How To Lay The Wood Floor

The proper direction for floorboards can have a big impact on the floor design.

How to lay the wood floor.

Install hardwood floors perpendicular to the floor joists parallel to the longest wall leaving a inch expansion gap around the perimeter. This was our first time installing hardwood floors and i. You can make things easier by using a sander. Keep the lengths random and at least 6 in length.

Wood floor installation requires a level subfloor and that your hardwood flooring is acclimated to the room s humidity and temperature according to the manufacturer s guidelines. How to install vinyl tiles over a wood floor. Join the ends of the boards over a floor joist where possible avoiding joints that form an h. You ll probably need to go over it several times starting with heavier grit sandpaper and progressing to lighter.

Keep joints that line up at least two rows apart. Sand the wood floor make sure it s thoroughly clean and dry until it s as smooth and even as possible with no bumps or rough areas. Use 1 2 inch spacers to assist in maintaining the 1 2 inch expansion gap between the first row of flooring planks and the wall. Put the first board up against the mason s line with the groove side facing away from the walls.

Fortunately powernail sent me their new model 2000f 20ga. When laying out the boards keep in mind to never have the ends of boards in adjacent rows line up with each other. Hardwood flooring installation is a big project but you can install solid hardwood floors yourself to save money with this step by step video. Hardwood floor nailer to test out which they claim is specifically designed to install brittle tongued flooring.

To learn how to do this watch prepping plywood subfloors. Here s how to install click lock engineered hardwood flooring. Below are some considerations you can take in order to achieve the preferred perfect wood floor design. When first installing wood floor in a room you must know which way to lay wood floor.

Before starting calculate the width the last row will be.