Making Hardwood Floors From A Tree

Hardwood floors are beautiful last a lifetime and are easy to install.

Making hardwood floors from a tree.

There are three common hardwood trees in northeast montana they are the ash the siberian elm and the russian olive. Before we get started with how to install hardwood floors let s cover a few basics. This room was only 250 sq ft. This needs to be cut to 1 1 8 inch thick.

With the proper tools and a bit of hard work you can make your own hardwood floors from trees you have harvested yourself. The mill is indexed to lower the correct amount between cuts to make planks slightly over 1 thick. Hardwood flooring is solid wood cut from the tree. After building the sawmill i decided to make some ash flooring for my house.

Russian olive wood is probably the most distinctive being almost chocolate colored it is a very beautiful wood. November 10 2015. We ll cut it off when we turn the planks into flooring. Prepare the material step 1 take the hardwood tree to the saw mill to have them cut down into rough planks.

I decided to use ash for the floor because it s lighter color would brighten the room because it is hard and because i had access to it. Making and installing hardwood floors from a tree. Cuts a log into quarters before it cuts the strips of wood to make hardwood flooring boards. I have about 2000 square feet to do.

You can either pile those pieces off to the side and return them to the mill later to cut the bark off or deal with the bark as part of the milling process. Part of the improvements to our family room included replacing the carpet with hardwood floors. Though it is more expensive than the other methods it is also more stable providing higher quality flooring. Cuts a log at a different angle than quarter sawn before it cuts the wood into hardwood flooring boards.

A perfect project for this idea is to make a hardwood floor with wood from locally grown trees. See more ideas about wood flooring projects wood floors.