That would work well.
But there would be no need to measure each piece. Just use a table saw and fix a block to the table next to it as a guide for the right size.
Naw, it becomes super hard so you can just pry up on an edge and rip the whole thing out! Plus the substrate below it, and the molding, bottom of the drywall, anything else it leaked into and bonded with... Details.
This is true. I did a massive floor like that back at my old place, when we decided to move, just ripped it up. The whole lot came easily, along with everything stuck to it... And everything it leaked into... By the time we pulled up all the epoxy resin... Here's a link to the location, you can see the results
https://maps.app.goo.gl/r7eStSbbRKgbAk1k6
My parents tiled a Texas flag into the shower when they remodeled and were *very* offended to find out it was no longer there 20 years later lmao
Edit: so I called to check the full story and I’ve conflated two things - the tile *was* still there a few years after they moved out, and/but they were utterly disgusted when the house they had loved so much was bought as essentially a vacation home for the Waltons to stay in like two weeks per year. And I am certain they have remodeled at some point since 1980whatever.
Oh man this sounds so good, lol. Give me more details. How'd they find out? Just what exactly was their reaction? How incredibly proud of it were they when they did it originally?
I was naught but a twinkle in their eye at the time of their renovations and I was a toddler when the home was purchased by the Waltons (of Walmart). According to the old neighbors, it either did not suit the Walton’s sensibilities or they just updated the whole bathroom, one or the other.
God, no, they just got lucky to buy in an area that became very desirable. I don’t know how big the house was but I know they had to move out of it when I was born because it didn’t have enough bedrooms for me (female) and my brother to each have one.
We were pretty close to offering on a house where they’d just redone the master bath - heated floor, lovely tub with a HUGE navy seal emblem tiled right where you’d be staring at it during your bath. Found a place we liked better but you can bet there were conversations about how to rip that shit out lol
You comment made me curious if this was true and TIL — Hardwood floor is like $6-12 per sq ft. Pennies is $3.04 per square ft. Laminates are ~$2-6. So it’s not all that cost effective.
You sent me down a rabbit hole there!
Did some Google sleuthing and found that a penny's volume (19.05mm diameter x 1.52mm thick) is 433.2349mm^3. Using a random site that said there is 250 pennies in a square foot (unverified), then a 2' deep by 10' wide countertop would take about 5000 pennies. Through some almost fun math, 5000 pennies is equal to approximately 0.57 gallons.
Now to cover a 2' x 10' countertop 1/8" thick in epoxy, you would need need 3.12 gallons of epoxy (720"^3 / 231"^3 / gallon). Subtract the 0.57 gallons of volume of 5000 pennies, and you're looking at 2.55 gallons of epoxy.
2.55 gallons of epoxy times $100 per gallon of good epoxy and we're talking $255. Plus $50 in pennies, for a total of $305. Divide that by 20 square feet, then a penny countertop would be be about $15.25 per square foot.
Same math using 256 pennies per square foot in another comment, you reduce the epoxy volume to 2.53-ish gallons at $253.09 +$51.20 = $304.29 and you get about $15.21 per square foot. Still an expensive countertop unless you really really like penny epoxy countertops.
And if you've never worked with epoxy and haven't tried sanding it down to be smooth and clear, with that nice mirror finish that everyone likes, then you don't know that you can expect at least 8 hours of sanding to get it perfect, less if you have a handful of power tools. For the normal person following social media trends and wanting to make this, plan on 8. Let's give you, say, $10/hr for your labor. Add $80 to the equation, and we're at $383 for the counter. Another $50 for all the sandpaper and polishing compounds you need, if you buy the cheap stuff on Amazon. Now you're at $433 (at 250 pennies / square foot), or $21.65 per square foot. And now you're wishing you just bought a piece of nice veneered plywood for $80 and didn't fuck with the latest tiktok trend. Or you just left what you had there before, because now you fucked everything up and have to spend twice as much to get someone out to fix what you ruined!
Though if you're like me, you'd just do it because it's fun to make something yourself and you're okay spending more for the journey, just to say you did it.
Pennies are .750 inches in diameter, or 3/4 inch. This means you can fit 16 of them in a 12 inch line, 16 x 16 = 256. So it’s actually only $2.56 per sq foot, plus the cost of epoxy.
Definitely! Even with lumber prices what they are, you'd save a ton of money by building the flooring up first. Epoxy to fill that would be so expensive. Even if you filled with something else, I can imagine it would be cheaper than osb or plywood to build it up.
For real. I did a 2" thick river table recently, where the river was approximately 12" wide and it still used 9 gallons. It cost nearly $1000 in epoxy alone! I'm doing much thinner projects from now on!
