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Smawgunner
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# Posted: 11 Apr 2016 07:48pm
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Repurposed fence slats...cedar.
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Ditchmonkey
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# Posted: 11 Apr 2016 07:54pm
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Looks good. How were they finished?
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Julie2Oregon
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# Posted: 11 Apr 2016 08:28pm
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Wow, neat! Someone near where I'll be is selling the 6-inch wide, 5-foot tall Douglas Fir fence slats for $2 each. Flooring would be a good use! How did you fasten and finish them?
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Julie2Oregon
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# Posted: 11 Apr 2016 08:36pm - Edited by: Julie2Oregon
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This is the Douglas Fir. How do you go about reappropriating fence slats for flooring like you did, if you don't mind my asking? Yours turned out super-well!  This stuff I posted is 7/8 inch thick. Was yours about that?
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Smawgunner
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# Posted: 11 Apr 2016 08:53pm
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Thanks guys. A friend of mine had the wood...he got 3 van loads from a warehouse that was tearing down the fence. It's heavy duty, 7.5 inches wide by 2 inches thick. He ran each one through a band saw to make two planks out of each slat. The subfloor is OSB board so I liquid nailed it down and shot finishing nails into it. I'd like to go back and drive cut nails in for looks. It's finished with Polyacrylic. I think it came out great! It has that old feel to it...it's wavy from the band saw so it's uneven in places. I took a palm sander to smooth out the transitions.
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Just
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# Posted: 11 Apr 2016 09:08pm
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Cut nails may rust and stain the wood in a unheated cabin, mine did...
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 11 Apr 2016 09:21pm
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Quoting: Just Cut nails may rust and stain the wood in a unheated cabin, mine did...
I think that would be perfect. Talk about old looking. Love the patina. 
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Julie2Oregon
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# Posted: 11 Apr 2016 09:23pm
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That's amazing that liquid nails and some finishing nails would do it! Yay! Thanks!
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Smawgunner
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# Posted: 11 Apr 2016 09:34pm
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Julie, I am a bit worried about it coming up but I used heavy gauge nails. Time will tell though. I'll keep you posted!
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Julie2Oregon
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# Posted: 11 Apr 2016 09:44pm
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Cool, please do! Well, we put down parquet over OSB in my current home (after ripping up wall-to-wall and padding--gah, what a chore!) with just copious amounts of wood glue and it's been fine, 9 years on.
Mind you, the parquet isn't nearly as thick as these boards but I thought the thinness might actually work against it since we go from crazy-long periods of dryness to record levels of rainfall and damp. My wood door/frame would swell and recede. But the floor has been good.
I'm thinking the thickness and weight of these fence boards would help them stay put?
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bldginsp
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# Posted: 11 Apr 2016 10:30pm
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As I recall you said that when you bought the land you figured the house was a tear down, then you decided otherwise.
That old beat up log building is turning into a showcase home. Congrats!
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Smawgunner
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# Posted: 12 Apr 2016 11:10am
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^ Thanks! It's been just a little over 3 years and things are really coming together. I'm glad we decided to keep and rehab it rather than it sitting and rotting away. I've certainly learned a lot on this "project"!
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bldginsp
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# Posted: 14 Apr 2016 02:10pm
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Once you finish the project, you'll know everything you need to know to do it, but it will be done and you no longer need the knowledge. When you start, which is when you need the knowledge, you don't have it.
It's called 'construction'.
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Cowracer
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# Posted: 18 Apr 2016 04:30pm
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exceedingly cool floor, SmawGunner!
I am green with envy.
Tim
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