The hardwood flooring should run perpendicular to the existing floor boards to provide maximum strength and stability.
How to lay oak flooring on floorboards.
Typically old softwood floorboards will be warped and or cupped making the surface irregular and therefore not the best support for your investment.
Then install the first row of flooring with the tongue facing away from the wall and fit in place by using the flooring nailer.
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As time has progressed the need to fit oak flooring into ever changing conditions has increased.
One method to overcome this when laying a solid oak floor would be using the above method of laying out battens.
Use an overlay flooring nailer also caller a porta nailer.
One such area is laying an oak floor over a concrete sub floor.
There are basically two options you can consider.
Depending on the size of your room it should take around two to three days to lay wood flooring although it has to be said that laying a fixed solid floor is a more time consuming task than installing engineered wood.
The solid oak flooring could then be simply nailed or screwed down.
A floating floor is usually laid over a sub floor or over an existing floor after laying the right underlay.
To glue a wooden floor a full coverage of flexible wood adhesive must be applied to the sub floor and the boards.
Before installing a hardwood floor ensure that the existing wooden floor boards are flat level and dry.
Installing solid wooden floors onto plywood.
Hardwood flooring boards either solid wood flooring or engineered wood flooring can be fitted onto existing wooden floor boards.
The results however speak for themselves.
Place 10mm spacers against the wall running parallel with the direction of your installation.