How to Make 2x4 End Grain Floors 

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Alex: It's a shop! You don't have to be extravagant! Also Alex: We divided the tiles by color. (Kidding! This is awesome!!)

What a great idea!

Looks beautiful.

dude, thats awesome. that floor looks great

Perfect job and well done! Adrian!

Awesome! Gonna try this in a new addition.

Good idea

Excellent video. Very good information and details. The floor looks awesome. You and your wife make an awesome team.

You guys did a great job! That is such an awesome idea! Thank you for sharing brother, God bless you guys!

Anyhow. Thank you both for the video. Very appreciated. Definitely not many out there for block wood floors.

Beautiful

Wow that is the coolest floor I have ever seen! Way better than laminate or tile! Nice job guys

🤔 interesting idea. Way cool result! 😎

This is a fantastic idea for me! I've been wracking my brain on how I could some wood flooring on the cheap and this is the ticket I've been looking for!

Inspiring video.❤👊

Love this look! I need to figure out a project I can use it on.

Great project! The floor looks great.

I made endgrain wood flooring for my kids bedrooms. Ton of work but i love the look

Thanks!

Looks great, do you think cutting full length 2x4 in half and putting it down like boards would work??

Want to do this in our home. This was the perfect video explaining how. Love how it turned out. It looks awesome! I also subscribed to see other projects! :)

Would look good in any room

Great idea!! It looks wonderful 👏

That looks fantastic. I’m designing my own shed/workshop and your video has given me some ideas for the floor. I work in a wood yard so access to timber for me is no issue. Thanks from the U.K.

I'm looking for an Emily now. She's cute and the floor looks fantastic. I'm thinking it would work as a backsplash too.

Excellent...well done! I want to do about 750 ft2 in end-grain oak over 3/4" subfloor. I imagine I'll lay down some underlayment first. Also, maybe pour the poly on and spread it with a squeegee? Thoughts and advice are welcome.

Well. We just bought our 2x4s , stain , glue and polyurethane. Wish us luck! It'll take a while . we have to rip out our kitchen. (Live out of boxes in there for a bit with the sink held up by some wood lol) lay some osb (oh which BTW is 33$ ... THIRTY THREE DOLLARS.. a sheet at our local lowes atm. SMFH. Got to have it. We are falling through the floor. Fine for adults..dangerous for our littles.

I did this in my kitchen 6 years ago. I moved out 2 years after I did it and it still looked great. The new owners of the apartment who are friends of mine said they get compliments on the floor all the time and that the floor is holding up well. I'm not gonna lie. It took longer than doing other types of flooring but it was more budget friendly and very satisfying.

Did a hole restaurant in end grain flooring with cork grout turned out awesome

What about the small spaces in the corners of each piece? Did you fill that with the poly?

Anyone considering this, I recommend a few changes. First, if you have a joiner and planer, get the boards to a more exact dimension so that you don't. have so many gaps. It will make a big difference. Those gaps between pieces are going to allow moisture down in between the wood, which is a recipe for problems, and eliminating the gaps will make it look professional. Also, don't use pressure treated pine. Also, don't use pine lol. It's very soft and susceptible to moisture issues, ESPECIALLY on the end grain. If it's only a few boards, get a hardwood from a lumber yard. This is a bathroom, so moisture is going to happen. I would make sure you did everything you can to eliminate moisture coming up from the slab in the form of a moisture/vapor barrier, which probably still won't totally eliminate the problem, then seal the top REALLY well.

would the floor be too cold flooring a living room with a concreate underneath ? how thick the cuts should be to reduce the cold going thro ? or probably won't stop the cold anyway .. we live in a part of the world with cold winters lol Thanks for you video !

This would go really, really well with what we want to do in the kitchen. We have a laundry/mudroom right off of it, to the back door, and this idea would look great combined with the different stain colors I want to do with the diamond-shape wood floor idea (and adding in some torched wood with that, too - another idea I just found) I also just found on here. It would complement that SO well! I could even cut and fit some of that flooring to match this, and do the torched wood look, too! Thanks for saving me a bundle AND making sure it's gonna be an amazing, one-of-a-kind floor!

Is this feasible to applicate in a 16' × 80' mobile home?

i wanted to do something similar with fence pickets and maybe epoxy but my dad shut that down saying that wood is too soft?

How is the floor holding up after 3 years? Would you do anything differently?

Great job, using a floor sander and sheep skin applicator would have saved soooo much time , however your end result was fab!!

This looks awesome! I have seen this a number of times over the years. I am moving soon and remodeling the location which I will be living. I intend on putting this type of flooring in with antique lumber I have from my circa 1863 house that was left in the garage from original construction. QUESTION: What is the benefit of brushing the poly on rather than pouring and squeegeeing in on? ...was the poly placed on the floor in (I believe you stated 4 coats) in order to fill in as a replacement for the grouting between wood tiles as well as to get the proper coverage thickness of said poly? Again, looks great!

looks great, but I'd never put a wood floor in a bathroom or kitchen. Tile for the win!

