Installing 3 4 Oak Flooring

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Installing 3 4 oak flooring.

At the bottom we provide links to posts on the tools we use and frequently recommend for hardwood. It chronicles tutorials for each step of the process derived from our installation of 3 4 inch solid tongue and groove brazilian walnut hardwoods in our own home. It is the responsibility of the installer and owner to ensure that job site. Use a pneumatic flooring nailer or a nail gun to drive the.

Depending on what width hardwood you are installing this line will be different. We first ran this article in 2010. 3 4 solid rev 012113 page 1 3 4 solid hardwood flooring installation instructions. It provides detailed instructions for installing hardwood flooring over a wood substructure.

Expansion gaps of 3 4 are required between flooring and all walls in room. This flooring can be installed over old wood flooring or over a plywood sub floor. Here s how to install flooring using the staple down method. Typically used for engineereed hardwood staple down installation works well with 3 8 5 8 inch flooring.

Determine a starting wall. Begin with the first row pre drilling holes. Blind nail wood flooring. Next using your hammer insert a nail 1 inch from the wall and about every 4 inches along the board.

Grade levels where moisture conditions do not exist. Our job calls for a 3 1 4 wide prefinished bruce winter white product. A minimum 3 4 inch thick sub floor is required. When possible always begin the layout from the straightest wall which usually tends to be an outside wall.

If you are working atop a single plywood layer we recommend adding a second layer of 1 4 to 1 2 inch plywood or commercial floor substrate material. Includes planning equipment and material acquisition area preparation and protection setup and cleanup. Direction of the flooring should be installed at a 90 degree right angle to the floor joists. Use wood or drywall screws to attach the substrate to the floor.

Install the rest of the boards by blind nailing them which means to nail them through their tongues with 2 inch flooring cleats. There is a full basement living space under first floor. Install underlayment on clean level subfloor. Incidentally this was a cabin grade product installed in 2003 purchased off the internet with the customer full aware of what to expect with a cabin grade hardwood.

Acclimate cull and blend flooring.