That's not hardwood dummy...
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- Опубліковано 14 лют 2024
- In this video, we are refinishing an old pine sub floor. Sub floors can be refinished like we are doing in this video.
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These old homes have better sub floor than today. Better craftsmanship also.
And asbestos.
@@thenextension9160Sometimes. Not always. No asbestos on my old house-it was built before asbestos was used in residential construction. Let’s talk about lead paint instead.
@@jill-of-all-trades that's no joke. I had a cousin who died from lead paint poisoning. His brothers had lead poisoning as well, but survived. They were neurologically affected to different degrees. Be careful, folks!
@@a.humanbeing8171 ..damn, that heavy..
Nah, it's the same craftsmanship but better materials were cheaper even just 50 years ago. That's the biggest difference; builders are just as cheap as they've always been, but it's a lot easier now to do something that looks okay on the outside but is made entirely of cardboard and prayers.
"It doesn't matter if you like the look." Truer words were never spoken.
...on so many levels.
@@itsthelittlethings100the levels that have floors...
Wouldn't say truer words have never been said, heard someone the other day say "Biden and Trump are both fucking arseholes", now those words are hard to beat.
Punctuation is key. 😅
No, that's not what the person said. The person said: "It doesn't really matter, if you like the look." Your comment doesn't make sense. The comma makes all the difference!
I bought a house with 10" planks with square nails. Not sure if subflooring, but I sealed it with a warm honey color, and it is beautiful.
My parent's house was like that, except they were 6". The house was built in 1854. They were painted brown. I remember tearing them up when we redid the kitchen and dining room about 30 years ago. All the other rooms had 2" hardwood.
No they didn't have subflooring way back then.. just flooring.. 😂
@@Gunter_Customexactly. You were pretty well off too if you had wood floors in some places
10’ or 10”? Big difference 😅
@@sledawgpilotour 1931 two story has solid oak floors, trim, fireplace exterior and mantle as well as the kitchen cabinets. All original. The front and side doors are also the original solid oak with glass. All the walls are still the original plaster except for the upstairs bathroom and a doorway we removed that went from the downstairs bathroom to the attached garage.
Thank you for this! I live in the 104yo house my grandparents bought in 1940 that I inherited when my mom died. It's carpeted throughout, but I need to remove all the carpeting, and I wanted to just have the soft pine floors that are under all the carpeting, but everyone keeps telling me, "that's only subflooring, you still HAVE TO put something on top of it." But I like the pine floors! These homes weren't built to have hardwood floors. Like your video, these floors can look gorgeous with a little work, and they have lasted over 100 years so far, there's no reason they can't last another 100. I appreciate seeing for real that these floors can just be refinished, because I don't need to do it more than once, and I don't mind the character of nails and imperfections. Humans aren't perfect, I'm not perfect, neither should my floors be. Thanks again SO MUCH! This is so helpful.
LOVE TO SEE IT WHEN UR DONE
For safety, maybe try to find the same type of wood that is there, so it would look the same, but also be stronger. It sounds like you have a very nice looking floor and I doubt that I'm the only one who would want to see pictures when it's done.
What’s under the subfloor? A full basement or a crawlspace? Removing the upper layer can let stuff up from below.
My whole upstairs floors are pine and it’s really pretty but it dents easy being it’s a softer lumber. I see why my ground floor is all oak.
So nice to hear someone say the love the imperfections in their home! Enjoy the beauty of aging❤❤❤
I love the look of the nails
"Rustic top-nailed old growth pine" ... what's not to like?
Many old homes in the north east have face nailed floors that were always intended to be the finished product. A lot of them were heart pine. Absolutely beautiful.
@@chrisanthony579 same here in Europe, older houses have wooden floors with nails.
Me too
Till they pop out and you put your bare foot through it. My house has a pattern that requires topnails. It sucks ass.
A few decades back, my first full time job was on a construction crew. We were restoring a 2 story queen Ann victorian that had a 2 story atic. It had 12" base boards, a foyer with a soap stone fire place that had a wrap around oak mantle, and rickrack above the large entry ways. We stripped, dipped, and/or sanded all the wood I the house including the rail on the curved stairway up to the 2nd floor. It was absolutely beautiful under all that paint.
Under all that paint 😂😂 oh hell nah I know yall didn't sand through 100 years of paint. Ain't no way you making money on a job like that
@@RealName-ox9tkI think you missed the word stripped. Chemical strippers are miracles.
