Face Nailing Needed For 12 Inch Wide Plank Floor

Extremely wide boards 8 to 12 inches wide require three nails instead and boards under 4 inches use one nail.

Face nailing needed for 12 inch wide plank floor. In renovation work most product is staple nail down over wood subfloors. The main purpose of face nailing is to minimize a cupping appearance with wide plank floors. As this prevents the hardwood floor from expanding. When stapling nailing down you only have the fastener holding the edge of the board down.

Regardless if installing a 3 wide engineered hardwood or a 5 wide engineered hardwood plank you are not using any more fasteners despite the increased width. On 8 wide boards you may choose either 2 or 3 nails per row. When installing solid wide plank floors over a plywood subfloor the best method is to apply adhesive to the floorboards blind nail the length of the boards with a pneumatic nailer and face nail when you reach the end of a board. 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.

It just depends on how narrow you indoor humidly range is. A 4 wide plank is still begging to be face pegged as i mentioned also in the article. Regardless of how many nails you choose to use per row you are replicating the method of using hand forged nails hundreds of years ago. On 10 and 12 wide planks use 3 nails per row.

Face nail only the last row if it will be. Which works very well with plank flooring to.