Nail Down Oak Flooring

Removing hardwood floors in one of the houses we renovated.

Nail down oak flooring. Height change is too much consider laying a laminated wood floor instead. Then nail the flooring planks with a standard flooring nailer see photo for details. It will add less than 3 4 in. Finish nails are not flooring nails.

When you nail tongue and groove flooring properly the nails are invisible so american floor installers call the process. The humble nail has a long history of craftsmanship behind every bag or box. If the 1 1 2 in. This tool should only be used for nailing near walls and not a substitute for installing the entire floor.

Expansion gaps of 3 4 are required between flooring and all walls in room. Determine a starting wall. Doing so is likely to create squeaks down the road as the fasteners begin to loosen. Bruce american originals natural red oak 3 4in.

You can either glue it down or float it the edges are either glued or snapped together. Direction of the flooring should be installed at a 90 degree right angle to the floor joists. Types of nails for laying hardwood floor. Using a proper nail gun or hardwood flooring stapler is essentially important to completing the project successfully.

W x varying l solid hardwood flooring 20 sq ft case 3 49. We used several techniques that we found very uncomfortable. Even though nail down and staple down installation has many advantages over other types of installation methods nail down installs require additional tools such as a specialty flooring nail gun jamb saw router. T x 2 1 4 in.

Find oak hardwood flooring at lowe s today. Some squeaking and crackling of the floor is normal when using the nail or staple down method and is not considered a defect. Flooring nails have special qualities that make them suitable for the job. In this case i used a porter cable pneumatic nail gun that shoots 15 gauge finish nails.

Nails approximately 2 inches in length pass through the inch plywood and still provide plenty of length to secure the plywood to the joists.