As part of our ongoing project to update the Cartolina studio we decided that we needed a workshop.
Doug built an addition onto the studio and decided to finish the floor using ‘end grain block flooring’. It’s actually a really old style of flooring that was commonly used on factory floors in the 19th century.
We had some leftover beam ends in the shed from a previous project – kiln dried fir- and he set to work, slicing them up into 3″ x 7″ blocks, about 3/4 inches thick. It took him quite a long time to slice up all the blocks and sand the edges.
Once he had prepared 850 blocks he glued them to the plywood floor using a non water based, flexible flooring adhesive.
