Make Your Own Hardwood Floor Boards

Buy your wood from a local lumber store.

Make your own hardwood floor boards. Run all of the flooring through the machine on one of the long sides and one of the ends. Now cut the new boards to width by running the tongue side against the fence. If you want a wood floor pine is beautiful easy to install and less expensive than most carpet vinyl or hardwood flooring. Rip the new boards.

Creating your own hardwood floors tongue and groove joint. 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. Apply a vapor barrier down before installing the wood planks. Popular uses for this joint are in the creation of doors panels and table tops.

Set up the shaper or router table with a tongue and groove cutter. 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. 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. Any type of wood will work.

Tips for making your own plank flooring using 1 x 12 lumber. This removes the groove which you ll re create in the next step. 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.

Photo by steve maxwell pine makes a terrific finished floor.