Wow,love it,glad I have seen this because this is perfectly beautiful for our little home,going to do all our floors this way. Thank you for the wonderful explaining, breaking it down into ten steps makes it easier to remember and follow.love your sexy knee pads lol ha. Beautiful floors on a budget and easy to do. Thank you
I did a similar project in my daughters room. I used a dark color. She wanted a shiny glass finish. Her floors have held up nicely for over 5 years. The ones i did in a sitting area/walkway which gets a more wear and got a satin, water-based finish, still look ok, but need another coat of finish. I pre-sanded the edges and pre-stained the boards before installing. Your floors look beautiful. I hope you enjoy your flooring as much as I did. I enjoyed you video. Thanks for sharing. They turned out beautiful!!!
did you know that if you mix a little bit of sawdust (that you've made cutting them floor boards) and a little bit of white wood glue it makes a paste to cover up your nail heads and it turns out (once dry) to match your colour wood. simple. and it's cheaper then buying a putty to cover up the nail holes.
Great tip, Mr. Hodg. One can also mix it in a plastic bag, cut tiny tip off the corner. Apply to large areas with small holes like this project was. You can even fold over then tape the corner down when done. If you tape well it lasts a long time if you also get most the air out the zipper side.
That turned out great. I like your big table saw table. I'm sure that helps so much with ripping the thin plywood. Any reccomendation on ripping with a skill saw and having every rip straight and same size ?
When you use that type filler, remember that it is water soluable. You should apply a little proud to allow for shrikage, then take some tough fabric, like old jeans or canvas, and stretch it over a scrapwood block. Moisten the fabric and rub it over the filler until it is flush. It takes a little practice, and you have to keep the fabric moist, not wet, but you save on sandpaper and the dusty mess that you otherwise have to contend with. Rinse the fabric periodically to keep it from filling up.
Oooooo, now that's a trick I didn't know about! Not only would that method have saved me some sanding, but it would have left a cleaner finished look to the covered nail holes. Thanks for that pro-tip. Very cool.
Make sure to use a wood filler that excepts stain. In a couple of shots, you can really see all the smears of filler in your flooring.. Also, its chamfer, not camfer. Lol Good vid!
And what a party it was! After a few years, though, I decided to sell it ... final walkthrough is here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8HVHTFPMR6k.html
@@metaspencer Kudos! And did the 'bus project" (I'm assuming there was one..) get completed? Wish we were young enuf to do such a thing. Happy traveling.
This looks great. One question I have is about the durability of this thin plywood as a flooring. I am being told by plywood venders that the birch ply will get beat up quickly even with an applied poly sealant. How has this floor held up over time? Do you have any recommendations for achieving the most scratch/dent resistant finish without sacrificing the natural (non plastic) look?
I've put down a lot of floors, and the longest lasting in my opinion is solid hardwood: so maple or oak, for instance. But this is much lighter and thinner, so was ideal in this installation. It's been perfect for years, but we don't even wear shoes on it, so that's not the best test. As for finish, I always multi-coat with poly and it last for years
metaspencer thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Typically, hardwood flooring would be best for durability sake, but because of some unique surface conditions we have, we need a surface with some plasticity that can bend along a waving surface; hence plywood. I’ll definitely be taking your input into consideration 👍
You've gotta do it, man! You'll never be the same again after the experience of having a bus. :) As for me, I found mine on Craig's List, but many are sold at auction and even on eBay ... watch out for rust! :)
Enjoy your video.. if I may ask, what type of plywood did you use? I am deaf and I must have missed that part in your video. I'm in South America now but returning to USA April 4 2019 and will start on my Skoolie project. Look like something I would like to tackle for floor, wall, and ceiling. Thanks!
hello, great question! I used 1/4" birch plywood. What you're looking for if you want a thin floor like this one is 1) a nice looking plywood of some kind, and then 2) thin sheets. Good luck with it! It's cool that you're going to be doing a skoolie project! woohoo!
@@metaspencer Few more question. What router bit did you use to chamfer and why? Was it because of glue on the edge? And what type of nail did you use on the brad nailgun? Thanks!
Then I'd probably go for solid oak flooring -- the best stuff! If you wanna go plywood, get something solid and at least 1/2" ... sounds like a great project
I could see that working out, but my preference was to fill the holes and keep dirt from getting in there and metal showing. But you could definitely do it that way! :)
@@metaspencer the clear coat fills the space. I only mention because my house has a couple rooms with the old school narrow strips non tongue and grove from decades back. That's how they done it back in the day and you don't see it because of the finish and clear coat. Anyway no offense just a suggestion
HAHA, Golden Pecan. Well, I knew it was some kind of nut at least. :) I appreciate your careful viewing! A bit over a year later, and those nutty floors are still doing great
Yeah, my math was way off when I made this video and others have noted it ... it was more like $.50 to $1 a square foot, once you factor in the materials costs (sheets of plywood, nails, glue, poly, etc.). I bet that new floor of yours looks great!
nice floors...but for the same price or less i got 69 boxes of premade laminate flooring 12mm snap n click....way less work and no toxic polyurathane coating...
Turned out Beautiful... but your floor is really thick... that is going to be a lot of weight in that RV... I did that and blew out tires and hurt my axel ... Good luck.
Wow, that sounds tough! My existing floor was about the same thickness, plus the bus had 24 heavy steel seats ... so I dropped some weight with those seats. Thanks for the idea!
@@metaspencer OHHHHH... that sounds right!!! You'd think I would have thought of that... since I had been a school bus driver!!! Your floors turned out Beautiful
@@metaspencer Well, I'm back again to watch your great video... This time with more excitement... I am reflooring my 1982 Class A RV... which is similar like your school bus... How are you liking the plywood floors now? Is there anything you'd change about it. Thank you for your reply.
This is funny... it's been 9 months and NOW I'm getting ready to do the floor on the 1982 Class A RV... I refinished a Vintage 1972 Travel Trailer in this last 9 months... I am so glad I found your video again... This is what I want to do... Thank you again for such a GREAT Video and GREAT Editing too. I love it when someone Narrates over their video and speeds up certain scenes like cutting the boards.
That’s so cool! I’m living in the bus for a spell and yeah, the floors are still great. I don’t wear shoes inside which may help. Good luck with the project
$2 per ft!?!? That cant be right. Its $8 for a 32 sf sheet or .25 cents per foot plus glue and nails. I mean you can buy laminates and even super cheap hardwoods for about $2 per foot.
@@metaspencer Please don't take offense. I've been sanding wood floors for 30 years so I have all of the latest greatest equipment. These DIY videos get recommended to me all the time, but don't worry you're not the worst that I've seen LOL!!!
Oooo, good eye! And there I was trying to keep things random. Well, a few lined-up joints is certainly better than the old prison bus floor. And those CHAMfers sure are nice. :)
Word is pronounced CHAM (which rhymes with Jam) -Fur; not Cam-fur! Just as Fillet is pronounced FILL-IT not Fill-Lay, or to be confused with Filet (as in fish) which is FILL-LAY! Just saying... :)
nice job, i've gotta redo my floor on mine 87 lincoln eldorado 27' motorhome.. it been over two years when bought it - work in progress. check out my video? please
