Best Way To Nail Last Couple Of Rows

henry0016

What is the best way to nail down the last couple of rows of flooring

Anyone ever use the laminate gun on 3/4 oak

PrecisionFloors

15 or 16 gauge finish nailer...."laminate gun"????

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craigt617

Yes a 15 or 16 guage finish nailer. Then hold nailer at 45 degree angle to floor, shoot into tongue of flooring every 4-6 inches, repeat process until back of nailer almost touches wall. Then place the remaining rows of wood onto floor filling gap to wall (without nailing). Pull rows tight with pry bar,tapping lightly with mallet to pull tighter. Then face nail each row on floor joists (joists having already been marked on wall). Then last row ripped on table saw to desired width(leaving expansion room, but close enough to be covered by trim), then pull last row tight with pry bar and face nailed like the rest.

Floordude

If it is prefinished, use urethane adhesive and glue them. Your asking for the consumer to start nit picking the job, when they see top nail blemishing to a factory finished floor. Prefinished takes a lot of care, not to blemish the finish. Unlike site sand & finish, you don't get to sand out all the boo-boos.

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craigt617

Be careful, and dont use a heavy adhesive. Heavy adhesive drys "rock" hard, and is not pliable enough to allow for expansion and contraction. Not allowing the wood to expand and contract WILL result in the floor buckling. Also read the cure time on back of adhesive and how much is to be used. Using to much adhesive (which contains moisture) with a long cure time, should have weights placed strategically to hold floor in place until cured.

Floordude

Allowing the flooring to gain moisture from a major humidity rise, causes buckling. When I look at a buckled floor, the expansion space is usually still there, with the buckle out in the center of the room.

The expansion space is not there to save the floor, as much as it is to save the structure. It can push walls off the foundation, if the floors take on enough moisture, glued or nailed does not matter.

Ya, don't use liquid nails. Use a premium urethane. PL Premium works great.

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craigt617

Floordude, you may want to look at "hardwood expansion in humid weather? on page 3

Cdat

I work with mostly hard (extremely hard) woods. I predrill holes in the tongue and use a gun or hand drive some nail screws into the second to last boards. I then countersink holes in the last board up near the wall and screw in those boards and plug the holes. The baseboard covers these holes usually but it's always a sign of good workmanship to cover them anyways.

Floordude

Page 3 of what? Ladies Home Journal??

If your fastened down floor, moves ¾ of an inch at the perimeter, your going to have a lot more troubles then you think you will. What is happening to the fastener if it moves ¾?? Your going to be tearing floor out anyway to repair the now loose boards and the gaps that will soon appear when the floor loses the moisture it gained.

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craigt617

floordud page 3 cotractors talk under heading "hardwood expansion in humid weather?" inflooring posts