Well, that's good to know. Gonna say my boss just didn't know 😅
@RealName-ox9tk Bought the house for $15k, sold it 9 months later for $95k. That was in the early 90s. At the time it was the most expensive house to ever sell in that town. We didn't make a ton on it, but it generated some really good paying jobs for several years afterwards.
@nospam3409 that's cool man. I wish we had used chemical strippers when we did out paint removal. Thanks for the story, I've done some homes like that. Did "historic restoration" for 8 years. You get to see the art behind the craft.. it's almost sad how commercialized everything has become. So much artistic detail is lost.
Excellent choice to take care of this beautiful sub-floor❤❤
It is really hard to find old wood like this these days.
This is amazing, great wood to work with. Good job❤
I live in a small village in south Sweden. The new owners of the oldest house just ripped out 130 year old pine floors, and where going to the dump with them.
I said - Ill take it all!
So - half of them became the new flooring in our wardrobe.
Sanded and used Rubio Oil +2C. Finished with Rubio Sheen.
The other half was broken. I sanded them down and made boards for our night stands and bed.
Beautiful result, sanded and used Rubio oil and Sheen.
Beautiful result - you can hardly find wood like that anymore.
I paid them one bottle of wine for it, placed the wood on my shoulder, and walked the half mile down the road to our house.
Then I repeted the process almost 3o times.
Yep. Worth it 😂❤❤
We remodeled a house from the 1850's 2 years ago. The subfloor was heart pine. It came out beautifully.
And you now have cold floors. Low iq
That had to look amazing
That wood costs a fortune to buy, if you can find it.
@@keithmarlowe5569Yup. All the sufficiently sized trees went into houses or fires in the 1800’s. Not much left!
I am so jealous lol. I’m remodeling my home from the 1970s one room at a time. Anytime I tear something up, all that’s under it is concrete, mold, and platic
former home depot flooring sales dude, customers would KILL for planking with the top-nail look, i think that'd be a fairly popular lvp floor. very tastefully done, great work!
Exactly!! We put plank wood flooring in our old Victorian house before we sold it and it was beautiful ❤️ I was so sad when it sold lol
Well, you cannot get a wood like that ina store anymore, and definetely not at Home Depot :)
We have that look in two bedrooms of our “farmhouse”. Looks good!
@@dmitripogosian5084 100%. Just finished renovating an old college theatre building and had to cut several hatches in the roof deck. The roof planks were 110 year old Douglas fir, still looked brand new, and had 4+ times as many growth rings per inch as any of the new DF lumber we used. The quality of everything is garbage these days.
@@dmitripogosian5084 Depends on the store. A junk/antique shop near me was recently selling dozens of old victorian era oak floorboards. Fantastic stuff for woodworking.
If it's wood you can sand and finish it. Like you said the nails are going to screw you up a little bit, but if you take the time to counter sink them, they're no longer a problem
I impressed how good you made look
One of my first apartments had the original subfloors, and the landlord refinished them right before we moved in. Handsdown, the most beautiful floors I've ever had, got so many compliments on them, too.
A few years back we removed the carpet in the upstairs. Flooring guy planned to install hardwood over the subfloor - but I thought it was so gorgeous, I couldn't see covering it. Yeah, it's weird that there is a small knothole that you can see clear to the first floor - but who cares. :-)
Isn't it really loud?
You should cover it with a picture of an eye
you take a piece of matching grain wood make a tapered round bung... (sorry it is what it is called), 3/8th bigger than the hole, and then hammer it in until the hole is to good wood. Make sure the grain goes the same way, sand it down and hole be gone. Have fun!
Could just fill those in with saw dust and wood glue a saw dust from similliar color wood would just make it look like a knot again
That's perfect for a toy/play room for kiddos or storage, doesn't need much and doesn't cost an arm and an eye to fix.
I was helping to restore this 1920s house once, removed laminate flooring to reveal the most beautiful oak flooring under it. Sometimes you get a pleasant surprise
My moms house has carpeting. under the carpeting is half inch thick solid pecan parkay flooring.
@@user-fo4ve5fo4znice!! Are you going to rip out the carpet?
The 1924 Dutch colonial I bought in 2015 had a layer of tile and two layers of laminate in the kitchen. I thought it was hopeless but I tried it anyway and dug and scraped down to the original oak floor just to see what shape it was in. After a ton of sanding it turned out to be gorgeous. Not perfect, but to be 100 years old it’s beautiful. :)
@@ceebee5848 someone in another comment put it rather poetically: We are imperfect humans, and having an imperfect floor is just so fitting. And if you've done all the work to refinish it, be proud because the imperfections actually make it perfect.
