Making Hardwood Floors From A Tree

With the proper tools and a bit of hard work you can make your own hardwood floors from trees you have harvested yourself.

Making hardwood floors from a tree.

There are three common hardwood trees in northeast montana they are the ash the siberian elm and the russian olive. After building the sawmill i decided to make some ash flooring for my house. Hardwood flooring is solid wood cut from the tree. A perfect project for this idea is to make a hardwood floor with wood from locally grown trees.

Making and installing hardwood floors from a tree. This room was only 250 sq ft. Prepare the material step 1 take the hardwood tree to the saw mill to have them cut down into rough planks. Russian olive wood is probably the most distinctive being almost chocolate colored it is a very beautiful wood.

I have about 2000 square feet to do. Cuts a log at a different angle than quarter sawn before it cuts the wood into hardwood flooring boards. Cuts a log into quarters before it cuts the strips of wood to make hardwood flooring boards. Hardwood floors are beautiful last a lifetime and are easy to install.

Before we get started with how to install hardwood floors let s cover a few basics. Though it is more expensive than the other methods it is also more stable providing higher quality flooring. You can either pile those pieces off to the side and return them to the mill later to cut the bark off or deal with the bark as part of the milling process. I decided to use ash for the floor because it s lighter color would brighten the room because it is hard and because i had access to it.

The mill is indexed to lower the correct amount between cuts to make planks slightly over 1 thick. November 10 2015. See more ideas about wood flooring projects wood floors. We ll cut it off when we turn the planks into flooring.

I left the bark on. With no special tools you can go from subfloor to breathtaking in as little as a day.