I remember the floor in my fathers General Motors plant being end grain wood–(made out of 2x4s) I read with intrest this months mag article about end grain wood floors. does anyone else have more input on this? How hard are they to sand after you install them? It seems they would try and chunk out when a floor sander went over them?
Would it be suicide to try and do a thousand feet of it? using perhaps 4×4 lumber and mixing 2×4 bands with it? would oak, fir, yellow pine be good lumber to use? How hard is it to keep glued to the floor and could i install it tight side by side? what is the best thickness to use??
what is the cost compared to say a oak 3/4 t&g floor.
thanks for any input out there guys…
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I was in a gear factory in Cleveland, and I wondered why the machine shop floor was end grain blocks of wood. I found out that it was standard operating procedure in machine shops; if I recall, I was told it was because the tool bits that might be dropped were less likely to chip and break than if it was concrete or normal hardwood.
That may or may not be true, but that's what I recall. I had assumed that maybe end grain floors were more durable.