How To Install A Nail Down Bamboo Floor

Always follow your flooring manufacturer s recommendations when choosing between staples and cleats.

How to install a nail down bamboo floor.

Most professional use cleats when installing bamboo floors. New bamboo boards you take from your flooring packages will need to adjust to temperature and position changes for about 3 days before you install them. Step 2 allow bamboo flooring to acclimate. In this article we re going to focus on which janka tests show is the hardest wood flooring on the market by far.

Use this method for solid and engineered if approved by your manufacturer t g bamboo above wood subfloors or concrete subfloors overlaid with a plywood underlayment. The nail down method. Tighten down any loose floorboards or sub flooring and use leveling compound to fill seams in your floorboards. Nail the 1x4s down as a batten boards all the way down the line.

Approximately 70 of tongue and groove floors are nailed down using the blind nailing nail down method which hides the nail holes. Follow these steps to install bamboo flooring on an angle adding a unique twist to a traditional look. Before you install bamboo over plywood the subfloor must be clean and level. Each has its own pros and cons but today we re going to look at the nail down method.

It s also possible to glue or nail down bamboo but those installations are best left to the professionals.