Dyi Plywood Strip Floors

Our plywood pretty week is coming to a close and there s one topic we haven t covered yet.

Dyi plywood strip floors.

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. Here s how to lay a plywood floor. 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. 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.

This project was the truest sense of diy. Yes plywood is a soft wood and yes it will get a little beat up over the years. One floor is oak strip. People who want a very polished sleek floor should not install a plywood floor.

The higher the traffic the more they ll probably wear down. 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. Diy wide plank floors made from plywood diy. Instead of spending hours cutting huge boards of plywood into strips we opted to have ours cut to size for us.

Use spacers apply grout and finish with water based polyurethane for shine on the wood grains. To install plywood flooring you need the nails to sink into the joists and nowhere else. It looks cheap and is old dirty and cracked anyway. 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.

Everything from cutting the plywood into wide plank boards to sanding staining finishing and installing the plywood planks down all of it diy. 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. We have 1940s linoleum tile flooring probably asbestos but who knows that i was planning to go over. I really wanted old looking white floors for our new studio space.

Start by measuring your room and calculating the amount of wood you ll need. Full plans here modernbuilds. This makes the new flooring more secure and eliminates holes in the subfloor.