Making Hardwood Flooring From Lumber

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.

Making hardwood flooring from lumber.

Oct 31 2014 explore jolane justice s board uses for leftover hard wood flooring followed by 124 people on pinterest. 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. Your floor should be about 5 to 6. But now imagine putting a lot of stress on a miter joint assembled with a thin long grain spline.

Step 3 run the lumber through the table saw for the final width of the hardwood floors. See more ideas about flooring wood wood floors. Oak maple walnut all great woods and make beautiful hardwood floors. I suggest you keep a number of spare boards in case the worst should happen and you need to make a repair.

The best way to make a hardwood spline is shown in the drawings at right. This will help it acclimate quicker. Drag a plastic comb which comes with the wood graining kit lengthwise along plank to form distinct lines of glaze. Hie spline would likely split along the grain and the joint would come apart.

When you bring the flooring in to acclimate stack it in a cris cross pattern. Take the lumber to the planer and run it with the wide jointed edge facing down to the table of the planer. The easiest way to make a hardwood spline is to simply rip a thin strip from a board. Russian olive wood is probably the most distinctive being almost chocolate colored it is a very beautiful wood.

Apply a coat of glaze to a section of the floor using a paint roller. After you finish the install you can return any unopened boxes to the distributor. Draw the rocker along each plank rocking as you go to redistribute the glaze and produce the wavy lines characteristic of wood grain. A perfect project for this idea is to make a hardwood floor with wood from locally grown trees.

In the end i contacted a local excavator that i had purchased white pine from in the past. 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. There are three common hardwood trees in northeast montana they are the ash the siberian elm and the russian olive. But 500 board feet was too costly to have it kiln dried and we didn t have time to wait for air drying.

The plywood core board is made by stacking the plies one on top of another in opposite directions then glued together.