Making Hardwood Flooring From Lumber

Draw the rocker along each plank rocking as you go to redistribute the glaze and produce the wavy lines characteristic of wood grain.

Making hardwood flooring from lumber.

Your floor should be about 5 to 6. The plywood core board is made by stacking the plies one on top of another in opposite directions then glued together. Step 3 run the lumber through the table saw for the final width of the hardwood floors. Make multiple passes not removing more than an eighth of an inch per pass down to a final thickness of three quarters of an inch.

You will not be able to change the moisture in your floor so just make sure the flooring is within 2 of the sub floor and you should not have problems. But 500 board feet was too costly to have it kiln dried and we didn t have time to wait for air drying. When you bring the flooring in to acclimate stack it in a cris cross pattern. Oct 31 2014 explore jolane justice s board uses for leftover hard wood flooring followed by 124 people on pinterest.

See more ideas about flooring wood wood floors. Russian olive wood is probably the most distinctive being almost chocolate colored it is a very beautiful wood. The easiest way to make a hardwood spline is to simply rip a thin strip from a board. Hie spline would likely split along the grain and the joint would come apart.

Oak maple walnut all great woods and make beautiful hardwood floors. Hardwood flooring is a beautiful addition to any home and if you re interested fred has an excellent guide for installing hardwood flooring available at that link. We contacted local saw mills and priced out different varieties of lumber. The plywood underneath the real hardwood veneer is referred to as the core board.

A perfect project for this idea is to make a hardwood floor with wood from locally grown trees. The best way to make a hardwood spline is shown in the drawings at right. But now imagine putting a lot of stress on a miter joint assembled with a thin long grain spline. Apply a coat of glaze to a section of the floor using a paint roller.

Take the lumber to the planer and run it with the wide jointed edge facing down to the table of the planer. After you finish the install you can return any unopened boxes to the distributor. Drag a plastic comb which comes with the wood graining kit lengthwise along plank to form distinct lines of glaze. This will help it acclimate quicker.

In the end i contacted a local excavator that i had purchased white pine from in the past.