So, I stopped by a friends house (stick frame) and they had a gorgeous hardwood flooring. This is like a 275K home, so pretty nice for our neck of the woods. It looked like it was 'scraped' by a machine or something, but very nice. This got my mind reeling about flooring for a log home. For nice hardwoods, most of the companies are around $5-7 sqft for just the board--NO installation. I've got plenty of hardwood trees on our 80 acres: persimmon, hickory, oaks, and a some walnut, too. I'm considering cutting my own hardwood flooring if I didn't think I'd jack up making the T&G part. Here are my questions:
1) Does hardwood flooring require tongue and groove cutting to work?
2) Is it better practically/financially just to buy the stuff from hardwood flooring company than DIY?
3) how long should one air dry milled/lumbered before installation?
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