Method for making flooring using waste lumber

摘要

A method for creating a parquet flooring is disclosed where scrap slats of wood from a woodworking manufacturing operation are collected and cut into blocks of a uniform length. The blocks are then arranged into tiles having a staggered pattern. The parquet tiles are then interlocking together by rotating one of the tiles into a complimentary pattern to create a flooring.

主权项

1. A method for creating a parquet flooring comprising:
collecting scrap slats of wood from a wood cutting operation having a height “A” of 9/10ths of an inch and a range of widths between three fourths of an inch and two and one half inches (¾″-2½″); cutting the scrap slats of wood into elongate strips having a uniform width of seven sixteenths of an inch ( 7/16ths″); cutting the elongate strips into blocks having a uniform length “D”; arranging the blocks into tiles having a 3×2×3×2 repeating staggered pattern; and interlocking two tiles together by rotating one of the tiles having the 3×2×3×2 staggered pattern into complimentary pattern having a 2×3×2×3 staggered pattern.