Dyi Plywood Strip Floors

People who want a very polished sleek floor should not install a plywood floor.

Dyi plywood strip floors. Yes plywood is a soft wood and yes it will get a little beat up over the years. Everything from cutting the plywood into wide plank boards to sanding staining finishing and installing the plywood planks down all of it diy. It looks cheap and is old dirty and cracked anyway. Take the plywood into strips and cut the parallelograms that can be fit together making a hexagon and a 3d plywood flooring with a repeated wood cub pattern.

This makes the new flooring more secure and eliminates holes in the subfloor. To install plywood flooring you need the nails to sink into the joists and nowhere else. Use spacers apply grout and finish with water based polyurethane for shine on the wood grains. I actually saw some interesting beat up knotty oak at lumber liquidators for a little more than a dollar per square foot which is practically highway robbery when it comes to wood flooring prices.

Here s how to lay a plywood floor. We have 1940s linoleum tile flooring probably asbestos but who knows that i was planning to go over. While we love our hardwood floors we know that not every diyer has the budget and if we re keeping it real not every project is worth the splurge for higher end flooring we ve talked about and heard from our readers over on facebook about plywood plank flooring too. Instead of spending hours cutting huge boards of plywood into strips we opted to have ours cut to size for us.

A plywood floor is more work to install than laminate but it will last much longer too especially if you buy the cheaper laminates in the price ranges you are talking about. The higher the traffic the more they ll probably wear down. The plywood would be softer than the oak flooring so it s a bit more prone to dings scratches but i think the paint would hold up about the same as it has on the oak. As you d expect diy rustic wide plank plywood flooring takes much longer to finish than just installing pre made planks.

We have oak strip flooring in the living room and dining room and ugly tile they ripped up the oak strip flooring in the hallway on the first floor. This project was the truest sense of diy. Laying out and cutting the planks of plywood to the correct lengths not widths is the most difficult parts of this diy plywood flooring project. Diy wide plank floors made from plywood diy.

One floor is oak strip. Full plans here modernbuilds. Our plywood pretty week is coming to a close and there s one topic we haven t covered yet.