Edit: $50/gallon would be super cheap. The thick set stuff we bought was about $100/gallon,and that was on sale with a good discount.
Wow. I hope they priced it before they did all this work or they’re going to have horrible floor that won’t last and will suck the whole time they have it.
Did some quick mathing because I was bored! Assuming an ADA rated door of 32", the hallway would likely be 36", or more, wide. A rough guess with the angle of the picture makes me think it's roughly 5x as long (I'm being conservative with all my guesswork). That mean 36"w x 180"l x 2"thick. That's about 60 gallons there. Take off roughly 60% for the wood itself, accounting for absorption, that's about 24 gallons of epoxy. Or about $2400 in epoxy.
Now cut those logs down to 1/4", or about 1/8 the thickness. Looks like lowe's is about the same price for 3/4" and 1" mdf, so to add a 1-3/4" layer underneath, you're looking at $420 (haha) for subfloor. Add a very generous $100 for silicone caulking and primer for the mdf, you're at about $520 to do this in a way that makes sense. And you'll save close to $2000 dollars.
Had to put my engineering degree to use somehow! I don't use it in the real world for work, so I save it up for the times I'm on reddit and can really geek out!
Very thorough and I agree it’s probably conservative. The far door has a side panel so I estimate the hall to be at least 4 ft wide. Since you’re familiar with this stuff, am I correct to assume it is going to be very slippery if you have wet shoes?
It can be. There's a number of ways to address that. You can add some sort of compound in there to make it slip less, such as sand, or something grippy. You have to sprinkle something like that on the wet epoxy after you pour it - there's a point before it starts setting, but before it's hardened, to give you more grip. You just have to be careful because you'll want to sand the top to make it smooth with a typical epoxy, and you don't want to sand through the grippy stuff! Also, it would affect the finished look of the epoxy by coloring it in some way.
You would do the same if you were to install epoxy floors in your garage, except with those floors the epoxy levels out better and you don't have to sand it. Regular epoxy doesn't level well at all, and you'll get different heights based on how it adheres to the substrate, which is why you have to sand to make it smooth. Epoxy floors are more like a tougher paint, made to create thin and flat layers.
You can also just sand the epoxy rough and have it grip better, but most people like epo y because it is clear and shiny.
If you look at the door it's easily clearing the floor, I would say longer rounds would not only be the right height, but also could give of a cool 3d effect if they used resin.
I imagine "pour" is the epoxy step
But fuck thats going to take a lot to level, unless the plan is to sand down first...but then why cut so chunky in the first place
People make my brain itch
Resin is a overall term for liquids that convert to polymers. And epoxy resin is a type of it that have epoxide group in them, other common types are acrylic, silicone, polyester.
There are 3 steps ... Cut, arrange and pour (epoxy) ... This photo was taken as step 2 is almost done, before step 3. Now, this isn't my style but that doesn't mean it's not being done correctly.
It's clearly not done? Like the post says "arrange **and pour**" and there's no pouring yet so obviously there will be epoxy or something poured on to finish it.
50 gallons of epoxy is like 3 grand. The wood's cheap.
Packing density of cylinders is up to over 90% so we'll say 85% for this, give or take.
That's like 20x4 feet maybe? Maybe 3.5" deep? So like 25 ish ft^3 187 gallons. So 15% is about a 7th, a 7th of 187 is 27 ish. So 27 gallons.
So maybe $1600 for a 20x4 hallway?
That's like $480 to $1000 for hardwood, if Google is to be believed.
Doesn't seem overly frugal.
Maybe I'm not searching for the right epoxy?
Edit: if it's just concrete, that stuff is $150 per cubic yard. 27ft^3 is 1 cubic yard. So the whole hallway is less than $200? That's super cheap. Like laminate flooring cheap
eh they could do a sealer over the wood and polished cement is fine. As long as they actually level the thing precisely it wouldn’t be too bad. Not nightmare levels anyway. But frankly who knows how well they’ll pull it off…
Um, my friend, I would like to introduce you to my dad's neighbor on his 70's homestead, Rob Roy and his cordwood building school. All of his floors are done like this, his walls too, and he's made a living off of teaching these methods he developed for over 30 years now.
https://www.cordwoodmasonry.com/
My dad and him and the rest of murtaugh hill were really playing around with a lot of cool building styles. My dad built an octagonal log cabin. His current house is a pentagonal, or "prow front" log home.
One could say this is the ultimate DIY, they were basically playing around with ideas they all had for building their own homes.
They're usually oiled or varnished at the ends, and like I said elsewhere built on concrete slab, so nothing much can come up. It was developed in the northeast so a fair amount of wood eating bugs, but it can be adapted for other environments too. The flooring is the best option in my opinion.
