Your great gramps would feel right at home in that case.
Do wood flooring companies make garden timbers.
Despite your idea that planing and the other methods you describe do not generate as much dust as sanding using a table saw bandsaw etc your tiny apartment is going to be filled with wood dust and your wife will be in the emergency room.
However the primary difference is that landscape timbers are flat on the bottom and top.
Each of these uses requires two means of support.
Landscaping timbers can be used for creating borders or edging around your garden or yard.
Like many other home materials landscape timbers come in a variety of colors and materials.
Wood floors may not always be the best option like for these homeowners who wanted they look of wood but the durability of concrete.
They can be painted or stained and are pressure treated to withstand termites fungi and rot treated wood is typically still wet when it s delivered to the home depot or job site.
These wood landscape timbers add a natural yet practical accent to any yard or garden.
Then he stained the floor and ran a graining tool over it.
Wood doesn t bend or dip to conform to ground contours.
They make excellent and safe retainer walls borders and planters.
Not the smallest consideration is your wife s asthma.
The first is a way to hold the individual timbers together and the second is a means to secure it to the ground.
When it comes to furniture or flooring or anything else related to wood suitable for fine woodworking there s no such thing as cured or seasoned.
9 is definitely too much moisture to be used inside a modern home as flooring or anything else unless you re going for the rustic look and want wide gaps between the planks in the winter.
Gardeners use landscape timbers for many different projects.
They are similar to wood planks in that many of them come in 4 foot or 8 foot lengths.
Your other option is to air dry the lumber this option will take a long time before you can use the flooring.
Some saw mills can do this for you or you can find a local trim supplier that may have a kilm.
To turn corners with wood edging you must fit the timbers together at an angle much like with baseboard trim inside your house.
Some common uses for timbers include flowerbeds borders and retaining walls.
To make a 90 degree turn you can simply butt the square ends of timbers together but any other angle requires a miter cut.
Recently kate from centsational girl was kind enough to link to us on one of her weekly round ups of interesting design stories thanks kate.
Prepare the wood to go to the kilm to be dried to a moisture content of 8 percent.
Mitch wood is wood.
It certainly was a great selection of articles and in fact the first one featuring a remodeled kitchen with an island unit made from reclaimed floorboards inspired me to think about different ways to use old hardwood flooring on new projects.
Yes you could use wood milled for use as a floor.
Yes this is crazy.