Plywood planks as flooring. 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. She originally shared the tutorial with us here on remodelaholic and we get a lot of questions about her floors so here is her update. Diy plywood plank floors. Pros and cons of plywood flooring.
What if you just laid plywood flooring then routered out the lines to make it look like planks. 1 we chose plywood floors because of cost. Shannon installed her plank look plywood flooring in her bonus room above the garage over 6 years ago at the end of 2010 using 6 inch planks of 1532 plywood. The reason i used 1 12 was because my plywood sub floor was 34 and the plywood flooring i was putting down was 12 thick.
The way plywood is made with the layers stacked in alternate directions is really stable and doesnt move anywhere close to as much as solid wood planks. Sure i understand the process did you put the plywood planks on the cement floor or did you put a wood in between the plywood planks in the concrete floor and if so how did you adhere the wood to the concrete. So i found the plywood i wanted took a photo of the price tag and walked up to the customer service desk. A simple project that can spruce up any room on the cheap.
This is designed to give a rustic finish to a room. I placed an order for 25 sheets and i asked for each sheet to be cut down into 8 planks lengthwise which meant there was no waste exactly six planks from each sheet. As youd expect diy rustic wide plank plywood flooring takes much longer to finish than just installing pre made planks. After a ton of research online i decided to try plywood plank flooring which is an economical solution that looks pretty nice too.
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. 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. I do like the look that the gaps give our floors but if i do these floors again somewhere else id make them much smaller. All the way from cutting plywood into wide plank boards to sanding staining finishing and installing the plywood planks down all of it diy.
Diy installation this is definitely a great diy project.