(Reminds me of that Japanese handicraft-art where they fix cracks/broken things with some metal, resulting in imperfect objects being elevated so much they are perfect... I forgot what it's called.)
Edit: It's called *_kintsugi_*
I love the look of the nails. In my childhood home you saw the nails and everything. I loved it.
AGREED! The old phone sub floors in my 1890 house in Denver were beautiful refinished. I loved all the "flaws"
As someone who spent 30yrs in the Hardwood flooring industry. There's nothing wrong with what he's done. Great job
My neighbor tore out their basement floors on a late 1800s home, and threw it all out because it was pine. Silly man who had them tear it out, didn't know it was heart pine. I took it all.
Saves money as well.
Sub floor in a house I'm remodeling is rough oak. It's laid diagonally across the floor joists. The hoarder woman that lived there warped and rotted out so much of it that it couldn't be recovered. This would include the actual 3/4 in oak floors that were on top of it that were edged nailed with square concrete nails.Pulling those nails out of oak is no easy task.I even had to replace 28 full length floor joists in the kitchen and one bedroom that had been wet for years. The 2x4s in the walls are oak as well and are actual 2x4 measurement. The walls are plaster lathe. The crawl space is dry as a bone with no insulation, thank god, and no rot at all. There's so many ants around this house that the termites don't get near it.
Other than sanding off the asbestos.
@@ED-es2qv Hopefully they would have tested the paint before sanding it.
That is literally how ALLLLLL the hardflooring looked like in Europe for the last 500 years. It's actually true to heritage and historical style. you always could see the nails. just normal. And it's what makes it beautiful actually.
My house is like that with a mix of standard round nails and the old rectangular blacksmith made nails
Here in New Zealand we have older homes with native hardwood floors. They are all done that way. A family member also has a home built in the 1880's, one of the first of four homes in their area. The floors are nailed like this too.
The floors probably had a marble or granite like finish atop them, before they were stripped like many of the buildings from those times.
@@toryburke137nah the floors at my grandma’s are all like that. The granite, concrete or stone is at the base and then it’s all covered by beams with nailed slabs of wood atop. I would consider it more like the parquet of the middle-lower class in the EU.
It’s not hard wood
Looks 100x better than paint !
I agree!
Always has been..
Who paints a floor lol
@@dylanmounsey7515 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲
@@dylanmounsey7515People with concrete floors.
This is what became the standard way of redoing floors in houses in England - late Victorian and Edwardian houses and flats. It always looks really nice.
I did this to some rooms in my home in New England - a Cape Style house from circa 1940.
It looks nice and is remarkably cost efficient.
That floor turned out spectacular!! That's what I want when I say "hardwood floors"...wide planks, knots and nails 😉😍
Here in the UK almost every floor you sand are old shitty softwood floor boards. Because the houses are smaller and much older the floor has usually been cut up, bits replaced, bits missing, sagging in the middle. It takes a lot longer to finish, and the finish isn't pristine- but it's packed with character and a story. Almost every middle class home has sanded floor boards like this.
Are you guys electrical wiring on the outside of your walls light switch wiring and outlet wiring
@@Mike-su8si depends, you only really see that in commercial (like schools, hospitals and offices) as you can access to upgrade/fix/test easier and the finish isn't as important. You don't often see that in domestic unless it's a pretty shit electrician or it's been done on the cheap.
As the floors are usually as shown in this video we tend to run most of the cable through the floor and drop down to the sockets or switches. Because you can pull up individual boards to access the ceiling void. The drop down is almost always chased out of the wall if it's masonry, and then filled back in, or left loose behind a stud wall.
The Part P of our building regs covers domestic electrical and all cables chased into walls or not in view have to follow 'zones', basically you're allowed to run cable directly horizontal or vertical from the socket or other fixture. That way other trades know where the danger zones are for cables. Very rare to see nail plates here in the UK like I've seen you boys usually use - guess that's because the bulk of domestic electrics are in masonry. Also because all installations are RCD (think you call if GFCI) protected individually at the comsumer unit (fuse board)- so if you nail it it won't work.
Stop saying americans have paper houses, those are just the shitty suburbs. All your homes are trash like you described.
@@Mike-su8sithough, their plumbing definitely is-they think us Americans are nuts for putting the plumbing on the inside!😅
@@TomTom-em2qy yes right.
