Here are two pics of my hand scraped wood floor. The finish is dry enought that I could get on it today. Engineered white oak, glued to concrete slab with Taylor’s goop, rift & qtr sawn, t&g, beveled edges, two wood pegs at each end. Total about 1400 sf. Cost, incl material and labor, a bit more than $14/sf. It was stained with Sherwin Wms “Charcoal” stain (black) with two coats of oil based poly. I hope you can see the hand scraping effects in the closeup pic.
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Tell us again the tools and techniques used to produce the surface.
You say "engineered," right, the flooring type? Engineered to me means multi-ply laminates under a wear surface maybe 1/4" thick. I am not familiar with any of them sold unfinished. What product did you use?
As for the pegged ends, what technique was used there?
Engineered white oak, glued to concrete slab with Taylor's goop, rift & qtr sawn, t&g,
You'd better start explaining it again. I never thought you can specify rift & qtr sawn with engineered wood flooring.
A very different finish than I expected, the texture I mean. Nice looking though, I don't mind having one.
Micro said Engineered to me means multi-ply laminates under a wear surface maybe 1/4" thick.
And that's my idea of engineered wood flooring.
I heard of the story you told about drilling a hold in a basic dimensional lumber to create an instant engineered product for political reason. Your thinking could be right on and could it be the two peg holes were pre-drilled?
The story behind the "engineeded studs" was that a volume home builder had the studs pre-cut to length and bored for wires, then it came from Canada at a lower rate.
For my floor, engineered means its plywood, not solid lumber. The wear layer is about 3/16". This floor will never be refinished in the traditional sense, because sanding would remove the texture.
The tools used for scraping were paint scrapers, the kind with a blade screwed to the end of a metal handle...looks like the old fashioned double edge safety razor your grandpappy used. The blades, which are replaceable, come out of the package with parallel edges, a square shape. Before use the guys would grind the edge to a very noticeably arc, like what I imagine a scrub plane blade would look like but probably with a more pronounced arc. After scraping for a while, maybe 4 sf or so, they would dress up the edge on a grinder.
Took a long time to scrape...about 100 sf/person/day. They would wet the floor with a wet cloth, an area of about 3-4 boards wide by 1-2 feet long, and then scrape with the grain. At the ends of the boards they would take one or two passes across the grain to accentuate the joints a little, but not much. The tear out was random, and would vary from board to board.
The square plugs were installed at the factory, someplace in Ohio. They too were scraped, with various success. Being end grain, the didn't scrape as well, so most stand proud about 1/16". Some plugs did get pulled loose during scraping, and they had to be replaced.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. T. Roosevelt
Sweet.
I really like the effect. Very nice.
Very, very nice.
I think I recall...was it Greg? Can't think of his last name. Used to post some great flooring pics, I think he was out in CA. Greg Warren?
I think it was him who posted pics of a distressed flooring job he did. I think, though, that it was roughed out using a planer with blades that had been ground round so they'd cut similar to your job. Not the same, but similar.
Anyhow...I'm smiling at your nice work. Bravo. I like the color, too.
FWIW here is a 'before' picture from roughly the same place. There's been a few changes...
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. T. Roosevelt