Is it worth saving old wood flooring for material? It's prefinished oak, fairly narrow. I was thinking it could be planed down a bit and glued up sideways to make a thick bench top or something along those lines. I saw Amazon has pneumatic nail removers. It wouldn't be worth trying to remove them all by hand.
(04-21-2022, 10:41 PM)lincmercguy Wrote: [ -> ]Is it worth saving old wood flooring for material? It's prefinished oak, fairly narrow. I was thinking it could be planed down a bit and glued up sideways to make a thick bench top or something along those lines. I saw Amazon has pneumatic nail removers. It wouldn't be worth trying to remove them all by hand.
I use it for small projects all the time.
Depending on the age of the flooring, the finish could contain lead. Just a friendly caution.
It shouldn't, it was laid in the mid to late 80s.
I bought way too much unfinished hard maple flooring(too much was less expensive than the proper amount) since it was a factory buy out and needed over a million feet gone quickly.
I used it for all kinds of projects after ripping off the tongues and grooves and planing the grooves on the bottom level. Left stock a bit over 1/2" thick by 3" wide.
Run over a jointer prepped glue up edges, so could make whatever width I needed.
Only gotcha on used would be nails/staples.
I built some 8' shelves for my shed out of Brazilian cherry
(04-24-2022, 08:39 PM)K. L. McReynolds Wrote: [ -> ]I bought way too much unfinished hard maple flooring(too much was less expensive than the proper amount) since it was a factory buy out and needed over a million feet gone quickly.
I used it for all kinds of projects after ripping off the tongues and grooves and planing the grooves on the bottom level. Left stock a bit over 1/2" thick by 3" wide.
Run over a jointer prepped glue up edges, so could make whatever width I needed.
Only gotcha on used would be nails/staples.
This. Having to sharpen or replace planer knives could make a bargain not a bargain.