Make Plywood Floor Looklike Hardwood

One floor is oak strip flooring made from planned oak moulding.

Make plywood floor looklike hardwood.

Drag it across the plank length wise to create the wood grain pattern. Hold a wood combing tool or wood grain rocker at one end of the plank. I went for a more formal look. I troweled down a marine grade adhesive and installed like tile.

Staggered is more natural if you want it to look like a true hardwood floor. I started with 3 different lengths 5 4 and 1. If you don t like the look of the grain pattern. Tight joints minimal nails.

Yes plywood is a soft wood and yes it will get a little beat up over the years. People who want a very polished sleek floor should not install a plywood floor. The second is 6 inch wide 3 8 thick radiata dunnage boards. When you have the floor covered you are ready to start planking.

I ve already tore up the linoleum and sanded the plywood sub floor. Bare plywood can have many inconsistencies across the surface such as splinters and dust. Unroll the underlayment and staple it down all sides. 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 just love the idea and your floor turned out beautiful. Luckily you ll find tools to simplify every step of the process. I am doing the bathroom floor in an old round log cabin and the bathroom is in a hexes on shape. 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.

The concept is simple enough but the results depend entirely on execution. A solution for situations like this is to sand the plywood and paint it to look like hardwood. So first sand the floor to remove any splinters. You don t want to have two of the same lengths beside each other.

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.