How To Make My Own Hardwood Flooring

With the proper tools and a bit of hard work you can make your own hardwood floors from trees you have harvested yourself.

How to make my own hardwood flooring.

Make sure there are no squeaks in the floor. 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. This needs to be cut to 1 1 8 inch thick. Fir and pine are very soft wood so it ll get marks and dings easier than a hardwood such as oak.

I decided to use ash for the floor because it s lighter color. Popular uses for this joint are in the creation of doors panels and table tops. Creating your own hardwood floors tongue and groove joint. Any type of wood will work.

When possible begin installation from the straightest longest wall and install the flooring perpendicular to the floor joists. How to lay down your own inexpensive wood floor and make it look gorgeous. Make sure you ve got the right amount of flooring for your space. 6 homemade floor cleaner recipes all purpose wood laminate bathroom tile natural floor cleaning leave the commercial floor cleaners behind make a homemade floor cleaner that will get your floors sparkling clean.

Tips for making your own plank flooring using 1 x 12 lumber. Buy your wood from a local lumber store. Prepare the material step 1 take the hardwood tree to the saw mill to have them cut down into rough planks. Apply a vapor barrier down before installing the wood planks.

Hi gina this is a great project. Some commercial products contain chemicals that can irritate the eyes skin or respiratory. While hardwood floor cleaners abound on the market there are several smart reasons to make your own. Another function for this joint is seen in hardwood floors.

3 techniques to create your hardwood floor panels the tongue and groove joint has proved itself over centuries to be very simple clean and strong. Minimum requirements are a 3 4 plywood sub floor. If there s a squeak screw a long drywall screw into the sub floor and joist where the squeak occurs. You can learn more about my floors including many more questions answered by checking out my other post on how to make your own flooring with 1 8 pine in the diy wood floors post.

Part of the improvements to our family room included replacing the carpet with hardwood floors. Gina the hardwood flooring lady says.