Thread: Laying the flooring

Originally Posted by Larry McCully

Thanks brother, for some strange reason i am taking that as a compliment. lol keep going mate you will get their ,and when you do and its all over, you will have something of beauty in front of you and you did it. That is what keeps us going through the big difficult ones. The end result.

Spot on, Larry.

Great work, shedhand. You've just saved yourself a heap of labour cost.
Way to go.
Looks the goods too.

Dusty.

Originally Posted by Shedhand

DONE.....'ere 'tis. I have a bit of it (bottom left hand) a quick touch up with the ROS to see how it will come up after I have it sanded. Nice, very nice.

Well done mate.

Thanks Dusty and Larry. Rich praise from a couple of pro's. Means a lot.
Cheers

Ok. Now I've finally finished laying all the T&G. Looks great.
Finishing off the step now. Its a single step 4 metres wide and I'm putting 5 brushed stainless steel flush mounted 14mm L.E.D. deck lights in the kicker 40mm off the lower floor. Will look great and highlight the step.
The sanding guy comes in next week and I'm finishing with 3 coats of Treatex.
Will post some pics when thats done.
Cheers

Originally Posted by Shedhand

Ok. Now I've finally finished laying all the T&G. Looks great.
Finishing off the step now. Its a single step 4 metres wide and I'm putting 5 brushed stainless steel flush mounted 14mm L.E.D. deck lights in the kicker 40mm off the lower floor. Will look great and highlight the step.
The sanding guy comes in next week and I'm finishing with 3 coats of Treatex.
Will post some pics when thats done.
Cheers

The lights sound like a great idea, can imagine the reflection on the gloss finish, looking forward to the pics.

G'day all.
Well it's taken me most of 3 days to do but the steps are done.
I designed and built and wired them up myself. (You can legally do 12v wiring)

I used 140mm x 32 mm Select Tasmanian Oak for the tread and riser. I glued and dowelled two lengths to make a tread 4m wide x 270mm deep. The riser is 140mm x 32mm to a finished height of 172mm.

The step delineates the renovated dining area from the new kithchen and living area so I decided to make it a feature by installing deck lights flush into the tread.

However, after thinking about it I thought it was a bit over the top. So I went for small (14mm) brushed stainless steel LED's mounted flush in the riser 30mm from the floor.

The 12v loom is properly secured inside the step and runs through a floor joist to a 240v outlet my sparky installed under the house.


Anyway it looks great. And SWMBO is mightily impressed (she didn't know I was gonna do it and she's been away all weekend.)

Next project. The laundry cupboards.

I've ordered all the kitchen carcasses and they'll be here in 7 weeks.

Cheers

Gee that floor looks GREAT! And the LED's are a terrific feature. Hope all your jointy bits are repairing themselves and not too sore now.

Can you give me a few more details about the 12v LED system? What is the rated candlepower of each LED, voltage of the LED,, wired in series? and resistors in the circuit? Better still, can you sketch a circuit diagram with all the values and post it on here somehow? I like the LED idea and can think of a couple of applications around here.
Many thanks,
Jeff

Mate, I know 3/5ths of 1/11th of sfa about electrical stuff but i think it looks somfink like this......

seriously tho..I got lucky in Bunnings and came across 3 boxes of the 14mm LED made by RingGrip who have gone bust. I bought the 3 boxed sets of 4 lights pre-wired and with a master and slave junction box and transformer for 8 bucks a box. Couldn't believe my luck.
Thanks for the positive comments. I appreciate all praise.

I just dug out a pamphlet. They are wired in series (whatever that means). i can hook 32 of the 14mm lights to one transformer. In the back under specifications its says:
Power source -220v-240v, 50hz AC
Load rating -6W Max
Weatherproof rating -IP44

I think if you multiply everything by everything else and divide by pi you get the candlepower...

Hope this helps.
Cheers

Its killing you aye? Me and the boss are laying just over 250sqm of floor boards which is just over 3.1km in lineal length, anyway its looking good, looks like blackbutt? Did you leave a gap between the boards and the wall?

Originally Posted by Shaun04

Its killing you aye? Me and the boss are laying just over 250sqm of floor boards which is just over 3.1km in lineal length, anyway its looking good, looks like blackbutt? Did you leave a gap between the boards and the wall?

Glad its you and not me..too old for that stuff. Left a 5mm gap each wall of length and 10mm each wall of the width. Timber moves more on the width than the length but i guess you already know that mate.
Probably looks loike blackbutt because it hasn't been sanded yet.
Cheers (get back to work).

Thanks shedhand! Off to bunnies bendigo tomorrow to seeif I can track down a box or two.
Jeff

Originally Posted by woodsprite

Thanks shedhand! Off to bunnies bendigo tomorrow to seeif I can track down a box or two.
Jeff

goodluck.