How To Finish Rough Sawn Flooring

It imparts a rustic ambiance that you just can t get using milled lumber.

How to finish rough sawn flooring.

Stocked in random width our rough sawn flooring requires only light sanding which can easily be done by hand allowing the do it yourself person to complete this floor start to finish. Be especially careful to smooth any runs or drips. 6 4 1 inches rough cut. 4 4 1 inch rough cut.

In this video i show you some easy woodworking finishing techniques to get the perfect finish on your next reclaimed wood project for a full write up check o. Making this the perfect low maintenance floor. Once completed the varied surface created by the saw marks hides the abuse from high traffic pets etc. Also the overall appearance of the floors when you enter the room is this looks great.

A proper finish keeps rough wood supple prevents it from fading cracking and enhances its natural beauty. Use an oil based paintbrush if you are applying oil based stain. There were some tricky folding closet doors cut to fit new floors and 4 regular doors. Rough milled lumber is sold in numerical units.

It s fuzzy with exposed fibers with an inconsistent surface. Rough sawn flooring is not designed to be perfectly flat so this makes laying and sanding the flooring much easier than smooth finish wood floors. 8 4 2 inches rough cut. Cleanup was thorough and the floors appear to be installed well but what do we know about what might occur down the road other than the finish.

Use a latex paintbrush if you are applying latex stain. Remember the finishing process subtracts inch such that a rough cut one inch board is only about inch when finished. By charles peterson issue 269 aug sept 2017. Apply the stain to the rough cut lumber using the 3 to 4 inch paintbrush and working from left to right.

And what type of wood is best used for flooring. Finishing rough sawn flooring if you re installing the new flooring parallel to the existing nail down floor use a plywood underlayment first to avoid large gaps. Marks lumber flooring goes down more quickly and efficiently than many rough sawn floors due to our defect removal and end matched material. Rough cut lumber is just what the name implies.