found a couple of more pics on the great room start up...

this is before the flattening process started...

foreground.. 3/8 swale...

center.. 1/4'' offsets... 3 times

the original floor just bridged everything which followed the contours sorta and humped at the offsets...

also the original floor had a sub-base print from the stapler in the finish every 20~24''... no no-mar plate on the stapler and 2 of the mounting screws to the sub-base were proud....

SOOOOO.....  there were a bazillion drag scratches/gouges in the finished floor along w/ 2 dents and a print of the sub-base at every stapling.... talk about distressed flooring...

there as a benefit though.. w/ wide nail spacing and 1'' staples the floor was very easy to get up... quite a few staples never hit the plywood.... or just barely...

all of the 8' sticks of 3/4'' QR pre-finished that didn't match the flooring were only poorly butt jointed and lots of splits/blow outs.turned nails in them and gun nose dents from the 15GA.... but we won't mention the really sad miters...

 

 

 

Beautiful mill work, Stick, is that prefinished, or finished in place? With the dark band ,it gives it a step down effect.

You are bringing back old memories.

thanks Herb...

pre-finished flooring...

hard to tell from the photo but it's about 5° out of square.. come diagonal time it got interesting....

 

what memories would that be Herb???

Edited October 21, 20169 yr by Stick486

They didnt have much to start with, but you made it look spectacular

 

Awesome...can't tell it's off...

 

...and the sticks butting up "square" gives it a nicer look than just plane ole miters...

Nice Stick.  Perfection.