Top Nail Wide Board Pine Flooring

Typical fasteners used for engineered flooring are narrow crowned under 3 8 1 1 1 2 staples or 1 1 1 4 hardwood flooring cleats spaced every 3 4 with staples every 4 6 with cleats and within 1 2 of end joints.

Top nail wide board pine flooring. How to install top nailed wood floor. It just depends on how narrow you indoor humidly range is. Lay a board down and drive 1 1 2 inch finishing nails by hand for the first few rows at a slanted angle through the board s tongue into the subfloor. This top nail flooring does not have tongue groove milling on the sides or the ends meaning you have to nail it through the face the top of the planks to install.

In addition we recommend that you nail into every joist 16 o c or at least into every other joist 32 o c. When using a flooring nailer the nose of the tool is set down on the top inside corner of the board s tongue while the nail is driven at an angle through the flooring material and into the subfloor. Each plank is precision cut and ready for you to install sand and finish to your liking. So if all this sounds like too much work just buy the standard 3 1 4 wide t g strip floor and blind nail it simply and easily with the flooring nailer.

The tongue and groove pine flooring must run perpendicular to the floor joists. They have the best 2 pine boards ever that are really better than the big box stores best wood. A 4 wide plank is still begging to be face pegged as i mentioned also in the article. Tongue and groove flooring boards didn t become popular in america until the end of the 19th century.

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 you are going to use pine boards as flooring you will want to get them from your local lumber yard. This is our 5 16 top nail red oak flooring in 2 common grade and a 2 board width. Face nailing by using the traditional method of face nailing we believe that this flooring can be installed in a fraction of the time required to toe nail narrow strip hardwood flooring.

Use the appropriate fastener and a nail gun required by the flooring manufacturer. Hairline gaps however are a natural and expected part of the traditional appearance of a wide pine floor. Nail the boards into every joist. The saving in labor is significant.

Before that floors were made from straight planks. The 3 4 in thick solid plank flooring shown is milled with a tongue and groove.