Wide board pine flooring

One popular option for wood flooring is just using #2 wide (1x10 or 1x12) board pine as your finish floor. I have recently installed two pine floors in cahoots with my cohorts at Sustainable Structures. One was in an upstairs bedroom (a low traffic location) and one was in a kitchen (a high traffic location), both in the same house. There are many who would not recommend putting a soft wood like pine (specifically Eastern White Pine, Pinus Strobus) down in a high traffic area. It is admittedly very scrape, scratch and dent prone (think dropped kitchen utensils etc), but with a hard finish it can be an viable option. The other positive aspect about pine flooring for many people is its low price. In some instances, unfinished 1x12 pine can be purchased for less than a dollar per square foot, then add installation and sanding/finishing (at a dollar per foot each) and you have a nice looking real wood floor at $3.00/foot. But remember it won't be like hardwood in any way.






















Mark, enjoying some sun while making new cabinet parts.





















Troy and Pete installing a rosin paper underlayment around the brick woodstove base.






















Unfinished pine flooring, installed.






















Unfinished Pine flooring face nailed with hand cut square nails.