How To Make End Grain Flooring

My saw will cut up to around 5 tall.

How to make end grain flooring.

This is one grain block tile. End grain tiles are also made using the same idea. Cut your own you don t necessarily have to purchase reclaimed end grain tiles to have a wood block floor. You can refinish the tiles to create a gloss end grain floor that looks almost like polished brick or finish it with a satin sealer to capture hypnotic patterns unlike any other flooring.

Lumber or timber is cut into shapes placed in a pattern and sealed onto the floor. Until that day you ll have do do with pictures and wordy paragraphs as i try and test some of the new ways i ve devised to make. So here s where i m at. I made an end grain wood floor from scratch and saved myself 4000.

End grain patterns are more intense and visually dynamic than any other wood grain. I am thrilled with the results and the warm feel or real wood is so much better than the cold feeling of an icy tile or the disingenuous look of a laminate which were my second and thir. How to install end grain flooring. Raise and disengage the blade then remove the 1 inch wood tile that you cut from the board.

Wood walls are also very chic right now and you can get really creative. I ll also throw in some of the information i ve found about end grain flooring as i go along. Having a great wood floor is something that most people dream of but you definitely want to make it stand apart from the rest. Use a bandsaw to cut inch thick slices from a 2x6.

Measure the tile if desired to check the thickness. Check below to learn more about this technique as will as. Adjust the fence if. What makes this wood block flooring so different is that the tiles are actually cut from timber ends.

The look of reclaimed end grain tiles varies with the type of wood. Once the project is finished i ll compile a video of it all so you can see it in a compressed time lapsed way. This not only means that wood s grain is visible and upward facing but also makes wood block flooring incredibly durable from a structural point of view. End grain flooring is a unique type of wood tile flooring.