OK, I know I crazy, but I’d like to use wood for my bathroom floor… again. The last time I did it I had gotten some leftover red oak from a high end job. The floor area was 7′ wide by 5′. All of the strips were over 7′ so there wasn’t a butt joint on the floor. the sub floor was put together so that it was a single diaphragm with no moveable joints to cause the floor to open up. Caulked all the seams as I nailed the floor and applied 5 coats of polly. 15 years later the floor still looks fine.
My question is, since I’m going to have new flooring milled, what type of wood would you suggest? I was thinking of fir since I can just buy that at HD. But, since this new floor is only 7′-6″ x 5′ so I could get fairly fancy without breaking the budget. The rest of the house is yellow pine so I want something that will look OK with that.
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Full bath or half bath?
Full bath. And I leave the wet bath matt on the floor.
White oak or antique heart pine VG
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Here's a new one for ya Piff...if you use pine on a floor that might get wet...even a little...and you use cut face nails...don't let them get wet and stay wet ...at all! They will rust and stain the wood pretty badly and slowly work into the wood in those areas : (
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I'd also have to go with the antique heart pine. It just doesn't move much.
One of our bathrooms is on the original 1886 heart pine (poly-ed a decade ago), and water never bothers it - good, because a shower over a claw-footed tub is not very leak-proof!
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