Faux Plank Floor Using One Sheet Of Thin Plywood

To hide the plywood grain mix dilute floor leveling compound and spread it over the whole floor using a 6 inch drywall knife.

Faux plank floor using one sheet of thin plywood.

Which meant we needed about 25 sheets of plywood. We needed to install about 800 square feet of flooring up in the studio space with the attached bedroom and balcony. While we love our hardwood floors we know that not every diyer has the budget and if we re keeping it real not every project is worth the splurge for higher end flooring we ve talked about and heard from our readers over on facebook about plywood plank flooring too. Plank flooring can bring a lot of charm into a room but the cost can be prohibitive.

An inexpensive alternative to real plank flooring is to fake it with a faux wood paint technique on a plywood. Lay down 4 mil poly on the floor then either build the floor with 2x4s and then 3 4 ply for finished look or use ceiling strapping it s 3 4 thick lay it flat and drill in to concrete to secure making sure concrete screws are below wood surface. Plywood sheets are 4 8 which is 32 square feet. Mickey burkeen 9 jul 2019 reply we have an ugly wall that i would love to cover but it will be taken out in a few years.

At less than 18 per sheet my price per square foot came in at about 50 cents which is complete insanity. Our plywood pretty week is coming to a close and there s one topic we haven t covered yet. She did one wall of a tiny room 3 sheets of plywood at bucks a piece she rounded to 30 from 33 as she admitted and she got the paint for free. Using a beautiful wood grain 4x8 plywood tongue and groove sheets for my floor but would like to make it look like its in plank form without having to cut wood.

If you want it on concrete floors build a sub floor fist. Although you want the finished floor to resemble wood grain leaving the plywood grain exposed will belie the painted effect you create because the grain of some sheets runs perpendicular to the the painted grain.