiber wood in between the lairs. What does plywood would do without wedding, without any scoring or cutting, is it’s made to bend. Which as you can see, if you were to need a column built in you house or if you even need to cut a smaller pieces of this off to make a curved archway, to either put dry wall or plaster lath or anything around, this plywood is exactly what you need. In tight spots and toss spots where I just can’t come up with other materials that will give me a nice uniform nailing surface, this is the stuff I always go with. It’s probably 3 times more expensive that you’re typical half-inched plywood, but it’s worth every penny in it in any amount of time you say it. This plywood can be ordered so that it bends in either direction. Either you can order it so it bends the four foot direction or if you have a large barrel ceiling or something that you’re building you can order so that it bends the eight foot direction. It can’t bend both if you want to hang a potato chip you’re going to have to get something else. But this will really help you out in the situations where you need an exact curve as a good base for a quarter inch dry wall and I’ve even had dry wall ask me if they could finish this directly because it’s porous to hold mud and we’ve allowed them to do it and we’ve had a great finish product. I just want to let you know of this product, it could help you out in the pitch. I’m Bob Schmidt with Home Remodel Workshop. If you like this video please subscribe, if not check out our home channel, we got many other videos there. Thank you.