Wood panelling- nail or glue

[LaserTam]

Mrs has decided she wants to follow the trend and have some panelling in the hall, which will the final 'room' to be redecorated, following us moving in a while back.

I'm thinking 6mm mdf to create the frame. After some limited googling, either glue or nail seem to be preferred in equal measure, so maybe I will get the same here. Majority of the walls will be solid, not stud walls. I think nailing could be tricky, but might be an excuse to buy a light nail gun.

What do you say?

[Baldchap]

If they're solid walls nailing will just make a mess.

But you can still scratch the tool itch... https://dvspowertools.co.uk/shop/power-tools/caulk...

[The teacher]

I used glue and it's stayed on without issue.

[98elise]

Glue.

[allegro]

Panelling is so last week, as is painting things grey. don't do it.

[RichB]

I panelled our loo and finished it with jungle wallpaper and an old French jam pan as a basin! My wife had the idea and asked me to do the panelling, saying it can't be that hard to do I had to box in the cistern, the radiator and the pipework which I did with 2x1. The panels on the battens were screwed but I glued them to the bare walls. The overlay was simply glued on, and covered any screw heads. Finally the skirting and top moulding was glued on.

[Mr_J]

I did both, glued and nailed, but the wall wasn't perfect. I bought a £30 nail gun from Screwfix that fires 20mm (maybe 25mm) nails.

My tip is to make use of B&Q's cutting service and get them to rip a sheet of MDF down into strips.

[Rough101]

I used gripfil type adhesive with the odd pin fired from an air red gun to hold it till cured, done 3 rooms so far but it’s probably going out of fashion now!