In old houses the standard construction lumber was old growth which has a tight fine grain so even subfloors are beautiful. If you are sanding off floor paint you will start out with an aggressive 60 grit paper which can sand the nailheads off the softer topnails so reinspect every nail before you varnish so you can pull out the headless nails or countersink them with a nail set punch. Douglas Fir ages to a beautiful warm reddish brown in about two years with just clear oil based polyurethane.
Could you pein the nails and reuse them if the heads are sanded?
60 grit isn't aggressive lol you should use 36 grit on a floor like that
Just be careful, sometimes the finishing they used back then had lead. The EPA restricts sanding painted surfaces older than 1978, and remember it doesn't have to necessarily be paint to have the same effect
I just did this in my 1890s building subfloor. Needed to use 24 grit to get the paint off. Then 36 - 60 - 100 - 120. Finished with ZAR OMU poly and came out amazing.
We have old hormbeam joists. yellow pine flooring and old white oak flooring i sanded one portion of the oak to see how it would look if it was all sanded it would look good but a portion of the floor had been repaired sometime in the past so that portion doesn't match the rest of the hard wood flooring we sometime plan on redo the whole floor
It needs about 10 to 20 new floor joists put in under all this old white oak
I have these same subfloors. I sanded and refinished them beautifully. Just me and the family. Lasted over 15 years.
This is what I have in my house!! And I've decided now that I am going to re-finish it! My father spoke on not doing it because it's subfloor, but it looks so nice (and I can't afford hardwood) so I'll be doing this!
Wonderful! My mom had similar concerns -- until it was finished and she saw it gleam! To her credit, she still helped me do it even though she didn't believe it was going to work! I have a small 1920s bungalow, and the wood floors are one of the few original features left after some "remuddles" over the years, so it meant a lot to me to be able to preserve them and restore them! I used shellac to finish mine, and it's WONDERFUL despite what many modern woodworkers may say about it. I highly recommend looking into shellac if you want something more eco-friendly and healthy (the fumes disappear quicker and don't continue to offgas over time like polyurethane does, which appealed to me). It can also be repaired or spot-treated more easily. Going on 5 years of shellac floors now, and I love it so much I recently did the same in my kitchen and dining room. Best wishes for success on your project! I don't think you'll regret it!
Good decision I think😊!
We do do it all the time in Australia. And it's not called sub-flooring it's our normal flooring in a lot of the older houses. And it looks great😊
That must explain it. I was watching this trying to figure out what the issue was 😅 this is really common in Australia
@@merciair Normal in the UK too.
That's the problem with Americans trying to reinvent the english langauge.
sub flooring just means they put a finished floor over this. you might want to grab a dictionary to accompany your hubris@@6panel300
My house is over 100 years old and was a small shop. The original flooring was adze-trimmed 8 inch tree trunks and narrow planks. We replaced some of the tree trunks, a put plywood over the original floor because they were shrunken and warped, and sheet vinyl flooring over that.
It can get to -20°F here, and drafty doesn't work.
I love the look. The contrast is amazing and the nails make it even more unique
I love the look of the finish on the floor. But I'm an old country boy. I used to play in the dirt too.😂😂😂😂
I did this last summer. Ripped up the carpet and put oil poly on. Beautiful golden poplar after the fact
That look gives that room character. I love it. Never listen to negative people.
Sealing osb sub flooring has got to be the most smooth brained homeowner thing I’ve ever heard of.
Folks if you can find the time and rent a machine it’s well worth it !!! This makes me so happy to see other par taking in projects like these it’s really neat when you get to the finishing line 😎
I love the look of planks! The nails are a cool touch ❤
I like the nails and I like it when the planks aren’t perfect, 90* angle, snug fitting and immaculate …. I like to see what people often see as imperfections … I grew up in the uk and I love the old houses and cottages there with warped wood floors, lathe and plaster walls, bowed and lumpy…. I’m not nearly so keen on modern ‘clean lines’ and hidden tool marks and fastenings
Meanwhile, if you want to build something new but have it look like it's old like that, it costs at least twice as much...
I agree with you 100%. My house is 52 years old and 2 areas of the floor... going into the dinning room and going down the center of the hall, ending at the bathroom... creek when you walk over it. Drives my husband mad, but I love it and wouldn't change it. I think it adds a touch of lived in home and age and, at night when it's spooky dark and I used to be home alone; I thought of it as my early warning system, lol.
I also enjoy exposed fasteners. It makes it more interesting.