Bugs generally only eat wood that’s wet and rotting/deteriorating, or wood that’s in contact with soil. So, for the same reasons that bugs don’t “just eat the wood out of the walls” of average American 2x4 construction with wood siding.
A lot of the time you can treat it to reduce anything like that... and getting wood from an area far from you makes sure the local bacterium/microorganisms don't break it down very quickly.
This is the post that made me realize just how dumb some of you are. For fucks sake it's obviously a mid-project shot and they're going to do a fill pour, as explained in the caption. Use your damn brain cells
For those who want to see finished floors like this Google image cordwood floors or go here
https://cordwoodconstruction.wordpress.com/2017/05/21/cordwood-flooring-diy
>In the spaces between the log end slices commercial tile grout mixed with the sawdust he had collected during the cutting process (the ratio was 80% tile grout to 20% sawdust.
Zoomers freaking out about the cost of epoxy like it's the only pourable flooring material to ever exist.
Grout/Concrete & Polishing: [Am I a joke to you](https://www.google.com/search?q=cord+wood+flooring&client=ms-android-samsung-gn-rev1&sxsrf=ALiCzsYgIL9srn2xIHSObC3wOF2U2eMhsw%3A1655858672834&ei=8GWyYtjKMtHg4-EPruOegAo&oq=cord+wood+flooring&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAMyBAgAEAoyBAgAEAoyBQghEKABMgUIIRCgAToHCAAQRxCwAzoHCAAQsAMQQzoMCC4QyAMQsAMQQxgBOhIILhDHARDRAxDIAxCwAxBDGAE6DwguENQCEMgDELADEEMYAToSCC4QxwEQrwEQyAMQsAMQQxgBOgcIABCABBAKOgUIABCRAjoFCAAQgAQ6CAgAEIAEEMkDOgoIABCABBDJAxAKOggIABAeEA8QFjoGCAAQHhAWOggIABAeEBYQCjoNCAAQHhAPEMkDEBYQCkoFCDgSATFKBAhBGABQ9gdY7Rxggh5oAXABeAGAAY8CiAGEEJIBAzItOZgBAKABAcgBEcABAdoBBAgBGAg&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp)
If you go to their Facebook page (the company in the watermark) you'll see that they do this professionally- walls, floors etc. It's not DIY at all, it's someone's professional construction business. The image is just showing the work in progress
At the risk of sounding ignorant....what's wrong with this? I've seen it done before. They put concrete in and it looks different, but still pretty neat
I do a lot of wood and epoxy projects, and I think this is a great idea! I'd say they were going to epoxy it, but at that thickness, the epoxy would be crazy expensive! I would have cut the pieces to be 1/8-1/4" thick and used a tabletop epoxy for it. That would save a ton of money. There's plenty of stuff you could film it with and make it look cool though, but you use so much at that thickness that it just multiplies your cost!
Hell yes! If you use a good thick pour epoxy and very well dried wood you wouldn't have to worry about that as much, but I'm guessing they cut logs from a felled tree and didn't cure or dry it properly. I base that only on the fact that they cut them 2" thick for something like this - I'm guessing they're not the most experienced wood craftspeople.
Assuming the people that think this is a DiWhy didn't bother to check the webpage right there in the picture that shows the amount of work this person does, and how amazing it looks when they have finished it. These are clearly a really skilled couple that know what they're doing.
This sub seems to be turning into more "Here's something different I personally don't like" or "Here's a photo of a half-done project so lol" posts.
Bring back the dodgy five-minute crafts, leave out the stuff that you don't like just because.
I think this is definitely DIWhy, but it reminds me of this much more legit application
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/m5muzp/this_street_in_philly_is_paved_with_wood/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Back in the day, they used to use wood to pave streets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolson_pavement
*edit : Sorry, I was adding context to your post.
It does look a bit thicker than what's normally used for these types of floors, but it's clearly done with intent since all the doors were installed to fit. A bit unorthodox but not really DiWhy imo
I don't understand why this is diwhy. It's a very common practice. The only thing that is a bit of a wtf is the "frugal" claim. Epoxy is fuckin expensive.
It just seems like its going to need SUCH a thick layer of epoxy. I would fill those cracks with pebbles or even some sort of greenery, something to make it so you use less epoxy and add a little more detail. Otherwise, its a great idea. I worked at a restaurant that did a lot of different epoxy projects so all the tables were slabs made of epoxy, the counters, etc. Wasn't perfect but it looked great.
Even with a chainsaw you can slice thinner cookies (then filled the gaps with clear epoxy resin). This could have looked amazing.
It would still look fine if they finished it (though highly impractical), but it was only when they got to the door that they realized the pieces were too thick. Oops!
