Making Hardwood Flooring From Lumber

The plywood underneath the real hardwood veneer is referred to as the core board.

Making hardwood flooring from lumber.

The plywood core board is made by stacking the plies one on top of another in opposite directions then glued together. When you bring the flooring in to acclimate stack it in a cris cross pattern. 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. Drag a plastic comb which comes with the wood graining kit lengthwise along plank to form distinct lines of glaze.

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. 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. The best way to make a hardwood spline is shown in the drawings at right.

After you finish the install you can return any unopened boxes to the distributor. Russian olive wood is probably the most distinctive being almost chocolate colored it is a very beautiful wood. Draw the rocker along each plank rocking as you go to redistribute the glaze and produce the wavy lines characteristic of wood grain. In the end i contacted a local excavator that i had purchased white pine from in the past.

I suggest you keep a number of spare boards in case the worst should happen and you need to make a repair. Oak maple walnut all great woods and make beautiful hardwood floors. Step 3 run the lumber through the table saw for the final width of the hardwood floors. But now imagine putting a lot of stress on a miter joint assembled with a thin long grain spline.

See more ideas about flooring wood wood floors. Your floor should be about 5 to 6. But 500 board feet was too costly to have it kiln dried and we didn t have time to wait for air drying. Engineered wood flooring is constructed by gluing together a number of wood plies with a veneer of real hardwood veneer glued on top.

We contacted local saw mills and priced out different varieties of lumber. There are three common hardwood trees in northeast montana they are the ash the siberian elm and the russian olive. 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. Oct 31 2014 explore jolane justice s board uses for leftover hard wood flooring followed by 124 people on pinterest.

Hie spline would likely split along the grain and the joint would come apart.