Making Hardwood Flooring

Mill the flooring step 1 set up the shaper or router table with a tongue and groove cutter.

Making hardwood flooring.

Popular uses for this joint are in the creation of doors panels and table tops. If you re going for the ultimate results make a final pass with 150 grit paper. The plywood underneath the real hardwood veneer is referred to as the core board. Is it more expensive to make your own boards and then cutting the tongue and grooves on a shaper than buying from a retailer.

But 500 board feet was too costly to have it kiln dried and we didn t have time to wait for air drying. I m trying to find out information on buying the lumber from my regular lumber supplier and making my own flooring or is this to time consuming vs buying packaged hardwood flooring. In the end i contacted a local excavator that i had purchased white pine from in the past. Buy your wood from a local lumber store.

Any type of wood will work. Apply more filler where needed then make another pass with 120 grit paper. He still had a few piles of stickered planks that had been air drying for 1 5 years. Fir and pine are very soft wood so it ll get marks and dings easier than a hardwood such as oak.

The ideal tool for the job is an orbital flooring sander. Adjust the fence and cutter height using a scrap piece of material adjust the cutter height and fence position until you have it set up correctly to run your flooring. Make one pass with 100 grit paper to remove excess leveling compound and filler. Engineered wood flooring is constructed by gluing together a number of wood plies with a veneer of real hardwood veneer glued on top.

Another function for this joint is seen in hardwood floors. Oak maple walnut all great woods and make beautiful hardwood floors. Tips for making your own plank flooring using 1 x 12 lumber. The plywood core board is made by stacking the plies one on top of another in opposite directions then glued together.

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. I installed solid hardwood floors for three years as a profession and although i think a solid hardwood floor would last longer can be sanded and is more durable i think you have done an excellent job. If i were to do this and i m actually considering it for my walk in closet floor and my mud room entry area i would leave the gaps min.