How To Install Used Hardwood Flooring

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How to install used hardwood flooring.

It chronicles tutorials for each step of the process derived from our installation of 3 4 inch solid tongue and groove brazilian walnut hardwoods in our own home. Finish hardwood floor installation. Put the first board up against the mason s line with the groove side facing away from the walls. It provides detailed instructions for installing hardwood flooring over a wood substructure.

Make sure there are no squeaks in the. You may need to use leveling compound to even your surface. Install hardwood floors perpendicular to the floor joists parallel to the longest wall leaving a inch expansion gap around the perimeter. Fit and lock the boards.

How to install a hardwood floor step 1. In short to install a hardwood floor. If the sub floor above is more than 1 inch thick this rule can be bent in many. For your first row you ll want the straightest planks arranged with the tongue side facing.

Estimate and order the materials you need. Check your sub floor condition. Use 1 2 inch spacers to assist in maintaining the 1 2 inch expansion gap between the first row of flooring planks and. Keep joints that line up at least two rows apart.

Minimum requirements are a 3 4 plywood sub floor. It should be level and free from rot and other major defects. As a rule of thumb the floor boards you install should cross perpendicular to the joists under the sub floor. We first ran this article in 2010.

Prepare the subfloor and fasten asphalt laminated kraft paper flooring underlayment to it. Deliver the materials to the site and allow them to acclimate to the room s humidity. Roll out strips. On your first rows you may need to face nail the rows in place with a finish nailer to hold them in place.

At the bottom we provide links to posts on the tools we use and frequently recommend for hardwood. Lay it out in the room and overlap it by 4 6 with every row. Put one 1 2 inch spacer against each wall and slide the end of the board up. Make sure you leave an expansion gap around the edges of the flooring at each wall.

Now you re ready to start installing your flooring. Use a flooring nailer.