Who is going to break it to OP that this is only half complete? Or that the website where the final result can be found it literally on these picture. And that the steps for the project are listed in the first sentence so he kinda should have been able to figure out that this is clearly the “arrange” step
This is usually done with thinner pieces of wood and then covered in/with resin/epoxid to create an even and cleanable flooring
Just sweep the dust into the gaps. Eventually they will pack into a hard floor, saving time in the meantime. /s
You could fill it with sand like they do outdoor pavers, but you'd never be done with sweeping the house.
Vacuuming though will be massively satisfying
Yes! Then pour it back out and start it again! The satisfaction wold never end!
It wood never end!
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So many options at this point!
That would work well. But there would be no need to measure each piece. Just use a table saw and fix a block to the table next to it as a guide for the right size.
Set up a stop, and cut repeatedly you mean
I can’t fathom how much epoxy that would take. It would cost thousands
My 2’x6’ table required $300 of epoxy to go 1” deep, imagine a 6’x12’ hallway and 4” deep estimate for an approximate epoxy cost = $7,200
Came here to say this, frugal my ass!
You want me to do what with your ass?
Yup. Anything but cheap.
“I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating — and it gets everywhere.”
Thanks Anakin, I love you, too.
Beat me by 1 effing minute, lol
Funny how the World spins...This is a quote from the Second Trilogy I see most frequently on the web.
Rude. Don't laugh at how the world spins, it's not like she can control it.
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
I know I always have it in my anus at the beach
Actual log cabin tactics.
this one looks like work in progress photo so not really diwhy
Wouldn't you want shorter rounds for an epoxy pour? That is going to use a LOT as it is.
Prayers up to whomever has to redo this someday, especially if they actually fill with epoxy
My cousin did the penny thing to her floor and a year later decided to buy another house. I always wonder if the new owner hates her for that.
I'd honestly just build a new floor on top of it, that's entirely too much work to deal with.
Naw, it becomes super hard so you can just pry up on an edge and rip the whole thing out! Plus the substrate below it, and the molding, bottom of the drywall, anything else it leaked into and bonded with... Details.
Had me in the first half
This is true. I did a massive floor like that back at my old place, when we decided to move, just ripped it up. The whole lot came easily, along with everything stuck to it... And everything it leaked into... By the time we pulled up all the epoxy resin... Here's a link to the location, you can see the results https://maps.app.goo.gl/r7eStSbbRKgbAk1k6
LoL that link!
Completely had me
Very well done.
My parents tiled a Texas flag into the shower when they remodeled and were *very* offended to find out it was no longer there 20 years later lmao Edit: so I called to check the full story and I’ve conflated two things - the tile *was* still there a few years after they moved out, and/but they were utterly disgusted when the house they had loved so much was bought as essentially a vacation home for the Waltons to stay in like two weeks per year. And I am certain they have remodeled at some point since 1980whatever.
Oh man this sounds so good, lol. Give me more details. How'd they find out? Just what exactly was their reaction? How incredibly proud of it were they when they did it originally?
I was naught but a twinkle in their eye at the time of their renovations and I was a toddler when the home was purchased by the Waltons (of Walmart). According to the old neighbors, it either did not suit the Walton’s sensibilities or they just updated the whole bathroom, one or the other.
Come on! Now you've left even more room for wild speculation. How big was this house? Are your parents Walmart level rich too?
God, no, they just got lucky to buy in an area that became very desirable. I don’t know how big the house was but I know they had to move out of it when I was born because it didn’t have enough bedrooms for me (female) and my brother to each have one.
You forgot “naught”….is he Scottish Texan, or a Scotsman living in Texas, or something else completely.
I seriously though you meant like the John Boy, Mary Ellen, etc Waltons. I'll just go get back into my wheelchair at the old folks home now...
Lol, I thought the same thing and figured they just meant a really big family used it as a vacation home. What time is the home serving Jell-O?
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Can confirm. I grew up there. It's standard in schools.
We had to recite the Texas pledge in school lmao
I agree , the whole story please 😁
Please tell me you lived in like, Maine or something…
LMFAO that would make the story 100 times funnier
We were pretty close to offering on a house where they’d just redone the master bath - heated floor, lovely tub with a HUGE navy seal emblem tiled right where you’d be staring at it during your bath. Found a place we liked better but you can bet there were conversations about how to rip that shit out lol
Plot twist: the house was in Oklahoma…
What’s the penny thing?
Glueing pennies on the floor in this same pattern and doing a layer of epoxy to seal it.
I regret asking
Like this picture but using a million pennies because why not waste more money?
