Make Plywood Floor Looklike Hardwood

Hold a wood combing tool or wood grain rocker at one end of the plank.

Make plywood floor looklike hardwood.

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. 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. One floor is oak strip flooring made from planned oak moulding. When you have the floor covered you are ready to start planking.

If you don t like the look of the grain pattern. Tight joints minimal nails. People who want a very polished sleek floor should not install a plywood floor. I ve already tore up the linoleum and sanded the plywood sub floor.

So first sand the floor to remove any splinters. Drag it across the plank length wise to create the wood grain pattern. The concept is simple enough but the results depend entirely on execution. You don t want to have two of the same lengths beside each other.

The second is 6 inch wide 3 8 thick radiata dunnage boards. Staggered is more natural if you want it to look like a true hardwood floor. I troweled down a marine grade adhesive and installed like tile. A solution for situations like this is to sand the plywood and paint it to look like hardwood.

Luckily you ll find tools to simplify every step of the process. A beautiful plywood floor starts with a smooth texture. I started with 3 different lengths 5 4 and 1. Bare plywood can have many inconsistencies across the surface such as splinters and dust.

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 went for a more formal look. 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. I was going to lay hardwood flooring but realized it would be a job cutting all the angles needed.

I am doing the bathroom floor in an old round log cabin and the bathroom is in a hexes on shape. Unroll the underlayment and staple it down all sides.