I don't mind a little bit of fun house flooring, but if you're tripping on it and losing you phone between planks, a little plaining is in order, lol
@@DarkandStormyNight01 Tell your husband it's a good thing. He can rest assured knowing that you will like him when he is old & creaky also !
I walk on my subfloor planks daily. I love the look!
Laughs in every house built before 1950.
I have beautiful hardwood floors that were hidden under dank carpet for 40 years. Polished up a treat.
I mean everything can be refinish. You might not like the result but everything can be refinish
This is true
Refinish those two sentences
@@solorollo9756They're the exception. Can't refinish those...
*Polish My Turd* _has entered the chat_
I agree with that.
Haha i like that intro 😂 Spot on ,if ya put something up and ur in the construction field,youll be bombarded with folks telling ya how the "right way " to do it😂😂🤦
Looks great! Hardwood is hardwood. If anything the top nail gives it an antique 1950’s vibe
I looooove flooring with nails in it. It's absolutely stunning.
This is a good idea. I have an 1800's house with this flooring upstairs and it is painted currently. I had not thought of refinishing it.
As long as it's stable enough. A large degree of flex in your floor will make it more difficult to sand. Plus many subfloor materials are soft so they dent and scratch easily
There is lead paint on that floor. Be careful
I pulled carpet up from my bedroom and laid 8" pine, used cut nails (top nailed)
At that age watch out for green paint - made from arsenic.
Its not cheap
It looks great. The contrast left in the grain from going light to dark has that aged look and the sealer brings out the full body of the natural wood..😮👍
I love the rustic, lived-in look.
Wood is organic and has imperfections. Gimme them all! ❤
I restored some old pine planks like that. Installed around 1880. I'm very happy with how it turned out.
I love the look of a rustic floor
Well by definition if there is nothing on top its no longer subfloor and its just now flooring🤔
No
I like the way this guys brain works.
By definition it's still the sub flooring by being the bottom layer as well
@travistydings3150 i believe by definition sub means "below or under" not" bottom" so if its not below anything its no longer sub its just flooring
@@Dracomilleithat's not the definition. He's correct sub-flooring is below the flooring.
Oxford Dictionary says "foundation for a floor." Websters say "base for a finished floor."
So this "was" subflooring and now it's "finished flooring." It is no longer subflooring because there's no floor on top of it.
I did this with the subflooring in my almost 300 year old house and it looks amazing!
The handforged nails in the fat planks look amazing!
They are much thicker than any hardwood floor combined with subflooring these days.
At least 1.5“ thick!
I like the glazed, nailed boards look !! Perfect country home.
We've been talking about doing this for our kitchen floor, you've given me the inspiration to do this
You like what you like.
I like the old school feel. Long as its all safe your good to go.
Looks great. Not all sub floor is this great.
I think the nails are the cherry on top!!. Looks awesome
That actually looks better finished, than a new floor.. Good idea
Refinished OSB floors are wild but they still look better than vinyl sheet, peel & stick or cheap carpet.
Ya, I did a floating kitchen counter in our kitchen that was OSB and poly... yes, a very "hipster" thing to do but I thought it looked great. (wife eventually thought it was a bit much and looked a little "getto" so I painted it. oh well! I think that was more her "basic" friends talking who didn't get it)
I think carpet collects more sand and dirt than hard wood gets dirty i got use to cold hard floors
I was thinking about this. Finished OSB actually sounds kind of nice, looks pretty neat, and also much more ecologically sound.
I actually grew up with painted particle board floors, the paint wore off, and then the floors just shed sawdust for decades. Anything is better than that and I like spending less money.
Right. If you like it, it's ok.
My in-laws live in a historical home from the 1700's. They had the home's original hard wood floors refinished and they looked like this, except they have no nails, they have wood pegs as nails. You can see through some of the gaps to the basement. They look nice though.
To refinish means it was finished already at least once, so of course you can refinish it and make it look great like this post shows. I love the look!
My brother did osb flooring years ago looked pretty cool tbh but I wouldn’t choose it
Stained and refinished and/or painted floors, stair cases, and handrails etc...
It doesn't take much to get a nice finish out of a piece of wood, no mater what kind it is.
We did this to our 1890's home in Woodhaven, NY. Looked great!
Gorgeous work. The woodgrain is fabulous❤
I love it. Nothing like a good ol wood floor you can see yourself in and slide around in your socks, hehe. It's beautiful my man.
My father built a whole dining room and finished the walls with sealed particle board . And it looked absolutely amazing.