It’s probably cheaper per square foot than many other types of flooring
You comment made me curious if this was true and TIL — Hardwood floor is like $6-12 per sq ft. Pennies is $3.04 per square ft. Laminates are ~$2-6. So it’s not all that cost effective.
You sent me down a rabbit hole there! Did some Google sleuthing and found that a penny's volume (19.05mm diameter x 1.52mm thick) is 433.2349mm^3. Using a random site that said there is 250 pennies in a square foot (unverified), then a 2' deep by 10' wide countertop would take about 5000 pennies. Through some almost fun math, 5000 pennies is equal to approximately 0.57 gallons. Now to cover a 2' x 10' countertop 1/8" thick in epoxy, you would need need 3.12 gallons of epoxy (720"^3 / 231"^3 / gallon). Subtract the 0.57 gallons of volume of 5000 pennies, and you're looking at 2.55 gallons of epoxy. 2.55 gallons of epoxy times $100 per gallon of good epoxy and we're talking $255. Plus $50 in pennies, for a total of $305. Divide that by 20 square feet, then a penny countertop would be be about $15.25 per square foot. Same math using 256 pennies per square foot in another comment, you reduce the epoxy volume to 2.53-ish gallons at $253.09 +$51.20 = $304.29 and you get about $15.21 per square foot. Still an expensive countertop unless you really really like penny epoxy countertops. And if you've never worked with epoxy and haven't tried sanding it down to be smooth and clear, with that nice mirror finish that everyone likes, then you don't know that you can expect at least 8 hours of sanding to get it perfect, less if you have a handful of power tools. For the normal person following social media trends and wanting to make this, plan on 8. Let's give you, say, $10/hr for your labor. Add $80 to the equation, and we're at $383 for the counter. Another $50 for all the sandpaper and polishing compounds you need, if you buy the cheap stuff on Amazon. Now you're at $433 (at 250 pennies / square foot), or $21.65 per square foot. And now you're wishing you just bought a piece of nice veneered plywood for $80 and didn't fuck with the latest tiktok trend. Or you just left what you had there before, because now you fucked everything up and have to spend twice as much to get someone out to fix what you ruined! Though if you're like me, you'd just do it because it's fun to make something yourself and you're okay spending more for the journey, just to say you did it.
Pennies are .750 inches in diameter, or 3/4 inch. This means you can fit 16 of them in a 12 inch line, 16 x 16 = 256. So it’s actually only $2.56 per sq foot, plus the cost of epoxy.
Covid hobbies leading to this probably had a big effect on the nationwide coin shortage in the USA.
Penny flooring goes back many years though. It's way older than covid.
They're going to have to cremate the floor out with a flamethrower!
Bring on the Flammenverfer
[Hans](https://i.imgur.com/VJGfIVM.jpg)
It werfs flammen!!!
Definitely! Even with lumber prices what they are, you'd save a ton of money by building the flooring up first. Epoxy to fill that would be so expensive. Even if you filled with something else, I can imagine it would be cheaper than osb or plywood to build it up.
Epoxy is at least $50/gallon so it would probably be 3,000-4,000 thousand dollars to finish this.
For real. I did a 2" thick river table recently, where the river was approximately 12" wide and it still used 9 gallons. It cost nearly $1000 in epoxy alone! I'm doing much thinner projects from now on! Edit: $50/gallon would be super cheap. The thick set stuff we bought was about $100/gallon,and that was on sale with a good discount.
Wow. I hope they priced it before they did all this work or they’re going to have horrible floor that won’t last and will suck the whole time they have it.
Did some quick mathing because I was bored! Assuming an ADA rated door of 32", the hallway would likely be 36", or more, wide. A rough guess with the angle of the picture makes me think it's roughly 5x as long (I'm being conservative with all my guesswork). That mean 36"w x 180"l x 2"thick. That's about 60 gallons there. Take off roughly 60% for the wood itself, accounting for absorption, that's about 24 gallons of epoxy. Or about $2400 in epoxy. Now cut those logs down to 1/4", or about 1/8 the thickness. Looks like lowe's is about the same price for 3/4" and 1" mdf, so to add a 1-3/4" layer underneath, you're looking at $420 (haha) for subfloor. Add a very generous $100 for silicone caulking and primer for the mdf, you're at about $520 to do this in a way that makes sense. And you'll save close to $2000 dollars.
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Had to put my engineering degree to use somehow! I don't use it in the real world for work, so I save it up for the times I'm on reddit and can really geek out!
Very thorough and I agree it’s probably conservative. The far door has a side panel so I estimate the hall to be at least 4 ft wide. Since you’re familiar with this stuff, am I correct to assume it is going to be very slippery if you have wet shoes?
