We designed the office floor around two leftover pieces of oriented strand board (osb) from the construction. Sanded up and sealed with clear poly-whey floor finish the material looks amazing. More leftover material from a neighboring job site allowed us to add burnt poplar in between the osb giving us some extra width and more importantly a very unique look.
Each poplar piece is biscuited to the osb section, which is then screwed directly to the sub-floor with some nice looking 2.5″ screws. All materials were prepared at the workshop, making it much easier to cut, sand, drill, countersink and finish.
That floor is amazing. I don’t even think most people would ever conceive of doing it, but it turned out beautiful. Nice work and great pictures too!
Clinton @ The Barter House
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Wow, found your blog through boing boing butI think I like this floor even better. I would never have thought of using OSB as flooring–visible flooring that is. It turned out beautiful.
bravo!
Floor looks great! I think I might do something similar in our basement. How many coats of poly did the OSB require?
We rolled on 3 coats.
saw the floor in your more recent office pix, after the jump from mocoloco. Brilliant idea and it came out looking awesome. Love what you’re doing with the place.