David Eisan
06-09-2004, 9:31 PM
Evening All,
Here is how the kitchen stands right now. I have all the hardwood flooring down and I am waiting for the plumber and electrician to do their work so I can hang some cabinets. I and my wonderful helper spent the vast majority of the weekend installing the flooring. The flooring is prefinished (golden oak'ish in colour) 3.25" wide, 3/4" thick red oak. The flooring in the hallway outside the kitchen runs in one direction and in the dining room the other way (at right angle to). So, since I couldn't decide which way to be parallel to I decided to run the flooring at 45 degrees across the room. This added much more work, but I love how it came out.
To start, I laid out some chalk lines starting just inside the two doorways and wanted to floor away from that direction. I jointed two edges of a 2x4 and screwed it to my starting chalk line. Once I had reached the corner, I removed the 2x4 and secured the tongue of the first strip with pre-drilled and countersunk drywall trim screws. I then glued a 1/2"x1/4" hard maple (had on hand) strip into the groove to be a tongue so I could start flooring in the other direction. The first doorway was easy, just slap a board in the tennoning jig on the Unisaw with a 1/4" dado cutter (my lovely assistant did most of this) and lay it down. Once at the other doorway, the board had to be a *perfect* fit, no room for error, 5 cuts nibbling up to my final length and angle for each board were common. I must say I have fallen in love with my Hitachi C10FSH 10" SCMS w/laser onto which I was using a CMT 80 tooth -5º radial arm saw blade. Each cut had to be a perfect finish cut, no room for tearout. Cutting through the finished oak flooring at 45º with *zero* splintering was a dream come true. I had the laser set to indicate waste, so when nibbling off 0.25º of a degree the laser would show what was being removed, made the job sooo much easier.
Starting out in the corner,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/startinghardwood.jpg
Securing the groove and adding a tongue to start flooring in the opposite direction,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/turningaround.jpg
At the end of the first day,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/firstday.jpg
My lovely assistant adding a groove to the end of a 44.5º cut for one doorway piece,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/grooving.jpg
The finished floor,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/done1.jpg
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/done2.jpg
Sorry for the low quality of the photo's, but I could not have hoped for the floor to have turned out any better, I am very pleased, it turned out perfectly.
Thanks,
David.
Every neighbourhood has one, in mine, I'm him.
Here is how the kitchen stands right now. I have all the hardwood flooring down and I am waiting for the plumber and electrician to do their work so I can hang some cabinets. I and my wonderful helper spent the vast majority of the weekend installing the flooring. The flooring is prefinished (golden oak'ish in colour) 3.25" wide, 3/4" thick red oak. The flooring in the hallway outside the kitchen runs in one direction and in the dining room the other way (at right angle to). So, since I couldn't decide which way to be parallel to I decided to run the flooring at 45 degrees across the room. This added much more work, but I love how it came out.
To start, I laid out some chalk lines starting just inside the two doorways and wanted to floor away from that direction. I jointed two edges of a 2x4 and screwed it to my starting chalk line. Once I had reached the corner, I removed the 2x4 and secured the tongue of the first strip with pre-drilled and countersunk drywall trim screws. I then glued a 1/2"x1/4" hard maple (had on hand) strip into the groove to be a tongue so I could start flooring in the other direction. The first doorway was easy, just slap a board in the tennoning jig on the Unisaw with a 1/4" dado cutter (my lovely assistant did most of this) and lay it down. Once at the other doorway, the board had to be a *perfect* fit, no room for error, 5 cuts nibbling up to my final length and angle for each board were common. I must say I have fallen in love with my Hitachi C10FSH 10" SCMS w/laser onto which I was using a CMT 80 tooth -5º radial arm saw blade. Each cut had to be a perfect finish cut, no room for tearout. Cutting through the finished oak flooring at 45º with *zero* splintering was a dream come true. I had the laser set to indicate waste, so when nibbling off 0.25º of a degree the laser would show what was being removed, made the job sooo much easier.
Starting out in the corner,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/startinghardwood.jpg
Securing the groove and adding a tongue to start flooring in the opposite direction,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/turningaround.jpg
At the end of the first day,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/firstday.jpg
My lovely assistant adding a groove to the end of a 44.5º cut for one doorway piece,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/grooving.jpg
The finished floor,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/done1.jpg
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/done2.jpg
Sorry for the low quality of the photo's, but I could not have hoped for the floor to have turned out any better, I am very pleased, it turned out perfectly.
Thanks,
David.
Every neighbourhood has one, in mine, I'm him.