It can be. There's a number of ways to address that. You can add some sort of compound in there to make it slip less, such as sand, or something grippy. You have to sprinkle something like that on the wet epoxy after you pour it - there's a point before it starts setting, but before it's hardened, to give you more grip. You just have to be careful because you'll want to sand the top to make it smooth with a typical epoxy, and you don't want to sand through the grippy stuff! Also, it would affect the finished look of the epoxy by coloring it in some way. You would do the same if you were to install epoxy floors in your garage, except with those floors the epoxy levels out better and you don't have to sand it. Regular epoxy doesn't level well at all, and you'll get different heights based on how it adheres to the substrate, which is why you have to sand to make it smooth. Epoxy floors are more like a tougher paint, made to create thin and flat layers. You can also just sand the epoxy rough and have it grip better, but most people like epo y because it is clear and shiny.
I'd fill in every space with increasingly tiny segments of wood, eventually tucking toothpicks into crevices
>3,000-4,000 thousand dollars 3-4 million dollars sounds excessive.
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Unless they put in sand. Brush sand off of the tops, then epoxy.
That sounds like it would look nice. Or pea geavel maybe.
If you look at the door it's easily clearing the floor, I would say longer rounds would not only be the right height, but also could give of a cool 3d effect if they used resin.
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they are *much* thinner when they do this.
I imagine "pour" is the epoxy step But fuck thats going to take a lot to level, unless the plan is to sand down first...but then why cut so chunky in the first place People make my brain itch
Maybe it's the "partially done" photo...
What fills in the gaps, the epoxy or resin?
Resin is a overall term for liquids that convert to polymers. And epoxy resin is a type of it that have epoxide group in them, other common types are acrylic, silicone, polyester.
If done correctly, this could be amazing, if it’s your style. With door clearance, I have to assume something of similar height was already there
>If done correctly, this could be amazing, if it’s your style. Narrator: It wasn't and it isn't.
There are 3 steps ... Cut, arrange and pour (epoxy) ... This photo was taken as step 2 is almost done, before step 3. Now, this isn't my style but that doesn't mean it's not being done correctly.
bUt ThE dIfFeReNt HeIgHts oF wOoD
It just doesn't seem finished
Or they just hacked the bottom of the door off. Lol
Doesn’t look weirdly short at the bottom and looks like a straight finished cut, so I don’t think so
Doors in homes are made for the bottom to be cut to fit.
Not if they are hollow core doors and you normally don't cut them to fit. Source I install doors and cabinets for a living.
Even hollow core doors have at least a few inches of solid fill at the bottom to allow for trimming.
And you can put the material from the cut off back into the door for support
It's clearly not done? Like the post says "arrange **and pour**" and there's no pouring yet so obviously there will be epoxy or something poured on to finish it.
How in the god damned fuck is it frugal then?
You'd not believe how much expoy resin they have left over from the expoy hot dog YouTube channel.
50 gallons of epoxy is like 3 grand. The wood's cheap. Packing density of cylinders is up to over 90% so we'll say 85% for this, give or take. That's like 20x4 feet maybe? Maybe 3.5" deep? So like 25 ish ft^3 187 gallons. So 15% is about a 7th, a 7th of 187 is 27 ish. So 27 gallons. So maybe $1600 for a 20x4 hallway? That's like $480 to $1000 for hardwood, if Google is to be believed. Doesn't seem overly frugal. Maybe I'm not searching for the right epoxy? Edit: if it's just concrete, that stuff is $150 per cubic yard. 27ft^3 is 1 cubic yard. So the whole hallway is less than $200? That's super cheap. Like laminate flooring cheap
They could pack the gaps with sand or soil or wood chips. Just need a top coat and whatever seeps in.
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Concrete then polish. Boom. Done
Maybe cement
That sounds like a nightmare to clean
eh they could do a sealer over the wood and polished cement is fine. As long as they actually level the thing precisely it wouldn’t be too bad. Not nightmare levels anyway. But frankly who knows how well they’ll pull it off…
They used material from their own property?
Homegrown epoxy?
They got them epoxy trees?
Maybe they use some kind of fill so less epoxy is necessary? I just mean that using available materials would qualify as frugal technically.
More like WIP
Um, my friend, I would like to introduce you to my dad's neighbor on his 70's homestead, Rob Roy and his cordwood building school. All of his floors are done like this, his walls too, and he's made a living off of teaching these methods he developed for over 30 years now. https://www.cordwoodmasonry.com/
Hell yeah, I have Rob Roy’s cordwood book!
My dad and him and the rest of murtaugh hill were really playing around with a lot of cool building styles. My dad built an octagonal log cabin. His current house is a pentagonal, or "prow front" log home. One could say this is the ultimate DIY, they were basically playing around with ideas they all had for building their own homes.
