u/IT-Compassion

A local college is demolishing their entire 1960s maple hardwood basketball court, and giving away unlimited free panels of the tongue and groove hardwood with subfloor attached. Unfortunately they're cut into random pieces with curved edges.

I wanna use them as the floor of a 600sqft workshop I'm building. AI insists that the only way to use these is to separate each maple plank from the plywood. Do you think I could rip them into uniform squares and lay those like tiles? Also open to any other suggestions or expertise. Thank you!

EDIT: If anyone else is interested in rescuing some of this material from the dumpster, feel free to DM me. It's located in WA and they're removing 31,000sqft of flooring.