Trees To Make Hardwood Floors

In addition we have a couple of trees that will need to come down in the not too distant future.

Trees to make hardwood floors.

After building the sawmill i decided to make some ash flooring for my house. There are three common hardwood trees in northeast montana they are the ash the siberian elm and the russian olive. How to make a wood floor from raw wood. I have about 2000 square feet to do.

Russian olive wood is probably the most distinctive being almost chocolate colored it is a very beautiful wood. There are a few trees here and there that have fallen due to storms age etc. I decided to use ash for the floor because it s lighter color. Species include some oak varieties hickory cherry walnut poplar and a number of others.

Would it be possible to have someone make wood flooring from some of these trees. Cordwood construction cordwood construction is a technique dating back many years where the builders use fallen trees or logs cut from logged trees. Most saw mills. More than half of hardwood harvested domestically is oak that grows from new england to the midwest.

Part of the improvements to our family room included replacing the carpet with hardwood floors. Send them through the gang saw and have them ripped a full half inch wider than the size flooring you want. This needs to be cut to 1 1 8 inch thick. This room was only 250 sq ft.

A perfect project for this idea is to make a hardwood floor with wood from locally grown trees.