Engineered White Oak Hardwood at The Real ReBuild!

oh man my house is in a really fun stage of construction hardwood floors start today that's right these floors are about to get some gorgeous hardwood started i got a fun video we're going to talk about all the parts and pieces lots of nerdy stuff and i'm going to show you a gorgeous floor today's video is sponsored by delta millworks let's get going [Music] all right so we're starting upstairs on the second floor of my house we're using a really cool product but you know what hardwood floor is really important to get the prep right now there's two types of prep you're sometimes going for a level you're sometimes going for flat in my case i'm not super worried about being level this is new construction if i'm a hair off of level no big deal but what i do want is a flat floor and so kristin hardwood floor is my local contractor that's installing these delta millworks floors which by the way are available nationwide has done an amazing job of prep so let's start in my daughter's bedroom and i'll show you what they've done over here so first off i did not cover my advantech prior to um sheetrock upstairs which meant that i had a fair amount of prep that needed to be done up here now they used a buffer with a very uh thick heavy grit sanding pad i think it was a 30 grit check this out y'all this is a 26 grit pad that the christian guys put on their buffer wilson and his boys uh they did a quick cloth of my floor i did not cover these floors ahead of time so they buffed them all down with this 26 grit look how nice that looks and that's basically what you're left with right here which is uh you're going to see that they got some of the top grain off but there's still a little bit of sheetrock dust down into the corners they also did a really good job of double checking there weren't any high nails because they found a couple places where my seams needed just a little bit of sanding that's not from swell necessarily because you're only going to notice like two or three spots like that but we did use a um hand planer pardon me an electric planer in a few spots to do that and we ran a giant level on floor to make sure that it was as flat as possible now i did have a little bit uh of a of a kind of a depression in here so we ran some floor leveler uh to fill that and this is dried super fast so same day install i think that's the only spot that we needed to we're walking down the hallway now to my boys bedroom boys bedroom we did a little bit of prep as well this room turned out great so we know any problems here so hardwoods are prepped let's get into it and we'll uh we'll pick up the video as we get started wilson and his crew from chris they're doing a great job over here this is my first run on the boards look how pretty those are wilson [Music] so we're using uh glue on this and they've nailed the starter strip this is the long hallway that goes down um uh basically a continuous board from the top of the stairs they've run a chalk liner on that glue so they don't go too far and get it everywhere and then watch wilson beat this thing in place he's done this before he's got a nice clean rubber mallet i saw those guys cleaning off their mounts at the beginning today make sure they're nice and clean here's emma running the next run right here they're staggering the seams make sure they're steep those seams are nice and staggered [Music] first room is done this looks so nice now that we're done the first thing we're gonna do is cover this immediately you can see some dust marks from our drywall feet but we're going to cover this thing up with some ram board and you're noticing that we didn't quite run it tight to the floor there's a little tight here in this direction but in this width direction we've run it with at least a half inch or so down the wall to leave some expansion and contraction room that's best practice even though this is an incredibly stable floor we want to make sure that we've got some need for expansion and contractions ready for some rambo looking good all right day two of my install wilson's prep in the entire floor is almost done and below uh this is a concrete slab and then if you saw my videos i put an inch and a half of halo insulation down and then there's two layers of three-quarter plywood so this advantek which you see running this way has another layer of advantec running horizontally and it's glued and screwed to each other you can see i've got uh screw marks here and then i used advancetech glue underneath that so i've got a very very flat floor wilson's running a 30 around a 30 grit sandpaper on here just to make sure that everything is nice and uh nice and clean basically so his glue has something to stick to no dirt no junk on there and look how nicely it's cleaning up i mean it's beautiful it's leaving a little bit of a yellow film uh or yellow dust i should say that they're cleaning up but they laid the entire second floor of the house yesterday i suspect they'll lay the entire first floor today all right guys let's take a minute and talk about these woods now this is a european oak and what's amazing about it is that gosh i have yet to see a board with any bigger of a knot than that one right there it's all pre-finished which has been fantastic for my schedule you know the crew finished the entire second floor in one day and if you look at the profile on the floor check this out very