Trees To Make Hardwood Floors

I decided to use ash for the floor because it s lighter color.

Trees to make hardwood floors.

In addition we have a couple of trees that will need to come down in the not too distant future. A perfect project for this idea is to make a hardwood floor with wood from locally grown trees. This room was only 250 sq ft. There are a few trees here and there that have fallen due to storms age etc.

Also imports quite a bit of exotic hardwood like mahogany rosewood teak and wenge which typically grow in more tropical regions like brazil and indonesia. Most saw mills. After building the sawmill i decided to make some ash flooring for my house. There are three common hardwood trees in northeast montana they are the ash the siberian elm and the russian olive.

Species include some oak varieties hickory cherry walnut poplar and a number of others. More than half of hardwood harvested domestically is oak that grows from new england to the midwest. Part of the improvements to our family room included replacing the carpet with hardwood floors. This needs to be cut to 1 1 8 inch thick.

Would it be possible to have someone make wood flooring from some of these trees. Send them through the gang saw and have them ripped a full half inch wider than the size flooring you want. In this particular project wood logs are sliced 1 thick and are being positioned to create the most beautiful natural hardwood floor i ve ever seen. Russian olive wood is probably the most distinctive being almost chocolate colored it is a very beautiful wood.

I have about 2000 square feet to do.