Planing Wood Floors

Using a wood thickness planer like this one from delta power tools reduces the risk that you might make mistakes when planing boards for various projects.

Planing wood floors.

We offer many species of woods with numerous stain and finish options and special finishes and techniques which include hand scraped hand planed saw cut and thresher s floors. It gives information on the subfloor situation covered in this article and the steps required to level a subfloor. It is essential too that the bench be absolutely rigid. When you re planing the edges inspect the wide face.

Mount hope planing produces unique hand made solid hardwood mhp flooring primarily from native ohio hardwoods. I bought some wood off of craigslist. Planing a hardwood surface. If your bench happens to give when pushed against brace it in any convenient way.

If you want background on the entire leveling project i suggest reading the shingle method post first. Set the planer to your desired thickness. I decided to restore it rather than using it with the aged look. The instructable will describe how i went through the process of getting the wood ready to plane usin.

Feed the smooth direction forward into the wood planer. As with a hand planer it s wise to initially make shallow cuts. Up first in hardwood flooring week is tackling a particularly challenging section of our subfloor that couldn t be leveled using our asphalt shingle subfloor leveling method. The design of a spiral planing bit allows you to plane widths of wood equivalent to the length of the cutting edge on the bit.

It will be smooth in one direction and rough in the other. The delta power tools 22 555 thickness planer has a 15 amp motor that can handle both bigger and smaller jobs its unique knives system lets you quickly swap out the blades for planing hard. If you have a glued up hardwood surface to plane first support it firmly on the bench against one or two strips thinner than itself as shown at a fig. The fellow said it was redwood from a barn.

Often this is via a hand operated crank that lifts the planer s housing the higher the housing the shallower the planer will cut. Specializing in hardwood furniture trim carpentry cabinets. On rough lumber you can feel the fibers by running your hand over the board.