How To Install Wide Pine Flooring

Its easier to install than hardwood.

How to install wide pine flooring.

Wide pine floors are warm luxurious and beautiful if properly installed. We are very excited to get the floors laid. Installing the wide pine boards with a floor stapler. The pine flooring will be attached perpendicular to the joists.

Decide if you want a wide plank floor using the full 6 inch width or if you want to lay 3 inch planks. Pine is not only an attractive and inexpensive flooring choice. Prices for pine vary according to the wood s grade. I love how the pine looks when it scuffs up and also how it yellows from the oil based poly.

It s been a long process anyway we are installing the floors ourselves but have considered hiring someone else to do the staining and poly. We have our pine flooring arriving monday. The saving in labor is significant. Face nailing by using the traditional method of face nailing we believe that this flooring can be installed in a fraction of the time required to toe nail narrow strip hardwood flooring.

Wide plank flooring must be carefully installed to ensure that the floor will not only be beautiful but will have. The thing that i love the most about the wide pine shiplap flooring is how it ages. If you love the look and feel of wood beneath your feet wide plank heart pine flooring is an exciting option. It has two other plusses.

Hairline gaps however are a natural and expected part of the traditional appearance of a wide pine floor. The beautiful part about pine hardwood floor installation is that wood floors can be laid beautifully by an amateur with the proper research and mindfulness. Here s a pic of the craft room floor which we laid a couple years ago lined up with the new hallway flooring. Jason even bought a floor stapler to help with the job my husband really needs no excuse to buy tools in the end it was cheaper to buy a stapler rather than renting one because we worked on the floors over the course of many weekends christmas break.

Our quote includes sanding. It s also easier to install than hardwoods and wears well over the years. It cant quite transport you to the old south but a pine floor will transform your rooms with its soft patina and rich glow.