What I did on my holidays

[Radd Cruisers]

Well, got some time off and will be installing some beautiful Vancouver Island Fir flooring. Starting with the nosings on the stairs, me and my daughter cut off the tongues then cut off about two inches of the boards, book matched and glued.

We routered the nose and they are ready for installation.

STinky carpet pulled up and now prepping the stair treads, lifting them removing the lip then LP300 glueing and screwing these bad boys down. Should make for a good substrait.

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Little peek of some of the flooring in the house already.

 

[Koffer]

looks good

I can see the hair tumbleweeds just slowly going by with that longhaired cat

(dont ask me how I know )

 

[Arya Ebrahimi]

Koffer, that cat has a strange resemblence to your avatar

 

[yotawheeler]

yikes....can be beautiful stuff but i find it to be a royal PITA to work with...too friggen soft. looks good tho

 

[Cookiemonster]

Evil flooring..........................Looks good though. Nice Bessy's but in comment to your saw, it looks like it's time to whip out the Naval Jelly & steel wool & hit the miter slot. Appears to be a little rusty.

Very nice floor though.

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Evil flooring..........................Looks good though. Nice Bessy's but in comment to your saw, it looks like it's time to whip out the Naval Jelly & steel wool & hit the miter slot. Appears to be a little rusty.

Very nice floor though.

I did cooki, it was polished and waxed not too long ago.

The bessys were purchased many moons ago, thought I payed to much but they are worth it.


Guess how the rust got thier, power washing a frame of restoration back in the old days on a FJ40 from New York......

 

[Radd Cruisers]

yikes....can be beautiful stuff but i find it to be a royal PITA to work with...too friggen soft. looks good tho

Ya, you would know very well.

YOur workmanship with wood makes me look just plain bad.

Hey kid, it does get hard over fiffty years, ya ever tried driving a nail threw some old stuff?

Rob

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Ooooooh my pride and joy is a Delta Uni saw I purchase almost twenty years ago, got the unsaw fense also.

 

[KLF]

A word of caution...

I'm standing up as I type this. The reason I'm standing is because I have the same fir flooring in my new "office" loft area, and I found that the casters on my nice comfy rolling desk chair made grooves in the soft floor as I rolled around in it while seated. No sitting in the chair until I get an area rug up here!

All my floors on the first floor are 3/4" solid maple. Gorgeous stuff. I wish they had put it up here too...

 

[likewelders]

All hard wood oak at my house. Stuff is tough. That looks a little soft. Maybe a sealer/stain will make it tougher? I put a honey stain on the oak here. A pain to get smooth too.

 

[Radd Cruisers]

It gets harder with age, fir is considered the hard wood of soft woods.

Ya there are some down sides and I also ruined a section with a office chair, then purchased a chair mat which works great.

First growth stuff is wicked hard while this second, third and fourth growth is pretty soft stuff.

 

[Gold Boy]

looks great!

doug fir is a beautiful wood, its reds and yellows are real easy on the eye.

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Thanks Gold boy.




Some new Bessy clamps, had the last set for over ten years.

 

[Radd Cruisers]

I had to pull up each stair tread and take the front lip off, glue and screw down for no squeaky.

New paint on the walls, up the hall and down.

Tiled the face of the stairs.

Thinking about pulling the wall out on the stairway landing and putting a railing in to open it up.

Also in the plans is to pull the planter I built several years ago out of the front hall and open things up.


Small distraction on the net, one heluva sweet FJ55, ok lunch is over back to work.

 

[45Kevin]

Yeah, those k-bodys are the shizzle. I bought 4 about ten years ago and they are still working great. I don't use them so much any more.

Radd: did you get that stuff milled locally? And this is fast grown wood by the look of the grain. It may be eons before it hardens up. But, the marks are one of the characteristics of fir products that people like.

We occassionally get to charge exorbotant prices to "distress" brand new lumber for people that want the "aged" look.

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Yep, supper fast growing steroid wood, locally milled.



Cut up the floor in the family room and poor concrete, troweled and coloured., Damn that was a lot of work.

Using the old wood stove base as a entrance to the shed now.

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Fourth and last coat on the stair treads.

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Once the concrete cured it was way lighter in colour, the groute was absorbed I guess?

Couple shots of the railing I built after cutting a big hole in the wall.

Rob

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Couple of the railing after clear coating and making top cap, the railing will slide up and out of the way if we need to move stuff upstairs or down.