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. Feed the smooth direction forward into the wood planer. When you re planing the wide surface of the board inspect the grain on the narrow edge. As with a hand planer it s wise to initially make shallow cuts.

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. Mount hope planing produces unique hand made solid hardwood mhp flooring primarily from native ohio hardwoods. Specializing in hardwood furniture trim carpentry cabinets. I decided to restore it rather than using it with the aged look.

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. How to prepare reclaimed wood. 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. It gives information on the subfloor situation covered in this article and the steps required to level a subfloor.

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. When you re planing the edges inspect the wide face. If your bench happens to give when pushed against brace it in any convenient way. Often this is via a hand operated crank that lifts the planer s housing the higher the housing the shallower the planer will cut.

Set the planer to your desired thickness. I bought some wood off of craigslist. Planing a hardwood surface. On rough lumber you can feel the fibers by running your hand over the board.

If you want background on the entire leveling project i suggest reading the shingle method post first. All surface planers will somehow allow you to adjust how deep the wood will be planed. It is essential too that the bench be absolutely rigid.