How To Make A Cordwood Floor

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How to make a cordwood floor. Try to get them as close as possible. As long as the limb will fit under the arm either should work. We are gluing the slices directly onto our concrete slab. Work in 2 sections.

Cut slices of wood hardwood or a rot resistant softwood 3 4 to 1 inch. Glue the layout you have chosen. Sand both sides using a belt sander. Glue the slices to the floor.

Begin to layout disks on the floor. Seal the top of the slices so they don t get stained by the grout. You can get step by step instructions from sunny pettis lutz tony over at cordwood construction tags. We re using loctite pl premium construction adhesive.

Prepare floor surface by sweeping and mopping. Our house was built in 1979 and many rooms and hallways still had what appeared to be the original carpeting. A band saw would be helpful to get uniform sizes. Using one of these may save time from sanding to get floor even once installed.