Face Nailed Hardwood Flooring

Flooring nails have special qualities that make them suitable for the job.

Face nailed hardwood flooring. The saving in labor is significant. A new stained red oak top nailed 5 16 inch wood floor in the bay. When you hear the word face nailed applied to flooring you automatically know it refers to solid wood flooring a woodlike product or even engineered wood products. Types of nails for laying hardwood floor.

The proper way to face nail is to countersink the nails with a nail punch and fill the remaining hole with coordinating wood putty. At the starting wall face nail the first row and also nail through the tongue of this first row. We suggest face nailing every other joist presuming the joists are 16 inches on center. Face nailing is the common practice used to nail the first few rows of boards in place because it is difficult to maneuver hardwood floor nail guns close to the wall.

I use pl400 for the last rows at the wall. An existing top nailed plank floor with plugs in the bay area. I never face nail. Precut one row at a time glue it every 6 in.

Never anything as narrow as 1 1 2 i think is what you stated. Engineered flooring can be installed above grade at grade and below grade level do not install hardwood flooring in bathrooms. Help please hardwood floors multiple rooms. Because it is impossible to reach the groove of tongue and groove flooring by way of blind nailing the only option is to face nail that last row.

I m assuming your flooring is tongue and groove. While hardwood floors aren t my specialty i installed several last year. Unless the walls are way out of parallel do what calvin suggests and start along one wall and not in the center. They will move slightly and that always bothers me as well.

See photos of 5 16 wood flooring. 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. The humble nail has a long history of craftsmanship behind every bag or box. On every floor the last several runs were face nailed using a 15ga nailer.

With flooring face nailing refers to finish nails or floor staples forced perpendicular into the face of the last row of floorboards. Always check with the manufacturer s instructions to determine if your hardwood floor can be installed over an in floor radiant heat system. Cut some lengths of scrap boards to press it tight between the wall until it sets good which is usually about 20 min. Solid hardwood flooring only can be installed on or above ground level with a plywood subfloor.

A random width plank top nailed wood floor with plugs.