Make Plywood Floor Looklike Hardwood

I just love the idea and your floor turned out beautiful.

Make plywood floor looklike hardwood. I troweled down a marine grade adhesive and installed like tile. So first sand the floor to remove any splinters. Yes plywood is a soft wood and yes it will get a little beat up over the years. The second is 6 inch wide 3 8 thick radiata dunnage boards.

A beautiful plywood floor starts with a smooth texture. You don t want to have two of the same lengths beside each other. Tight joints minimal nails. I started with 3 different lengths 5 4 and 1.

I ve already tore up the linoleum and sanded the plywood sub floor. Plywood flooring is a must to add the type of flooring when need to get an interior look modern will also help insulate the room. One floor is oak strip flooring made from planned oak moulding. I went for a more formal look.

Luckily you ll find tools to simplify every step of the process. Bare plywood can have many inconsistencies across the surface such as splinters and dust. Drag it across the plank length wise to create the wood grain pattern. I was going to lay hardwood flooring but realized it would be a job cutting all the angles needed.

I am doing the bathroom floor in an old round log cabin and the bathroom is in a hexes on shape. Hold a wood combing tool or wood grain rocker at one end of the plank. 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. Staggered is more natural if you want it to look like a true hardwood floor.

A solution for situations like this is to sand the plywood and paint it to look like hardwood. If you don t like the look of the grain pattern. People who want a very polished sleek floor should not install a plywood floor. We didn t have 20k in our flooring budget so we came up with a diy way to get high end looking totally unique wood floors for our 1100 sq foot great room.

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. The concept is simple enough but the results depend entirely on execution.