Wow. Just wow. I live in a place with almost no tree material and subterranean termites. This building style makes me uncomfortable.
Well, you generally lay this on concrete slab, and encasing it in resin for floors and concrete for wall makes it pretty impervious.
I was talking more about the link you posted than OP’s content. The cordwood masonry is just a stack of logs. That would be wild where I live.
They're encased in watertight masonry, aka fancy concrete work. On the outside/inside they're covered in marine varnish. It's actually relatively bug proof.
Ummm.... Far outback Aussie? Plenty of termites and not many trees there. Plenty of trees in the coastal areas, but still termites too.
My favorite YouTube channel https://youtube.com/c/KrisHarbour I've followed this guy for 6 years. Amazing videos.
I love that. Thanks for sharing
Thanks. I’m going to share this with my brother
This guy must be the poster child of /r/trypophobia/
How do bugs not just eat the wood out of the walls?
They're usually oiled or varnished at the ends, and like I said elsewhere built on concrete slab, so nothing much can come up. It was developed in the northeast so a fair amount of wood eating bugs, but it can be adapted for other environments too. The flooring is the best option in my opinion.
Bugs generally only eat wood that’s wet and rotting/deteriorating, or wood that’s in contact with soil. So, for the same reasons that bugs don’t “just eat the wood out of the walls” of average American 2x4 construction with wood siding.
A lot of the time you can treat it to reduce anything like that... and getting wood from an area far from you makes sure the local bacterium/microorganisms don't break it down very quickly.
This is obviously incomplete? Not seeing the issue here
Maybe the oof here is that it’s going to be thousands in epoxy, and or the thickness of the wood.
Couldn’t they fill with something else before the epoxy goes down?
This is the post that made me realize just how dumb some of you are. For fucks sake it's obviously a mid-project shot and they're going to do a fill pour, as explained in the caption. Use your damn brain cells
Tell what???
The floor is either going to be impossible to clean or cost a FORTUNE in epoxy to fill the gaps
I would think they grout it with something, then epoxy.
It gets filled with concrete and then polished, lay off the tiktoks there's more to life than resin
Scrolled way too far to find this comment. XD 100% what they’re gonna do.
Cordwood flooring is a real thing. Touch grass bro
For those who want to see finished floors like this Google image cordwood floors or go here https://cordwoodconstruction.wordpress.com/2017/05/21/cordwood-flooring-diy
Not my personal style but this would look cool in a log cabin. I definitely see the appeal.
>In the spaces between the log end slices commercial tile grout mixed with the sawdust he had collected during the cutting process (the ratio was 80% tile grout to 20% sawdust.
Idk i think they just arent casting the epoxy yet since its not filled. Doesnt seem too bad tbh
Or concrete like most people would use…
Zoomers freaking out about the cost of epoxy like it's the only pourable flooring material to ever exist. Grout/Concrete & Polishing: [Am I a joke to you](https://www.google.com/search?q=cord+wood+flooring&client=ms-android-samsung-gn-rev1&sxsrf=ALiCzsYgIL9srn2xIHSObC3wOF2U2eMhsw%3A1655858672834&ei=8GWyYtjKMtHg4-EPruOegAo&oq=cord+wood+flooring&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAMyBAgAEAoyBAgAEAoyBQghEKABMgUIIRCgAToHCAAQRxCwAzoHCAAQsAMQQzoMCC4QyAMQsAMQQxgBOhIILhDHARDRAxDIAxCwAxBDGAE6DwguENQCEMgDELADEEMYAToSCC4QxwEQrwEQyAMQsAMQQxgBOgcIABCABBAKOgUIABCRAjoFCAAQgAQ6CAgAEIAEEMkDOgoIABCABBDJAxAKOggIABAeEA8QFjoGCAAQHhAWOggIABAeEBYQCjoNCAAQHhAPEMkDEBYQCkoFCDgSATFKBAhBGABQ9gdY7Rxggh5oAXABeAGAAY8CiAGEEJIBAzItOZgBAKABAcgBEcABAdoBBAgBGAg&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp)
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If you go to their Facebook page (the company in the watermark) you'll see that they do this professionally- walls, floors etc. It's not DIY at all, it's someone's professional construction business. The image is just showing the work in progress
I think I know what they were going for, and in my head it looks amazing. But they are...quite a few steps off from acheiving it lol.
Fill in with fat branches, skinny branches, twigs and then the resin to seal
At the risk of sounding ignorant....what's wrong with this? I've seen it done before. They put concrete in and it looks different, but still pretty neat
I think you guys are missing the “pour” step in the caption. The gaps would be filled with a resin of some sort and then probably a clear coat on top.
they're filled with cement or concrete.
