Nailing Toung And Grove Flooring Through The Grouve

One of the cool things about tongue and groove walls is that you can use a technique called blind nailing if you do it properly you won t have any nail heads showing or holes to fill.

Nailing toung and grove flooring through the grouve. To keep the wide boards from cupping you ll face nail them with cut nails driven through the subfloor and into the joists photo 18. If the nail is too short it won t hold the pine tongue and groove securely to the ceiling. With tongue and groove paneling the nails are inserted into the groove and hammered to below the surface. The length of the nails is more important than the gauge when using the nails to install tongue and groove wood.

How to reverse a tongue groove wood floor. The nail must be long enough to go through the piece of pine and into the ceiling above. The tongue and groove pine flooring must run perpendicular to the floor joists. The 3 4 in thick solid plank flooring shown is milled with a tongue and groove.

Top nailing is an option with wide plank hardwood or pine floors. Drive the nails through the shoulder of the tongues into the framing at about a 45 degree angle. The next grooved edge will hide the nail holes. When you nail tongue and groove flooring properly the nails are invisible so american floor installers call the process blind nailing while british installers call it secret nailing.

Manual flooring nailers will work but are tougher and slower to use. Because the nail goes in at an angle and needs to be sunk a nail gun is a better option than a hammer. Flooring nailers replaced the hammer and nail set method but they shoot nails into the same spot the top of the tongue. Problems with nailing the groove the wood on the tongue is much thicker than the wood on the inside of the groove and less likely to split when you drive a nail.

In a typical hardwood flooring installation the tongues of the boards must all face in the same direction. To ensure that the nail gets into the groove where it will be hidden it must be inserted at an angle. After nailing the tongues of one course. Top nailing with hard cut iron nails in addition to using the flooring.

If installing one half inch pine use 1 1 2 inch nails.