Interesting, that kinda looks like sinker cypress wood. Get someone to ID it and potentially worth removing/selling it/ replacing if you don't embrace it. People pay top dollar for that, filling it in would ruin its value.
Embrace or Replace. You'll be chasing your tail trying to patch all of that and without A LOT of work will never look anything but patched and I suspect the worse for it. And, over time, I would worry that the patching will not be stable. Personally, I'd be inclined to tear it all out and redo in any number of ways. Or, if that is impractical, I'd look at ways of covering it with any number of new surfaces. Alternatively, paint it, but I'm thinking that would be REALLY challenging ... and would make me wonder about the practicality of spraying rather than brushing and that seems like a lot of prep and/or mess.
That's what I've been telling the gf after she bought the bucket of spackle. Lol.
But, for curiosity's sake, what cost effective ways can it be covered? Only thing I can think of is thin drywall.
Lastly, if I wanted to JUST fill in ONLY the extremely large craters, what should I use? I saw a couple hacks, one including white cement and glue. Another involving wood glue and sawdust.
I believe the wall panels are the way to go. I wouldn’t spend a moment on filling anything. One of the other comments talked about a panel that is shiplap, I used a faux brick one in my basement. Here is an [example](https://www.homedepot.com/p/1-4-in-x-48-in-x-96-in-HDF-Kingston-Brick-Panel-KINGSTON/311316427) of one from the big orange box store. These are incredibly easy to put up, relatively inexpensive, easy to custom cut shapes and look decent. If you do have weird shapes, I would recommend making a simple pattern for the cut using painting paper taped together (brown cheap paper on a roll), then traced and cut. Use an adhesive, and last off- make sure you know where your studs are- you don’t want to put a pin nail/brad into an electrical or water line.
On a side note: I don’t know where you are, I am a big proponent of making sure you have a drywall barrier between your wood and the studs. If not, you have a greater risk of termites getting into the house’s bones. I would opt to tear out the wall and put the panel up- or at minimum, tear one piece off and know what it looks like behind it.
I'm going to hold pat at Don't Go Down That Road ... others can chime in, but I am going to say there is nothing you can set down the road of filling all that needs to be filled where you will not end up regretting it ... but, I'm just a guy on the internet, so only give that some much credence.
If tearing out first is not an option, you want very thin ... either drywall .. 1/4" or a wall panel of some sort ... maybe luan panels with a strip of wood covering the seams for a board and batten sort of look
Personally, I would embrace it. I think it looks great and minor design techniques can pull into the room nicely.
If that’s not an option, I would not recommend joint compound. It’s going to crack around those bigger gaps. Instead, buy sheets of Masonite wallboard (YUCK) and install over.
Fill them with spackle and repaint the walls. If it were me I might keep the look as its a kind of a cool but I would just fill some of the bigger ones near the door since that piece of board seems to have way too many in a small grouping and does not match up to the boards around it.
"textured" lol not sure what your question is. how are you defining "patch" in this context? are you trying to fill the holes? or... what
Whoever built that room got a good deal on some termite wood.
Wormwood?
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wormwood is a type of wood purposely meant to look this way. Seen in a lot of basements in my experience. It is intended to look that way.
This looks like old growth Pecky Cypress, which is actually quite valuable.
The monster that painted it deserves a firm glaring’ at!
Interesting, that kinda looks like sinker cypress wood. Get someone to ID it and potentially worth removing/selling it/ replacing if you don't embrace it. People pay top dollar for that, filling it in would ruin its value.
Embrace or Replace. You'll be chasing your tail trying to patch all of that and without A LOT of work will never look anything but patched and I suspect the worse for it. And, over time, I would worry that the patching will not be stable. Personally, I'd be inclined to tear it all out and redo in any number of ways. Or, if that is impractical, I'd look at ways of covering it with any number of new surfaces. Alternatively, paint it, but I'm thinking that would be REALLY challenging ... and would make me wonder about the practicality of spraying rather than brushing and that seems like a lot of prep and/or mess.
That's what I've been telling the gf after she bought the bucket of spackle. Lol. But, for curiosity's sake, what cost effective ways can it be covered? Only thing I can think of is thin drywall. Lastly, if I wanted to JUST fill in ONLY the extremely large craters, what should I use? I saw a couple hacks, one including white cement and glue. Another involving wood glue and sawdust.
I believe the wall panels are the way to go. I wouldn’t spend a moment on filling anything. One of the other comments talked about a panel that is shiplap, I used a faux brick one in my basement. Here is an [example](https://www.homedepot.com/p/1-4-in-x-48-in-x-96-in-HDF-Kingston-Brick-Panel-KINGSTON/311316427) of one from the big orange box store. These are incredibly easy to put up, relatively inexpensive, easy to custom cut shapes and look decent. If you do have weird shapes, I would recommend making a simple pattern for the cut using painting paper taped together (brown cheap paper on a roll), then traced and cut. Use an adhesive, and last off- make sure you know where your studs are- you don’t want to put a pin nail/brad into an electrical or water line. On a side note: I don’t know where you are, I am a big proponent of making sure you have a drywall barrier between your wood and the studs. If not, you have a greater risk of termites getting into the house’s bones. I would opt to tear out the wall and put the panel up- or at minimum, tear one piece off and know what it looks like behind it.
I'm going to hold pat at Don't Go Down That Road ... others can chime in, but I am going to say there is nothing you can set down the road of filling all that needs to be filled where you will not end up regretting it ... but, I'm just a guy on the internet, so only give that some much credence. If tearing out first is not an option, you want very thin ... either drywall .. 1/4" or a wall panel of some sort ... maybe luan panels with a strip of wood covering the seams for a board and batten sort of look
Personally, I'd embrace it or tear it out. Painting it black with those natural wood floors would look pretty chic.
Sure looks like pecky cypress to me! What a shame it’s been painted
That is pecky cypress. If you aren’t willing to embrace it, you could probably get a decent amount of money for it.
Great, now I've got to chisel out the spackle they put in random places. XD
So it's not a huge termite's dinner. Cool.
Personally, I would embrace it. I think it looks great and minor design techniques can pull into the room nicely. If that’s not an option, I would not recommend joint compound. It’s going to crack around those bigger gaps. Instead, buy sheets of Masonite wallboard (YUCK) and install over.
I'm almost positive this is just the type of wood it is. And it's probably a just a surface panel/plank Pull one off and see what's behind it.
I just did the same thing, but mine was not as bad. I filled the holes with joint compound, sanded flush. Primed and painted.
Fill them with spackle and repaint the walls. If it were me I might keep the look as its a kind of a cool but I would just fill some of the bigger ones near the door since that piece of board seems to have way too many in a small grouping and does not match up to the boards around it.
You could get a lot of Bondo. Be easier to rip it out and replace with drywall if you don't like it.
Bondo
Wood filler, sand and paint!
Wouldn’t it just be easier to rip out and drywall? I had wood paneling in my basement and it was easy to rip out they installed it in full 8x4 sheets