Cut Your Own Wood Flooring

Put the end against a 3 4 inch spacer and seat the edge snugly against its neighbor.

Cut your own wood flooring.

Now cut the new boards to width by running the tongue side against the fence. In a past life i had thought of the idea of buying solid oak plywood cutting it into strips and using it as inexpensive solid oak flooring and i was told that i was an idiot and carpet was chosen instead a far more expensive option when i had already exhausted my budget. One of the most popular uses for cutting wood floor planks with this saw is cutting the planks lengthwise also known as a rip cut. I left the bark on.

Run all of the flooring through the machine on one of the long sides and one of the ends. The second cut will produce a piece that has two good faces but bark on two edges. That piece is a keeper. 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.

Often when you cut like this the saw will cut out stringy wood. That gives you a guide of sorts. Don t try and cut from the top down straight through. The saw will wander all over.

A circular saw is sort of like a table saw just with the portability of a reciprocating saw. Make sure when you make the mark to cut off the wall side not the room side. Set up the shaper or router table with a tongue and groove cutter. Scc cut all the 8 ft planks into 4 ft pieces then cut about 6 of those in half again to 2 ft sections.

Find a piece and lay it alongside the hole and flip it over. Start by cutting a line all the way down where you want your cut to go. Cut the last length to fit leaving a 3 4 inch expansion gap and nail it in place. We ll cut it off when we turn the planks into flooring.

Make sure to always cut the wall end of the wood so that you do not cut off the groove that fits to the tongue. Planks can be cut with a hand saw circular saw or flooring cutter and most laminate flooring comes in planks that simply snap together with a tongue and groove system making it quick and relatively trouble free. 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. 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.

Cut it straight through the center to make it manageable for your band saw. Yes i did the sanding hence no photos of that step. I sanded each board one by one top ends and knocked the sharp edges off the corners for a worn farmhouse feel. How to lay down your own inexpensive wood floor and make it look gorgeous.

Put the first board of the new row in place. This removes the groove which you ll re create in the next step. If that happens that would result in a pretty big gap.