On Jan 19, 12:18*am, David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 1/18/2011 8:36 PM aemeijers spake thus:

OSB is not a wearing surface. Traffic paths or any point loads will
shred it. Go buy a vinyl remnant you can stand the pattern of, cut to
fit, but don't glue it down, just put transitions at the doors, and
maybe edging along wall to keep it from curling. That way, if you ever
decide to put a real floor in there, you can take it back to bare OSB in
a few minutes.

Maybe, maybe not.

A friend owns a building nearby in Oakland, an older commercial building
with businesses downstairs and a couple of living units and studios
upstairs. He and his partners had it renovated probably 20 years ago.
One of the kind of experimental things they did was using OSB as
finished floors upstairs.

I wouldn't have believed it, generally disliking OSB as I do, but the
floors are beautiful and they've stood up to a lot of traffic very well.
They were sanded and varnished. Probably 3/4" or 1" boards.

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4 -5 coats of polyurethane should be pretty good for a wearing
surface.. But, I will
not have a wearing surface. I think I WILL use oil poly when the
weather warms up.
I'm not in a hurry for that.

I would have used plywood, but I'm cheap, and 3/4 inch is too heavy.
I also did not use tongue and groove after long thought.
I also did not put finished side down as recommended.

greg