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. 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. I am doing the bathroom floor in an old round log cabin and the bathroom is in a hexes on shape. People who want a very polished sleek floor should not install a plywood floor.

Tight joints minimal nails. Yes plywood is a soft wood and yes it will get a little beat up over the years. I ve already tore up the linoleum and sanded the plywood sub floor. One floor is oak strip flooring made from planned oak moulding.

When you have the floor covered you are ready to start planking. Luckily you ll find tools to simplify every step of the process. So first sand the floor to remove any splinters. You don t want to have two of the same lengths beside each other.

While hardwood is solid all the way through plywood consists of multiple thicknesses of thin wood veneer layered at angles and then glued and compressed under heat to form a strong laminated. Staggered is more natural if you want it to look like a true hardwood floor. Drag it across the plank length wise to create the wood grain pattern. The concept is simple enough but the results depend entirely on execution.

The second is 6 inch wide 3 8 thick radiata dunnage boards. Hold a wood combing tool or wood grain rocker at one end of the plank. I started with 3 different lengths 5 4 and 1. Bare plywood can have many inconsistencies across the surface such as splinters and dust.

Unroll the underlayment and staple it down all sides. 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. 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. 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.

A beautiful plywood floor starts with a smooth texture. A solution for situations like this is to sand the plywood and paint it to look like hardwood.