Make Your Own Parquet Flooring 1 4 Plywood

How to lay down your own inexpensive wood floor and make it look gorgeous.

Make your own parquet flooring 1 4 plywood.

Make your own flooring with 1 8 pine wood floors they re the corner stone of a custom built beautiful home. This creates lightweight tiles that are easy to install. Today on modern builds we re using plywood to create an insane patterned wood floor with limited tools. As lovely as they may be doing them on a budget isn t quite so easy so we figured out how to get great wood floors on a small budget.

Plywood sheets are 4 8 which is 32 square feet. The thickness of wood parquet flooring varies from 5 16 to 3 4. In a past life i had thought of the idea of buying solid oak plywood cutting it into strips and using it as inexpensive solid oak flooring and i was told that i was an idiot and carpet was chosen instead a far more expensive option when i had already exhausted my budget. The strips of wood are bonded to either a plywood backing or a mesh made from plastic paper or cloth.

The last step depends on the condition of your plywood you may need to give the floor a quick sand to remove any sharp edges or rough areas. Our plywood pretty week is coming to a close and there s one topic we haven t covered yet. Altogether the floor took about 4 hours to cut and lay. Our floor was smooth so we were lucky and didn t have to do any sanding.

Plywood flooring is a must to add the type of flooring when need to get an interior look modern will also help insulate the room. We needed to install about 800 square feet of flooring up in the studio space with the attached bedroom and balcony. Which meant we needed about 25 sheets of plywood. At less than 18 per sheet my price per square foot came in at about 50 cents which is complete insanity.