How To Installing Hardwood Flooring

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 installing hardwood flooring.

You ll find a number of hardwood flooring options to choose from. Talk to your hardwood flooring retailer and let them know what types of transitions you need. For instance solid hardwood flooring is typically nailed down during installation while tongue and groove engineered flooring is usually clicked together or completely glued down. Now you can install whatever baseboard or shoe moulding you choose and you are finished with this project.

The type of installation you choose will depend on your subfloor budget lifestyle and the type of wood flooring you select. Lastly install any transition or threshold pieces. To learn how to do this watch prepping plywood subfloors. Remove the shoe molding and snap a chalk line 3 8 out from the baseboard this allows for expansion in the hot humid weather and contraction in the colder drier weather of the hardwood flooring.

Join the ends of the boards over a floor joist where possible avoiding joints that form an h. These may be additional items you need to purchase as part of your flooring order. Solid wood flooring is made from one continuous piece of solid wood typically measuring 3 4 inch thick. Hardwood flooring installation is a big project but you can install solid hardwood floors yourself to save money with this step by step video.

Keep joints that line up at least two rows apart.