Make Your Own Hardwood Floor Boards

3 techniques to create your hardwood floor panels the tongue and groove joint has proved itself over centuries to be very simple clean and strong.

Make your own hardwood floor boards.

Another function for this joint is seen in hardwood floors. Make your own flooring with 1 8 pine wood floors they re the corner stone of a custom built beautiful home. Fir and pine are very soft wood so it ll get marks and dings easier than a hardwood such as oak. This removes the groove which you ll re create in the next step.

Creating your own hardwood floors tongue and groove joint. 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. 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. Set up the shaper or router table with a tongue and groove cutter.

Now cut the new boards to width by running the tongue side against the fence. Apply a vapor barrier down before installing the wood planks. Popular uses for this joint are in the creation of doors panels and table tops. If you want a wood floor pine is beautiful easy to install and less expensive than most carpet vinyl or hardwood flooring.

Rip the new boards. Any type of wood will work. Run all of the flooring through the machine on one of the long sides and one of the ends. Buy your wood from a local lumber store.

Photo by steve maxwell pine makes a terrific finished floor.