Cut Your Own Boards For Flooring

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

Cut your own boards for flooring.

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. Scc cut all the 8 ft planks into 4 ft pieces then cut about 6 of those in half again to 2 ft sections. However if by some chance you don t get them perfectly straight don t panic you can still get them to work. Take the hardwood tree to the saw mill to have them cut down into rough planks.

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. Bi metal with teeth set for all wood plasterboard and plastic materials. 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. Extremely robust unaffected by nails in wood up.

Set up your table saw and cut your boards to 6 inches by 48 inches long. Now cut the new boards to width by running the tongue side against the fence. It will make laying them much easier. Outstanding service life very clean cut and excellent work progress.

This needs to be cut to 1 1 8 inch thick. A table saw is very powerful and when cutting numerous boards can prove to be reliable in the long run. The trick to this step is to try and cut your boards as straight as possible. Rip the new boards.

Get your groove back. 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. Yes i did the sanding hence no photos of that step.

Step 2 send them through the gang saw and have them ripped a full half inch wider than the size flooring you want.