Make Your Own Hardwood Floor Boards

If you want a wood floor pine is beautiful easy to install and less expensive than most carpet vinyl or hardwood flooring.

Make your own hardwood floor boards.

This removes the groove which you ll re create in the next step. As lovely as they may be doing them on a budget isn t quite so easy so we figured out how to get great wood floors on a small budget. Now cut the new boards to width by running the tongue side against the fence. Apply a vapor barrier down before installing the wood planks.

Make your own flooring with 1 8 pine wood floors they re the corner stone of a custom built beautiful home. 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. Fir and pine are very soft wood so it ll get marks and dings easier than a hardwood such as oak. Get your groove back.

Buy your wood from a local lumber store. Popular uses for this joint are in the creation of doors panels and table tops. Measure the face width of the existing flooring add the width of its tongue then set the table saw s fence that same distance away from the blade. 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.

Run all of the flooring through the machine on one of the long sides and one of the ends. Another function for this joint is seen in hardwood floors. Set up the shaper or router table with a tongue and groove cutter. Any type of wood will work.

Photo by steve maxwell pine makes a terrific finished floor.