Cedar lined closet
My wife's idea is to cover our walk-in closet floor in aromatic cedar. Sounds like a good idea, however, being a new-be handyman, I am a little wary about the project. I could use all the thoughts/help/suggestions anyone has to offer. Thanks. you have to remember that you shouldn't seal the cedar in any way. it needs to be raw wood. the closet should be sealed as well as possible to keep the smell in, and also make it last longer. it will need to be lightly sanded every few years to open up new pores and get the smell back. they make aromatic cedar in planks, 4x8 sheets of chips glued together, and even in a click together system like laminate flooring. the more cedar you can put in there, the better. i've never seen it on closet FLOORS though.......shouldn't it just go on the walls and ceiling??? Originally Posted by tae you have to remember that you shouldn't seal the cedar in any way. it needs to be raw wood. the closet should be sealed as well as possible to keep the smell in, and also make it last longer. it will need to be lightly sanded every few years to open up new pores and get the smell back. they make aromatic cedar in planks, 4x8 sheets of chips glued together, and even in a click together system like laminate flooring. the more cedar you can put in there, the better. Thanks Tae, I'm farther along with your thoughts. Can you tell me a little more about the 4X8 sheets. Are they thin like wall paneling? Would installation require nailing or glue? Originally Posted by Annette i've never seen it on closet FLOORS though.......shouldn't it just go on the walls and ceiling??? Annette: Like I said, It was my wife's idea. I've never seen aromatic cedar on floors either, but, one must not argue, one must accomplish the task at hand and make an attempt to appease. Aromatic Cedar comes in planks measuring 5/16 thick and available in varying lengths. You can also get it in 4 x 8 panels, ј thick. These can be installed on closet walls for a cedar lined closet. The cedar chip (particleboard) panels are less expensive than cedar boards. Cedar planks are more attractive and probably easier to install. You will need to locate studs so you can nail panels to walls. Leave a 1/8 gap between panels to allow for expansion contraction. If installing tongue groove cedar boards, begin installation at floor with tongue facing toward floor. Typically, cedar lined closets do not include the floor. Installing cedar on floor only in closet may not give you enough of that cedar smell that accompanies a cedar-lined closet and repels moths. Twelvepole: Thanks for the input. The TG is beginning to sound like what I've been looking for. If I stick with the floor, I'm thinking the tongue to the back of the closet? If you are going to do just the floor as wife wants, the tongue and groove cedar can be installed. Leave a 3/4 expansion gap for expansion and contraction. If you start at back of closet wall the first 3-4 rows of boards can be drilled and face nailed. You can rent a flooring nailer to install the remainder of boards. Or, you can drill and nail if closet is not large. Expansion gap along walls will require covering with baseboard and quarter round or shoe molding. Since keeping the wife happy seems to be the most important part of this project I would like to add a little more food for thought. I'm another one that has never seen the floor of a cedar closet done in cedar. I mean never and I have seen a bunch of them. Common sense is telling me that using cedar for the flooring is almost shooting yourself in the foot. The floor is what is going to get walked on, stuff slide on , boxes stored on it and all these things will take away the smell from the cedar and that is our second goal here. You will be sanding the floor every other weekend just to get the aroma back. My2cents. Originally Posted by jim123 You will be sanding the floor every other weekend just to get the aroma back That's about what I figure too, except not just the aroma I have seen an walk-in unfinished cedar floor and it looked like butt after two weeks Murphy's Oil Soap can only clean it so much, as the dirt is ground into the unfinished cedar with every step And of course all that water on unfinished wood.... And of course calling me to sand it was quite a pain (they had to empty the closet) so they'd wait longer and longer in between, which just meant it was harder and harder to sand They must have given up as I haven't seen the closet in....maybe a year I would agree keeping the wife happy is the most important thing But iI can't see this as turning out like she planned As the original post is from a few months ago, I wonder how it turned out
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