Cut Your Own Boards For Flooring

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

Cut your own boards for flooring.

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. Get your groove back. The advantage to a table saw is that your cut will be completely clean and sharp giving your joint a nice fit. I sanded each board one by one top ends and knocked the sharp edges off the corners for a worn farmhouse feel.

It will make laying them much easier. Now cut the new boards to width by running the tongue side against the fence. This needs to be cut to 1 1 8 inch thick. For this example i am going to be using a miter saw which is the most common type of saw used and a circular saw which is less common but still very useful.

Outstanding service life very clean cut and excellent work progress. This removes the groove which you ll re create in the next step. Take the hardwood tree to the saw mill to have them cut down into rough planks. However if by some chance you don t get them perfectly straight don t panic you can still get them to work.

A table saw is very powerful and when cutting numerous boards can prove to be reliable in the long run. Extremely robust unaffected by nails in wood up. 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.

The major disadvantage in using a table saw is that your boards need to be cut using multiple passes. Step 2 send them through the gang saw and have them ripped a full half inch wider than the size flooring you want. Set up your table saw and cut your boards to 6 inches by 48 inches long. Scc cut all the 8 ft planks into 4 ft pieces then cut about 6 of those in half again to 2 ft sections.

We cut the boards and dry fitted them in the room to make sure we had the right number of boards.