Making Ypur Own Wood Flooring

How to make a wood floor from raw wood by jim wildman.

Making ypur own wood flooring. Air dried won t cut it you want to keep the boards about 3 4 thick because you need about a 1 4 thick tongue with that wide a solid wood board. How to lay down your own inexpensive wood floor and make it look gorgeous. Popular uses for this joint are in the creation of doors panels and table tops. You can make your own cleaners and add shine to hardwood floors and other flooring types with very little effort.

One essential transition strip is the reducer and fortunately it s a simple thing to make using tools you already have on hand. Tips for making your own plank flooring using 1 x 12 lumber. In a past life i had thought of the idea of buying solid oak plywood cutting it into strips and using it as inexpensive solid oak flooring and i was told that i was an idiot and carpet was chosen instead a far more expensive option when i had already exhausted my budget. Fir and pine are very soft wood so it ll get marks and dings easier than a hardwood such as oak.

Make your own wood polish with these recipes. I wouldn t buy anything over 8 moisture content. Check out our recipes. Prepare the material step 1 take the hardwood tree to the saw mill to have them cut down into rough planks.

Another function for this joint is seen in hardwood floors. There is no need to buy expensive polishing products to make your floors sparkle. With the proper tools and a bit of hard work you can make your own hardwood floors from trees you have harvested yourself. Making your own flooring is a big step with alot of things to keep track of.

Make your own flooring with 1 8 pine wood floors they re the corner stone of a custom built beautiful home. As lovely as they may be doing them on a budget isn t quite so easy so we figured out how to get great wood floors on a small budget. A good floor man also pays attention to the details and part of those details are the transition strips that connect the wood floor to the other floor coverings in the home. Buy your wood from a local lumber store.

Any type of wood will work. Apply a vapor barrier down before installing the wood planks. Make a short test cut to check that it s in the right place then when everything meets your satisfaction run all the trimmed boards through the saw with their undersides against the fence. This needs to be cut to 1 1 8 inch thick.