How To Install Wooden Floors

Drill pilot holes and nail through the tongues for best results.

How to install wooden floors. Align the first board with the layout line with the tongue facing into the room. Make sure there are no squeaks in the. These rows are still close enough to the wall that you need to use the face nailer or a hammer.

Minimum requirements are a 3 4 plywood sub floor. To install the next row cut the board so these end joints are offset from the previous row by at least 6 inches. Hardwood floor nailer to test out which they claim is specifically designed to install brittle tongued flooring.

Install hardwood floors perpendicular to the floor joists parallel to the longest wall leaving a inch expansion gap around the perimeter. Seat the end tongue and groove flooring into each other and. Roll out strips.

Keep joints that line up at least two rows apart. Drive 6d or 8d flooring nails through the pilot holes and then drill additional pilot holes through the tongue at a. Measure the width and length of the room and multiply for the square footage.

Fortunately powernail sent me their new model 2000f 20ga. When ordering hardwood flooring. Join the ends of the boards over a floor joist where possible avoiding joints that form an h.

Snug the boards tight end to end and row to row. This nailer is much smaller than a traditional hardwood flooring nailer and doesn t require a mallet to hit the nail gun and shoot the nails. Place spacers inside the expansion gap the space between the wall and floor that allows the wood to expand from heat and humidity.