Cut Your Own Boards For Flooring

Take the hardwood tree to the saw mill to have them cut down into rough planks.

Cut your own boards for flooring.

It will make laying them much easier. The advantage to a table saw is that your cut will be completely clean and sharp giving your joint a nice fit. Set up your table saw and cut your boards to 6 inches by 48 inches long. I sanded each board one by one top ends and knocked the sharp edges off the corners for a worn farmhouse feel.

Rip the new boards. 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. We cut the boards and dry fitted them in the room to make sure we had the right number of boards. Using a saw to cut your boards using some type of saw is the fastest and most common method to cutting laminate flooring but like anything else it does have its drawbacks.

Scc cut all the 8 ft planks into 4 ft pieces then cut about 6 of those in half again to 2 ft sections. Outstanding service life very clean cut and excellent work progress. Step 2 send them through the gang saw and have them ripped a full half inch wider than the size flooring you want. This needs to be cut to 1 1 8 inch thick.

Get your groove back. The trick to this step is to try and cut your boards as straight as possible. Extremely robust unaffected by nails in wood up. Now cut the new boards to width by running the tongue side against the fence.

You could use any type of lumber you like for this project but i really liked the idea of wider plank pine boards that would look a little more like they re original to the house and might even get a little more dinged up with use. This removes the groove which you ll re create in the next step. Bi metal with teeth set for all wood plasterboard and plastic materials. However if by some chance you don t get them perfectly straight don t panic you can still get them to work.

Yes i did the sanding hence no photos of that step.