Have you ever seen a plywood floor?

[highup]

This one had carpet on it and new carpet is going to be installed again. The house will be for sale. The owners had it for 10 years and they knew this floor existed. They just didn't want to put the money into doing the repairs and having that refinished. I've never seen anything like this but it looks really cool. it'll be meant to see it refinished and brought back to his former glory. Some professional put a lot of time into this. I'm guessing the house is late 40s to early 50s
I don't know how thick the plywood is and it wasn't face nailed for obvious reasons. I'm guessing it was glued then hand nailed from the side of each piece at an angle?
Possibly pre-drilled and then nailed before installing the next piece. There's a lot of powdery pad residue stuck to the floor that's why the pictures don't look so Swift.

 

[Mark Brown]

That is a whole lot of fiddling around but thats rather nifty

 

[highup]

It's 7 ply, 1-inch plywood. It was very well installed.

 

[DarisMulkin]

Are you sure that there isn't a layer of resilient on top.,? Looks like to much detail into a piece of wood to me.

 

[highup]

When I first peeled back the pad and looked at it I thought it was vinyl flooring. Once most of the carpet and pad was removed, you can see exactly what it was. Strips of plywood, nailed very tightly together. I can't imagine how my saw blades it took to cut 500 miles of plywood into 1-in strips. The room is slightly under 14x25.

 

[highup]

It might have been less than 500 Miles I'll have to do some math.
Without taking into account the 8-ft face of an angled fireplace hearth, I come up with 4,207 ft of saw cuts in length. That doesn't account for all that sections that run perpendicular and make up the pattern. I'm still looking rounded up to an even mile.
How many miles do you get out of a saw blade?

 

[Mark Brown]

Depends on the circumference

 

[highup]

Depends on the circumference

We don't want to get into no stinkin' circumference. Pi day was a couple weeks ago...... and I'm going to cover it up with carpets so nobody will ever know.

 

[Dan]

My name is Dan and I have a life long addiction to wood. I LIKE it.

 

[zannej]

That is very cool looking!

 

[highup]

My name is Dan and I have a life long addiction to wood. I LIKE it.

If the exterior of the house had a more pleasing architectural design it would be worth restoring this floor. Everything in the house has painted baseboards and the kitchen looks to have been remodeled within the last 10 years with formica countertops. If this was restored to its former glory you would have to reach him all the doors and the baseboards and the rest of the house to a stain wood that complemented this floor. Otherwise this wood floor would kind of stand out of place to the rest of the house and it's not a big place just two bedrooms one bath.
Still it's pretty neat.

 

[DarisMulkin]

I'm curious. How would you be a ble to refinish that floor? If you sanded it I think the pattern would sand out.

 

[Mark Brown]

How could the pattern sand out? It is "edge grain" plywood. You could sand until it was all gone.
For the record, I know it is not a grain but what else we gonna call it

 

[highup]

After the padding is out, this is more of what the floor looks like. It has three of these block patterns in it. The two end patterns are the same and the one in the middle is different.

 

[Dan]

How could the pattern sand out? It is "edge grain" plywood. You could sand until it was all gone.
For the record, I know it is not a grain but what else we gonna call it

The grain is much deeper than the annual growth rings.

 

[highup]

Dan I don't think I described it well enough when I first put the photos up there. I just left the job and I've got most of the padding put down in that room but I'll check to see how deep or how thick that plywood is. I'm going to throw a few magnets on the floor too I'm curious if I can figure out what they did for fastening it. I sent the images to another flooring contractor this retired and he said it's probably nailed and glued. It's on a suspended plywood floor meaning there's a basement underneath it.

 

[Mark Brown]

The grain is much deeper than the annual growth rings.

I am confused dan, its plywood. Please to be explaining how one would sand the pattern out. Perhaps i am missing something here... it wouldnt be the first time

 

[highup]

You send the pattern out when you hit the plywood floor underneath the one you're looking at.

 

[DarisMulkin]

I did not realize that was edge of ply pieces, until it was stated and went back and looked the pictures again. Somebody had a lot of patience to do that.