We did about 2000 square feet of wide pine that had been painted and was bowed that had been there for over 150 years. 18 full days to grind, sand, and poly. NEVER hide beautiful wood!!
Honestly subflooring that is like that is stunning when finished correctly. It's also incredibly sturdy
Did the same thing in my century home loft.
It was side nailed B.C. Douglas Fir tongue and grove. Looks great! For 20 years now.
Did that in a rental (approved by landlord) where the carpet was NASTY. Sub-floor looked great after sanding and finishing. I got to use a belt sander for the first time, so it was a very satisfying experience.
I love the idea of this type of subfloor as a normal floor and the “top nail” adds character!
Love that old barn floor look, something about the nails showing with rust rings just makes it more awesome
We did this in our 1924 home. Much better than carpet!
Love that finnish on that plywood. It looks fantastic. ❤
The nails give it character and it looks nice.
A buddy of mine did his whole second floor in 1'x2' cut tiles of plywood. Not even G1S, just straight sheeting. Looks fantastic finished.
We did it. It worked for us. Our home is 96 yrs old so our subfloors are thick hard wood.
Been trying for years to get my hubby to rent a sander and sand and refinish our dining room and living room…and they’re not huge..he just won’t do it! That floor is beautiful!
I like the look. The last home I lived in was apparently refinished subfloor because there were nails everywhere but it still looked beautiful. 1910’s house.
Great work, it looks amazing! Keep doing what you're doing man, you're a true craftsman!
I grew up with "finished" osb subfloors. Never hurt me one bit and it made for a lot of fun with socks and pledge. Also great for roller blading in the house
I have refinished subflooring in my bedroom. The boards are incredibly wide and have amazing character.
Just like beautiful fencing! Very appealing!
It looks great. Nice industrial look with the nails.
Okay the OSB one is crazy. Only a mad man would live with that 😂😂😂
A good hard pine tongue and groove floor, sanded,with nail heads looks great when finished.
I had a friend who lived in a sw trailer buy an old sw trailer and butted them together to make a dw trailer.
In the new 1, he redid floor in livingroom using old pallets and it was GORGEOUS!
It had type of discoloration/ browning where nails had been and stain it golden for floor coloring and shellac (? Its been years since did) to seal it.
We did this in our kitchen! Love it! Watch for splinters.
Wow, that thumbnail had me expecting a whole different type of hardwood video 😂
Yes it's refinished and it's beautiful❤ and a big money saver❤
SMART MOVE!!! Looks Fantastic!
I restored a floor that looked almost exactly like that with the brow paint/beeswax coating. It was 150 year old European timber and it came up beautifully.
The house my dad built in the early 80s had wide plank floors like this, I didn't realize that was technically subflooring in old houses. I like the look, although these were stained a nice dark walnut color. It was a really nice house, with a lot of craftsman touches and the look of an old farmhouse, but modern electrical and plumbing, along with being well insulated.
That floor turned out great! People have an expectation of everything being perfect, and that's not realistic. I think the imperfections make things look better.
I did a floor just like that in a older house. I pulled the nails and replaced them with screws that I counter sunk. Then I filled the c'sunk holes with wood filler. When the urethane dried the filled holes turned a different color. It looked amazing.
I think they look wonderful, and have some character. A lot less expensive than putting boards over them. And more hygienic than wall to wall carpeting. You can always put big machine washable rugs down in places to make it more cozy and soft under foot.
I lived in a old farm house and thats exactly how me and the GF's bedroom floor was done and we loved it lol
It turned out beautiful,I love the look for sure.
I luv the finished plywood & OSB flooring.
Some of the subfloors in old houses here are 2” thick, old growth redwood. It’s beautiful.
Very popular in the uk… most houses in the 20s and 30s were built with t&g pine floors, top nailed, and we’ve been sanding & refinishing them for years 👍
Now that yhe winter is over Im about to begin construction on my new house here on my raw land. Im building my own house from scratch using very old building techniques.
Well anyway, my floors will be just sub flooring too except two layers instead of one for added strength.
Ive studying various construction methods over the past four years of so preparing for this moment, one thing Ive learned for sure is yhat there are a LOT of ways to build a structure to dwell in. I mean perhaps hundreds of ways to do it. Not a single one of them is wrong just as long as you understand and adhere to certain engineering principles.
Cool video and lobed the line about just as long as you like the look or something like that.
Very, VERY true!
Honestly the beauty of that aged floor
My 60 year old tongue and groove pine looks great. Stained and sealed about 15 years ago.