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I will lay a basket weave pattern in the main field. I would like to have a slight bias in color between the two major directions in the pattern. I notice that in many pictures it appears as if this was an intentional designed element. Is this practical? Would I be better off using two different species such as white and red oak? If I gave half the boards a pre-stain could I achieve the same effect (that would survive sanding)?
Thank you in advance for your help.
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Thank you in advance for your help.
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Welcome to the forums. Please
familiarise yourself with
//www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=19448
You have posted three times with a similar thing, I will delete the others.
You can use the "edit" button to add text to a post you have already written.
We call this kind of flooring "parquet" so I will add this to your thread title (this is a UK site)
Use this link to look at the Flooring forum //www.diynot.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=16
Mod Rupert
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JohnandBarbara said:I will lay a basket weave pattern in the main field. I would like to have a slight bias in color between the two major directions in the pattern. I notice that in many pictures it appears as if this was an intentional designed element. Is this practical? Would I be better off using two different species such as white and red oak? If I gave half the boards a pre-stain could I achieve the same effect (that would survive sanding)?
Thanks for the help.
JohnandBarbara said:Although I have laid floors before, I am about to lay my first parquet floor. I am uncomfortable with gluing down 3/4 inch solid wood (over plywood) without mechanical fasteners and/or tongue and groove support. Is this fear justified? I will use strip flooring outside the field. Do I also glue this down?
Thank you in advance for your help.