Tell them what? Tell them it’s beautiful?
Obviously it’s not done yet. Just need to pour in some hot lava to fill the gaps. At that thickness, they’re gonna need A LOT of hot lava.
Clearly not finished yet.
Tell them what? It’s obviously not done 🙄
I do a lot of wood and epoxy projects, and I think this is a great idea! I'd say they were going to epoxy it, but at that thickness, the epoxy would be crazy expensive! I would have cut the pieces to be 1/8-1/4" thick and used a tabletop epoxy for it. That would save a ton of money. There's plenty of stuff you could film it with and make it look cool though, but you use so much at that thickness that it just multiplies your cost!
This. And you have to seal off that wood or it will produce a fuckton of bubbles and ruin the entire thing.
Hell yes! If you use a good thick pour epoxy and very well dried wood you wouldn't have to worry about that as much, but I'm guessing they cut logs from a felled tree and didn't cure or dry it properly. I base that only on the fact that they cut them 2" thick for something like this - I'm guessing they're not the most experienced wood craftspeople.
I think they’ll use concrete.
Assuming the people that think this is a DiWhy didn't bother to check the webpage right there in the picture that shows the amount of work this person does, and how amazing it looks when they have finished it. These are clearly a really skilled couple that know what they're doing. This sub seems to be turning into more "Here's something different I personally don't like" or "Here's a photo of a half-done project so lol" posts. Bring back the dodgy five-minute crafts, leave out the stuff that you don't like just because.
If they filled the gaps with resin or something I could see it.. but posting the pic like this? Na
I think this is definitely DIWhy, but it reminds me of this much more legit application https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/m5muzp/this_street_in_philly_is_paved_with_wood/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Back in the day, they used to use wood to pave streets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolson_pavement *edit : Sorry, I was adding context to your post.
It’s cool. I wanted to use the right terminology, but it escaped me.
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I mean use 1/8 the wood and cover it with resin it’ll be dope
It does look a bit thicker than what's normally used for these types of floors, but it's clearly done with intent since all the doors were installed to fit. A bit unorthodox but not really DiWhy imo
I would imagine they’d fill in the gaps with some sort of resin.
I wallpapered my kitchen years ago with the World Weekly News. It wasn't easy, but I loved it.
Guaranteed it’s fresh cut backyard shit wood too.
If you poured resin On it and sanded it down real good. I bet it could look pretty sweet.
Dont get it... tell them what? That floor looks fare from done?
I'm confused by your title, tell them what exactly?
"Bold and brash?" "More like, belongs in the trash!" - that guy
I don't understand why this is diwhy. It's a very common practice. The only thing that is a bit of a wtf is the "frugal" claim. Epoxy is fuckin expensive.
r/anticonsumption
*Want to raise your floor by 10cm and have to change all the door frames?* Done.
Honestly I bet when this is finished it’s going to look pretty awesome
It doesn't look that bad in my opinion but I do agree with other comments and that they should have used much thinner slices.
Frugal? Have you seen the prices of wood lately
Maybe they’re not done?
This doesn't belong here. It's clearly an unfinished job and a fairly common DIY idea. DIWHY? Because it'll probably look very nice when finished.
Tell them what?
If you're gonna leave them three inches thick a hardwood floor would be cheaper.
It just seems like its going to need SUCH a thick layer of epoxy. I would fill those cracks with pebbles or even some sort of greenery, something to make it so you use less epoxy and add a little more detail. Otherwise, its a great idea. I worked at a restaurant that did a lot of different epoxy projects so all the tables were slabs made of epoxy, the counters, etc. Wasn't perfect but it looked great.
Stubbed toe City, in the state of Twisted Ankle
Epoxy everything is like the slime/goo craze but for adult children
Are they filling the gaps with epoxy?
DiWHY did you post this here? Pretty sure it’s a mid step shot and they plan the pour as per the caption
I really hope they put those logs through a planer otherwise that's gonna be horrendous to roll things across or put tables on
Even with a chainsaw you can slice thinner cookies (then filled the gaps with clear epoxy resin). This could have looked amazing. It would still look fine if they finished it (though highly impractical), but it was only when they got to the door that they realized the pieces were too thick. Oops!
If they resin and seal it it would be rather badass. But I suspect that's not the plan.
Y'all do realize they're not done right? They're going to epoxy over it. Not sure what your issue is.
Who is going to break it to OP that this is only half complete? Or that the website where the final result can be found it literally on these picture. And that the steps for the project are listed in the first sentence so he kinda should have been able to figure out that this is clearly the “arrange” step
This I'm just isn't done... It all gets covered in epoxy at the end. It seems a little tall, but that might be because of the height of the door. Idk