Finished Plywood Plank Flooring

As you d expect diy rustic wide plank plywood flooring takes much longer to finish than just installing pre made planks.

Finished plywood plank flooring.

Diy installation this is definitely a great diy project. Look at my beautiful pine floor. Look at the given solid hardwood flooring done with plywood planks beautiful packed spaced and glued together. We will point you towards some of the best plywood installation blog posts and videos but all you really need is the ability to get your plywood sheets cut into planks and correctly laid out on your sub floor.

Remove the existing flooring such as carpet or vinyl and then refinish the plywood subfloor beneath or install new plywood cut into planks squares or even. While we love our hardwood floors we know that not every diyer has the budget and if we re keeping it real not every project is worth the splurge for higher end flooring we ve talked about and heard from our readers over on facebook about plywood plank flooring too. Engineered hardwood flooring which is made from a thin layer of solid hardwood bonded to a core of plywood or particleboard is the leading rival to prefinished solid hardwood. Hence it can be the best alternative to hardwood flooring too.

Plywood is a better option than laminate or hardwood flooring. Our plywood pretty week is coming to a close and there s one topic we haven t covered yet. A softwood like pine may work better but is double the cost of the plywood without any real advantages other than to say. Laminate can be pretty but the plywood floor we installed is every bit as pretty.

Everything from cutting the plywood into wide plank boards to sanding staining finishing and installing the plywood planks down all of it diy. This project was the truest sense of diy. Pros and cons of plywood flooring. Additionally the main floor of my house has infloor heating and that may be a problem for a traditional hardwood floor due to expansion and contraction.

It has several things going for it including ease of installation it can be glued down and lower prices. There are two basic ways to go.