Floor Width
One easy way to bring classic wood floors into your home while keeping it feeling fresh modern and relevant is to use varying widths in the same room.
Floor width. A 2 by 10 joist is really only 9 1 4 inches wide and a 2 by 12 is only 11 1 4 inches wide so depending upon which size joist the blueprints call for they will add the respective measurement to the thickness of the floor. As you can see the wider you go the fewer seams you have on the floor. There are width categories to choose from depending on the manufacturer.
Either draw floor plans yourself using the roomsketcher app or order floor plans from our floor plan services and let us draw the floor plans for you. Selecting the right plank width is an important part of your flooring project. If you upgrade your floor from the standard 3 strips to an average width of 8 you will reduce the number of seams in your floor by 80.
Roomsketcher provides high quality 2d and 3d floor plans quickly and easily. Each of these photos represents a 3 4 wide span. For those unable to decide or who are looking for a more random look shaw offers styles with even combinations of 3 inch widths 5 inch widths and 7 inch widths.
Solid hardwood flooring dimensions unfinished and prefinished solid hardwood flooring are typically 3 4 of an inch thick and come in numerous of width from 1 1 2 to 8 inches. Actual wearing layer of solid wood floor is normally 5 16 or approximately 8 millimeters what makes the hardwood suitable for a few times refinishing.