Plywood Planks As Flooring

A simple project that can spruce up any room on the cheap.

Plywood planks as flooring. The second room we have done with plywood plank flooring. The plywood plank flooring thickness the plywood plank flooring thickness we used is 1 2 thick. The strips are laid tight to each other and are actually glued down to the sub floor using polyurethane construction adhesive. Basements are not recommended for plywood flooring because they re typically a bit damp and a concrete floor can transfer moisture from the soil to the plywood which could cause it to delaminate.

Many of the projects we have seen use pine plywood sheets with prices between 15 and 25 per sheet and with each sheet covering 32 square feet you quickly see that it s very easy to end up with a new floor self installed for around 1 per square foot. Along with the glue i used 18 gauge brads to hold it tight down to the sub floor. This time we installed the planks then stained all at once. The 1 2 plywood had the perfect amount of give for our project not to mention it was also cheaper than 3 4 plywood.

Plywood is a better option than laminate or hardwood flooring. Only took about 30 minutes to stain the 9 x 11 room we used 3 4 7 ply plywood again but this time got home depot to make the cuts. Look at the given solid hardwood flooring done with plywood planks beautiful packed spaced and glued together. Low cost no surprise that the number 1 benefit of plywood flooring is the price.

Plywood also comes with increased stability. Diy plywood plank floors quarry orchard featured here shannon installed her plank look plywood flooring in her bonus room above the garage over 6 years ago at the end of 2010 using 6 inch planks of 15 32 plywood. The first one was done staining each plank then when they were all dry we installed them. Should have done it like this the first time.

To prevent that subfloor from showing between the plank spaces we painted it with a really dark brown paint that had an eggshell finish. This step takes time and is a lot of work but trust me it is so worth it to put in the extra effort here. It really took all that nasty yellow rough plywood y looking surface off the planks and transformed them into wide pine boards. The flooring under our plywood planks is light colored plywood.

If our floors weren t so uneven we could have used 3 4 but the flexibility that a 1 2 plywood has was perfect to conform to our uneven sub floor s contours.