Would definitely use a trowel for the urethane

Nice job! Thanks for sharing. What grit sandpaper did you use and or recommend?

Thanks for the video, the floor looks great! I've been toying with this idea for when we redo the floors in our bedroom. Just a few questions for you or anyone else who reads this: Any tips for installing this kind of floor in an upper story room with a plywood subfloor? It's not a bathroom so water isn't as much of a concern. Would you use a simple wood glue like Titebond as an adhesive? Some other type of generic construction adhesive? Would you want to put down some type of underlayment in between the subfloor and end grain? I'm thinking like maybe a cork underlayment floating on the subfloor with the 2x4 glued to the cork. Would that be stable and solid? I'm thinking if you ever had to remove the flooring it would be easier to accomplish than if it's glued direct to the subfloor. I love the look and the idea of this type of flooring, just trying to think through all the possible issues. Thanks in advance for any advice.

That looks bananas dude! I’m wondering if epoxy would be a good sealant?

Totally rad dude! A bit extravagant and time consuming for a shop though.

love the video is the floor still holding up and how long ago did you and your wife install the floor👍👍

Awesome floor ! And thanks for sharing. Can you tell me the type and model of your Dewalt miter saw ?

Cool! You guys have a ton of patience. I think I would go with a larger piece of lumber that would give me a bigger footprint. That's just me, though. Im a bit impatient.

What type of wood?

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How have the floors held up? Thinking of doing this in a loft

Is 1/2” good enough or would you change it to thicker? I worry about the wood breaking. Thanks for your video and instructions!!!

This came out great. Do you think it could be done with 4x6's? That way they would be more brick sized and fewer pieces.

I'm thinking bout doing this in my den kitchen and master bedroom but sand with them electric drywall sanders

This may be a dumb question but if you soaked all the pieces in a 5 gallon bucket of poly before you install would that save time and material when you go to brush it on after the sanding?

It’s been 3 years! How is the floor holding up? Any shifting shrinking or swelling going on? Thinking about doing this, thanks!

I love the idea, it looks fantastic, and thank you for the video, I've a few observations (perhaps constructive criticism to be honest): 1: Are you not seriously concerned about water, or even just humidity making it's way into the wood and causing it to swell and buckle? I guess you could mitigate this by varnishing the underside first, letting it dry, then doing the rest of the project as you did it? 2: Are the corner gaps fully filled with varnish? I would imagine it would be a perfect place for water ingress to get to the wood underneath. 3: Did you consider using something like cedar, a large expansion gap all round (filled with cork perhaps) and letting the floor float? Thanks, not trying to be rude (as another poster was), I'm watching this because I find the concept intriguing, and have been considering myself, but it didn't answer any of my concerns about the downsides of the technique.

This is a very old technic. The Romans were using it as well. For sealing, they were using tree pitch.

Did you remove the vanity? It looks like it, though I missed it in the footage.

How is it holding up? Any expansion issues or cupping?

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Would you recommend this in a high traffic area , like a kitchen ?

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Oh boy. I see and end grain backsplash in my future. Why settle for tiles?

How has the floor held up? Any cracks?

How dry should the wood be?

Your first coat should been a sanding sealer . Poly could have been rolled to save time. Nice job though....

How thin can these end cuts be? Asking because I bought a house with concrete floors. Previous owner tiled kitchen and bath and then laid 1/4 " plywood on the rest and tried paper bag flooring. Poor job putting down plywood, poor job paper bagging. Now I need a way to pull up and finish floors on the cheap..I'm old and on SS. The tile is 1/4", so whatever I do has to be 1/4" in order to be level. Any suggestions? Tiling the rest of the house is not in my budget. Unless there is absolutely no other option, I really dislike vinyl planks.

How is it going 3 years now?

Is the floor straight?

Probably be easier to do the poly by just dumping some puddles out of the can and then brushing those out

Killer

Never mind,

What did you do in the Air Force?

Pinterest got me here.

You still have a saw...... Hear, hear. Too easy to forget and lose a digit!

3 times as much

only a handsaw would have been slower, and you even have a tablesaw to do it the quick and easy way. i am shocked.

Just a thought: I think the organizing of the colors was a waste of time. I think if you shook the garbage can a few times and poured them on the floor, you would instantly have a random enough pile to just pick the pieces as they lie. By organizing them you now have to be consciously aware of your selection and then it will be less random than you intended. Again, not a criticism, just an evaluation.

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Watched the whole video... Trying to get an actual look at the finished product and nope... Just a straight shot of you sitting on it talking. Thanks for nuffin

I think you can do it yourself, just watch and learn from Woodglut.