Plank flooring can bring a lot of charm into a room but the cost can be prohibitive.
Faux plank floor using one sheet of thin plywood.
Plywood sheets are 4 8 which is 32 square feet.
To hide the plywood grain mix dilute floor leveling compound and spread it over the whole floor using a 6 inch drywall knife.
Which meant we needed about 25 sheets of plywood.
Using a beautiful wood grain 4x8 plywood tongue and groove sheets for my floor but would like to make it look like its in plank form without having to cut wood.
Typically you can rent a sander and sand the floor before drawing all these lines however i am far too broke to even rent a sander then buy the paper.
She did one wall of a tiny room 3 sheets of plywood at bucks a piece she rounded to 30 from 33 as she admitted and she got the paint for free.
We needed to install about 800 square feet of flooring up in the studio space with the attached bedroom and balcony.
If you want it on concrete floors build a sub floor fist.
Mickey burkeen 9 jul 2019 reply we have an ugly wall that i would love to cover but it will be taken out in a few years.
Since plywood comes in standard 4 x 8 feet sheets we were able to get eight 6 inch by 8 foot strips of plywood to use as our planks the eighth strip was about 5 1 2 inches wide because you loose some width due to the size of the blade when cutting some of the cut edges may be a little rough and need a little sanding.
An inexpensive alternative to real plank flooring is to fake it with a faux wood paint technique on a plywood.
While we love our hardwood floors we know that not every diyer has the budget and if we re keeping it real not every project is worth the splurge for higher end flooring we ve talked about and heard from our readers over on facebook about plywood plank flooring too.
Our plywood pretty week is coming to a close and there s one topic we haven t covered yet.
At less than 18 per sheet my price per square foot came in at about 50 cents which is complete insanity.