Plywood Planks As Flooring

Plywood also comes with increased stability.

Plywood planks as flooring.

A simple project that can spruce up any room on the cheap. The 1 2 plywood had the perfect amount of give for our project not to mention it was also cheaper than 3 4 plywood. This step takes time and is a lot of work but trust me it is so worth it to put in the extra effort here. Look at the given solid hardwood flooring done with plywood planks beautiful packed spaced and glued together.

The second room we have done with plywood plank flooring. Plywood is a better option than laminate or hardwood flooring. It really took all that nasty yellow rough plywood y looking surface off the planks and transformed them into wide pine boards. This is designed to give a rustic finish to a room.

Many of the projects we have seen use pine plywood sheets with prices between 15 and 25 per sheet and with each sheet covering 32 square feet you quickly see that it s very easy to end up with a new floor self installed for around 1 per square foot. Basements are not recommended for plywood flooring because they re typically a bit damp and a concrete floor can transfer moisture from the soil to the plywood which could cause it to delaminate. Hence it can be the best alternative to hardwood flooring too. If our floors weren t so uneven we could have used 3 4 but the flexibility that a 1 2 plywood has was perfect to conform to our uneven sub floor s contours.

Along with the glue i used 18 gauge brads to hold it tight down to the sub floor. The flooring under our plywood planks is light colored plywood. Low cost no surprise that the number 1 benefit of plywood flooring is the price. The first one was done staining each plank then when they were all dry we installed them.

To prevent that subfloor from showing between the plank spaces we painted it with a really dark brown paint that had an eggshell finish. Only took about 30 minutes to stain the 9 x 11 room we used 3 4 7 ply plywood again but this time got home depot to make the cuts. Diy plywood plank floors quarry orchard featured here 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 15 32 plywood. The plywood plank flooring thickness the plywood plank flooring thickness we used is 1 2 thick.

Should have done it like this the first time.