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| Installing Hardwood Flooring |
| This DIY Basic, brought to you by Lumber Liquidators, will provide tips on installing hardwood flooring. |
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- Hardwood flooring is beautiful, durable, and fairly easy to install, especially if you use tongue-and-groove, prefinished boards.
- To prevent warping and gaps, the flooring needs at least 48 hours in the room to adjust to the temperature and humidity.
- Start by stapling vapor-barrier paper to the sub-flooring.
- The first row should be face-nailed into the floor joists (figure A).
- Leave a 3/8-inch gap along the wall to allow for expansion (figure B).
- Then, the boards can be secured with a flooring pneumatic nail gun.
- Nails go through the tongue every 10 to 12 inches and the groove is then tapped to ensure the boards stay and fit snug (figure C).
- Stagger boards at least six inches to prevent an awkward alignment of end joints (figure D).
- After the last board, the baseboard is nailed in place (figure E).
- One quick install and prefinished hardwood flooring will give you a lifetime of beauty and pleasure.
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- To find the square footage you need, multiply the width of the room by its length. Allow 10-15 percent extra for irregular boards and mistakes.
- If the subflooring squeaks, screw a long drywall screw into the subfloor and joist where the squeak is located.
- Allow at least a four-inch overlap on the vapor barrier paper.
- The pneumatic flooring package can be rented from a rental center for approximately $50 per day. Make sure you get the staples and nails that fit the particular gun you are using because they are all different.
- Brazilian teak is 80 percent harder than oak and you will have a hard time getting the nails through the tongue and you also risk missing and damaging the flooring. The pneumatic tool gets the staples in at a precise 50-degree angle through the tongue. The staples will be covered up by the next piece that comes in.
- For a solid anchor, boards should be laid perpendicular to the floor joists.
- Lay out the boards in a dry run to get right the pattern of shading and random length.
- If the gap for the last board is narrower than the board, cut the board lengthwise to fit the space.
- Stain shoe molding to match flooring.
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