thick uh wear layer on the top which means i can sand this several times and then very tight plywood in the center that's a no footballs on that core lots of plies nice and stable and then if you flip this floor over which you can see at the top of these bags it's the same wood on the top uh or pardon me on the bottom as the top which is going to lead to ultimate stability on this floor very very impressive product they're gonna start at the front door and work their way back and we measured uh because we're going side to side in the house i thought that made the most sense to lay the boards uh we did a really good measure on the board because it's not quite 10 inches it's actually like a 16 or maybe somewhere between an eighth and a sixteenth shy of 10 inches in width so we wanted to take that measurement from here to here so we're going to start actually with just shy of a full board on this side so that we'll have about the same on this side of the house you got to really spend your time measuring and wilson and his crew have done an awesome job extremely precise all right we're at the front door the first beat of glue going down emma's done this before this is not her first rodeo here's our uh mypay ultrabond eco 975. [Music] standard urethane adhesive for hardwood flooring interesting they taped these together [Music] not quite sure why any dash wilson about that all right we're looking good at my front door check this out front door's right there we got about half the foyer done emma's spreading wilson's nailing down uh we're not nailing down he's rubber malleting down i was thinking the other day when i uh sometimes when i think hardwood floors some of us including me sometimes when it comes to pre-finished have this bruce hardwood floors kind of uh mentality i'm sure bruce has gotten a lot better but when i installed them in the 90s it was a production builder floor and those floors in particular when you had a gap between the floors there was a pretty good bevel and clients get upgraded to a micro bevel but it was not flat and what's amazing about this floor is that it's totally flat uh the other thing that production builders love about pre-finished floors that custom guys typically shied away from was well two things number one you couldn't get the exact finish you want and that's not true with these i was able to totally customize with rachel pax and my interior designer to get this exact color sheen everything and then they were boxed up and shipped here but again these are totally flat so when they get rubber mounted in place there's no there's nothing to trip there's there's nothing you're going to see on this floor to give it away that this is not a sight finish floor and chris nick's done a ton of sight finish lore for me and i've loved them in the past in fact i've been a bit of a snob on on site finished floors because i love them so much but in this case we've got a floor that totally kills the schedule it's awesome i'm knocking this floor out wilson and his crew are knocking my entire house with the hardwoods 22 2300 square feet of hardwoods in two days done no need to come back and sand and finish so now i can come in with my benchmark uh crystal cabinets and install them here in the foyer i can put all my base mold down later and not have any additional shoe moldings or other frilly pieces that need to kind of cover that gap up again you're going to notice that wilson's maintaining some gap between the wall and the in the floors allow for a little bit of expansion although i think that this floor is stable as it is it's not going to see any expansion or contraction all right as we've got a long portion of the house coming up they've run to the here and the house is about a quarter inch out of squares so so they ran a string line from this side all the way to the other tweak these two boards and we're gonna move just a hair from here over that way when we get out to this wall and land at this door we'll have a nice straight board [Music] wilson and the guys from uh christian hardwood floors just finishing up these guys are tired look how good that floor looks we've already covered the entry we're gonna cover the rest of the floor with some ram board but man it is looking really good um i think you guys caught what i'm doing next on trim but just to verify uh i've got this ship lap going down that's going to end right at the floor there they just have a little bit more to finish and then my cabinets are coming next week all my baseboards will come after that so amazing job by chris nick and beautiful product by delta millworks chris nick is local to austin texas so if you're in austin great hardwood company delta millwork so they'll sell to see anywhere in the u.s great company based here in austin texas but they ship nationwide really all of north america amazing people so big thanks to those guys for sponsoring today's video if you're not currently a subscriber guys hit that subscribe button we've got new content here on the build show every tuesday and every friday by the way sign up in the description for my friday newsletter because we actually are publishing six new videos a week over on buildshownetwork.com follow me on twitter instagram otherwise we'll see you next time on the bill show [Music] you

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Length: 13min 2sec (782 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 12 2021